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claiming only the Waffen SS (nazi elite) and its off-branches comitted war crimes, while the Wehrmacht comitted very few or none at all. Some might take a step further and defend the moral integrity of the Nazi Germany's army. It sometimes gets even worse when a large group of wehraboos highly experienced at the game, all join 1 team causes an unbalanced one swift one-sided victory for the Axis team Wehraboos are also notorious for always playing on the Axis side of WW2 games and bragging about their faction's "superior weapons and technology" during gameplay. While all Wehraboos generally consider Wehrmachst the most technologically advanced, best-trained and well-disciplined army in military history, many of them also defend the army's failures by blaming it on reasons beyond Germany's control, such as Hitler's terrible disicions, being grossly outnumbered, and poor recource management by the local authorities. There is even a subreddit dedicated for collecting the most cringeworthy Wehraboo material.
Games such as World of Tanks, Day of Infamy and Red Ochestra 2 it was often used as an insult to players playing in the German side.Īs well as in history forums and youtube comment sections for war movies and documentaries
This led to said users being ridiculed, igonred, and regarded as "Wehraboos" ever since.Īn early example can be found in this Steam guide SpreadĪfter the term was coined in War Thunder the slur quickly spread to other pieces of WW2 media: the arguments, which later degraded into flame wars, started in the War Thunder forums in Steam and its official site, and later spread to 4chan /v/ and /k/ boards.Įventually the debates were concluded that War Thunder is indeed a historically accurate but many users refused to back down and continued repeating their claims that the the army of Nazi germany is realistically superior. These complaints have sprouted heated debate about the historical accuracy of the game and the history of the german war machine in general. Shortly after the game's launch, a prominent group of loud players started complaining about imbalance, accusing the Russian develpoer of the game:Gaijin Entertainment that they are applying Russian Bias into the game, making Soviet tanks overpowered, and german tanks unrealistically inferior by comparison. The game features realistic armored warfare on the eastern front set in WW2. the ridicule of it's rabid fans, defenders and apologists wasn't coined until 2013, when the multiplayer game War Thunder was released. Although myths and debates sorrounding the Wehrmacht existed as early as 1945.
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