The Germans in Wonder Woman are not Nazis.
I just saw a troubling comment on a gifset of Antiope and her badass three-arrow stunt shot at the three german soldiers on the beach. I love that moment as much as anyone. However, this comment referred to her ‘killing Nazis’. And those men were not Nazis.
Wonder Woman is set in WW1. Hitler would not come to power for over a decade after WW1 ended. Fascism had not yet become a political force in Europe. In fact, Germany’s treatment as a defeated aggressor instead of as an equal party in the armistice negotiations – and later the Treaty of Versailles – despite the Allies’ equal culpability for the war, directly contributed to the rise of fascism and nationalism in Germany.
Stop calling the German soldiers in Wonder Woman Nazis. One of the greatest tragedies of WW1 is that the soldiers on both sides of the trenches were hungry, young, sick, poor men, who had no stake in the war. This article talks about the experiences (at least early in the war) of both sides on the Western front meeting on no man’s land and finding little difference between one another.
There’s a lot to love about Wonder Woman, and I very much enjoyed it. I also loved the points in the movie when the violence done by Americans and British – such as when Diana speaks to Chief about the death of his people – were addressed as well, but they were brief. The presentation of Germans As The Bad Guys – especially since Aries’ influence was inconsistent as a plot point – has led to people mistakenly reading it as a movie about Nazis, when the Nazis did not exist in 1918. A WW1 setting does not sustain a narrative of one side being ‘heroic’ and the other ‘villainous’, especially if one takes into account the atrocities both sides had committed during the quarter century leading up to the armistice. It troubles me that this movie allows WW1 German soldiers to be read as Nazis.
Please stop referring to Nazis in the context of Wonder Woman.
Worth pointing out just to highlight this fact: the German army in WWI included any number of Jewish soldiers, who considered themselves (and were considered by others, more or less) as German as anybody else. Their military service record didn’t save them from the Nazis a few decades later.
So yeah, WWI German soldiers were not Nazis, kthx.
I thought the movie made it very clear that they were not Nazis. Not a single swastika to be found, no mention of Hitler or any other big name Nazis, and the obvious early 20th century setting. Not to mention Steve Trevor calling it “the Great War,” which was what WWI was called until after it was over.
It’s not the film’s fault that audiences are unable to make use of historical context.
School history classes betrayed me AND MY MOM and none of the cues in the film were enough to make us realise it was WW1. My kid bro who studies stuff on his own knew, though.
The subtitle here mis-translated Kaiser as Fuhrer, as a result, many ppl here are confused about the history background.
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