>>13210412Cornette is obsessed with wrestling history, and probably just thought "Hans Schmidt was great, wrestling has always had nazi heels this will be easy heat".
I think being so deeply entrenched in the wrestling industry since his teens completely cocooned him from actually understanding the extent to which society can be sensitive to a lot of issues. He obviously learned a fair amount through his time in WWE, working with advertisers, and obviously now the podcast where he seems to step into some kind of controversy every month. Considering this was before all that, it really isn't surprising.
