Every so often I got a comment along the lines of "why don't you do any WW2 stuff with your Character's?" I normally would've ignored that, but I feel I need to get something off my chest.

Over the years I've been growing uncomfortable with Fritz and Sophia. It's not because I felt they were bad, but because of what they were saying to people about me. I looked at the pictures with WW2 German regalia on, even though they didn't have swastikas or SS sig runes, and wondered to myself "what the fuck am I doing?" The past couple years in real-life especially made me question that.

I am a big military dork and the first conflict I got into was WW2. I was into learning about the weapons, tactics, vehicles, battles, and such that it became an obsession. As a result, I got into WW2 German history from that angle. Even then I knew Nazism was horrible, but in my mind I was making a big distinction between the tenets/ideology of Nazism and the military stuff.

However, over the years I became more aware how foolish that distinction was. Those things I became obsessed over came with an image of terror to people that were victims of the Nazi regime. The black and white Baltic cross, the Stahlhelm, even the look of Wehrmacht uniforms, can scare people as easily as a Swastika.

It was also foolish because I created an false image that the Wehrmacht wasn't complacent in the Third Reich's terror, that it was just a tool. However, the more I read, the more I understood that the division wasn't there or at least it was more grey. Yes there are plenty of Wehrmacht personnel that hated Nazism and weren't in the ranks because of it. However, there plenty that did and had no qualms participating in the goals of that regime, especially on the Eastern Front.

I remember having a conversation once with someone years ago about this and she stated something that sticks with me. When you look at what happened in the Holocaust, alot of it wasn't possible without the success of the Wehrmacht. Auschwitz, Treblinka, and other death camps wouldn't have been able to be built without the Wehrmacht's success. The unfortunate Jews, gypsies, and others in France, Poland, Russia and elsewhere wouldn't have been feed into the camps unless the Wehrmacht was good at winning a military campaign.

Essentially, even if it wasn't built as a Nazi organization, it was able to facilitate that campaign of terror. Even if they donned the feldgrau uniform and hated Nazis, those soldiers nevertheless allowed The Third Reich to exist. To those were victims of the regime, were families of the victims, or anyone really, that distinction I had in my head before doesn't exist. To be frank, they're not wrong in thinking that.

That's why I haven't commissioned WW2 stuff that much lately. I felt uncomfortable doing so and I don't want to give the impression that I supported that ideology. Don't get me wrong, I'm still a military dork and will still engage in that, but I'm going to stay away from WW2 for awhile.

Fritz and Sophia are not going to go away, but I am going to be doing other stuff with them. I'm even at the point of ditching Fritz as my main fursona and starting from a clean slate with someone else. I'm not sure yet.

Anyway, I needed to get that off my chest.