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I don't want to put myself in the position of advocating for anyone here, but I would like to respond to the point about providing alternative explanations.

I have no idea why someone would name their server "Wolfsschanze", if it was something more ambiguous like "Wolfpack" I could understand. I've named servers silly things in my time, but even then it's something short and simple, like "foo box", I've never been tempted to call one "Vergeltungswaffe" for example. But I admit that there may be a reasonable explanation of which I am not aware.

As for the revisionism, I think it's fair to say that the allies rejected some peace offerings from Germany. What's not true is the implication that this can be used to shift blame, since the peace offers were either unreasonable or untrustworthy (see e.g. Hess's flight to the UK). That the Germans were forced into war is something that I have never heard credible support for (unless you believe in "shrinking markets"), but this may simply be an error on the part of the writer, rather than part of a cohesive and harmful worldview.

Adding up these possible indications of Nazi sympathies does change my Bayesian beliefs, but (perhaps from an excess of intellectual humility) I'm still far below the threshold to confidently make an accusation.



> I have no idea why someone would name their server "Wolfsschanze"

Maybe because they are a nazi and/or an edgelord? Are we looking for the most charitable interpretation or the most likely?

> but this may simply be an error on the part of the writer, rather than part of a cohesive and harmful worldview.

Have you read the whole message? The worldview seems pretty cohesive to me. As a German you simply don't make such "errors" about WW2.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for giving people the benefit of the doubt, but sometimes you just need to call a spade a spade.




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