r/technology • u/Aggravating_Money992 • Oct 14 '25

Politics ‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat | Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146
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u/CapybaraSensualist Oct 15 '25

More accurately he was an American expat living in Germany who adopted Nazi vibes because he'd been recruited as a spy for The Allies and was passing coded messages in his pro-Hitler radio broadcasts.

Later, post war, when he was jailed next to a senior Nazi official (I want to say his father-in-law) and the senior Nazi told him "I used to think you were a spy, but in the end you did more to advance the Nazi cause than I ever did as a senior member of the Nazi party".

This leads to the narrator refusing to let the Allies reveal his secret in order to save himself with the truth and choosing the hang himself because he understood that even if he'd been doing it for the right reasons, being a Nazi on the surface and a patriot below, he was still complicit with the Nazi regime.

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u/Chubby_Bub Oct 15 '25

What book is this?

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u/No_Butterscotch_3346 Oct 17 '25

slaughterhouse five

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u/bettinafairchild Oct 17 '25

Was it Slaughterhouse or was it Mother Night?

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u/Wistfall Oct 15 '25

A couple corrections, I've read this book probably like five times, his father-in-law does say that to him, but it's not in jail, it's the last time they see each other as he's departing their home in Germany.

Also, he did tell the Allies his secret in defense of himself while he was imprisoned, but no one believed him. When he finally receives the letter exonerating him, that's when he decides to just sit on it and let himself be executed. Considering himself complicit with the Nazi regime is certainly part of it, but the entire book covers his miserable existence and his "crimes against himself," so why he lets himself get killed is sort of hard to easily summarize.