>>4421538
>Zeon always were space Nazis
They really aren't and people take Gihren as Space Hitler too seriously. The course of the OYW is based on the pacific war, the rivalry between Gihren and Kycilia is a stand-in for the insane IJN-IJA rivalry, Garma's death is a pretty clear commentary on the futility of kamikaze and how they were used for domestic propaganda and Degwin's mix of ultimate responsibility for the war with vague personal pacifism, growing disenchantment with the human cost of the war and effective absence from government despite being the basis of it is very clearly based on Hirohito. There is literally nothing nazi about the beliefs that the Zabis claim to hold, least of all the fact that Degwin is nominally an absolute monarch. The most "extreme" view that they hold is that spacenoids are better because they thrived in a harsher enviroment while the corrupt federation grew fat off the earth as a pleasure planet, which is a propaganda turn around of iirc the federation deporting the poor to the colonies.