>>5243776Unironically this. The National Socialists had the moral high ground. After all, the German people were objectively culturally and physically superior. The music, the literature, the architecture, the clothing, the attention to detail in every aspect of life. They were clearly superior in terms of their physical aesthetic (blonde hair and blue eyes). Their claim on Europe was in that sense justified.
However, they dressed their officers in Hugo Boss leather jackets and hats with skulls on them. The main symbol of the National socialists was a giant red flag with a bizarre occult symbolism in the middle. They preached a violent rhetoric from the podium, even after the seizure of power. The goose-stepping soldiers of the SS will always be remembered for their ruthlessness, even if their cause of a pan-Germanic Europe and a removal of the Jewish parasite was justified in the long term.
Had Hitler been replaced with a “friendlier” face after 1933, toned down the violent rhetoric, reduced the ostentation of their marches, and rebranded their military to appear less menacing it would have given them a lot more support from foreign governments and peoples who, whether deservedly or not, perceived Hitler and the National socialists as bloodthirsty warmongers.
