LAST EDITED ON Sep-26-15 AT 01:40 PM (EDT)
 
>i have hesitated to comment on this because, by my way of thinking you
>opened that can early on in story and either do not recognize it or
>well there are any number of reasons i guess.

... I did? Hmm. I guess I don't recognize it.

>in a way the decision
>not to tackle retconning some of the big names of the nazi regime is a
>bit disappointing in light of the alt already used but it is
>understandable. the person you did retcon in is the 'least offensive'
>by western standards because he became a hero over here, idol to
>millions and inspiration to generations. at one point myself included.

I can't for the life of me figure out who you're talking about here. The only original witch character I've mentioned in Our Witches at War that I can think of right now who had any connection to Nazi Germany is Heinrikke Knoke, and frankly, if I had remembered the last chapter of I Flew for the Führer when I wrote that episode I'd have found somebody else. I had clean forgotten, at the time, that although a fine aviator and the author of a gripping memoir, Heinz Knoke was also an unrepentant Nazi who ended that memoir with a rant in which he chided the Western democracies for removing civilization's only defense against Bolshevism and predicted that They'd Be Sorry.* (As such, I'm going to assume he's not the one you meant, since I don't know a ton about German politics at the moment, but I can't really see that guy as an idol to millions. Besides, he wasn't a Big Name in the Regime by any stretch.)

Now, Erich Hartmann might fit that description, but a) he wasn't part of the inner circle either and b) I didn't adapt him, Erica's one of the original stars of the show. So presumably he's not who you mean either. As such... yeah. I'm missing something here. Please elaborate, because now you've got me thinking I may have stepped in a gopher hole without noticing.

--G.
*Admittedly, there is precedent in canon. Hans Ulrich Rudel was similarly unreconstructed, a National Socialist to the last, and the witch based on him is a prominent character in the original Strike Witches novels - the ones Ursula Hartmann is from.
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