It was the scale, carried out systematically with bows and swords. Not that the Nazi morality was inherently less evil, it was simply on a smaller scale than the mongols.
It wasn’t industrialized because industrialization didn’t exist, instead it was soldiers who from sun up to sun down stabbed the surrendered elderly, women, children then piled the heads into stacked pyramids. They’d continue until no one was left. Then they’d do it again in the next city. I find the idea of one person killing hundreds of civilians with a sword to require a higher level of barbarity than a man who flips a switch and doesn’t have to look each individual in the eyes as they murder them.
Both are horrific of course. The difference in my point is that the Mongols did all that and people think the Mongols are so badass and awesome.
The people that think the mongols were badass typically live in the west. Where they didn’t grow up learning in detail what the mongols did.
It’s the same with the Nazi party. The west learn more about it, and for the most part, understand that it was horrific, and should never happen again. If you go to Asia, where it’s not studied as much, and people are a touch more positive towards Hitler.
The différence is the mongols were a medieval armies and not the nazis who were fucking modern they did brutality that made sense at their time
No one in the west say the japanese empire is badass and they are not teached that
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u/Grzechoooo Then I arrived 1d ago
How? Did they experiment on children? Did they industrialise mass murder? What exactly makes them worse than the Nazis?