I don't believe it is a horrible thought. We aren't advocating the Nazi regime any more than you are advocating the Soviet Union when you play the Soviet campaign on Red Alert, or play as the Viet Cong on Battlefield.
I am not doing this because I have some fanatical obsession with the Nazi party or because I believe they should have won. I have a grandmother who was in London during the blitz and a grandfather who grew up in occupied Holland so I hardly think that is fair!
It is meerly for the interest factor, the Wehrmacht troops were just as human as the Allied troops and they are someone elses Grandfather too. They aren't all in the German army because they are hard core party members, most were just doing their duty to their country, they didn't have a choice in the matter. I had also contemplated making a level about being in the German resistance but I didn't have enough info on it so abandoned the idea.
I am NOT a neo-nazi!
Is there anything wrong with playing the French under Napoleon when they tried to take over Europe too, no, so why is this so much different?
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