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What do people think of Hans-Joachim Marseille ? In case people don't know who he is. Hans-Joachim Marseille was a German fighter ace who has claimed 158 Allied aircraft (most of them against British aircraft in Africa, making him the top scoring ace against the RAF). He was killed in 1942 at the age of 22.
However, I'm not here to discuss whether his kills are exaggerated or not, but rather he is often described as "openly anti-Nazi" and biographers write how he had disdain for Nazism and authoritarianism (despite the fact that he willingly chose to join the Luftwaffe). There some supposed details of him showing his anti-Nazi side.
However, I'm not 100% sure whether these are true and I'm being very cautious, could the biographers be trying to keep his reputation as squeaky clean as possible? Or was he genuinely anti-Nazi? It's very difficult to determine Hans-Joachim Marseille's true beliefs partly because he was killed at such a young age and very early in his career. But I think it's not a bad idea to assume that he was probably more sceptical of the Nazis than a lot of his more noted Luftwaffe counterparts were.
Which comes to my other point. Wehraboos have largely ignored Hans-Joachim Marseille but constantly wet themselves over Erich Hartmann or dare I say, Hans-Ulrich Rudel - who was a dedicated and full blown Nazi and just as fanatical as Hitler was. Rudel remained a Nazi throughout his life, constantly supporting Neo-Nazi organizations and parties and supported war criminals in escaping justice. He made no attempt to atone for his past, he boasted about it and he remained a rabid Nazi right to the very end. Meanwhile Erich Ha
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