Will saw the WWI German propaganda his father brought back, and after the massacre in Tulsa he probably bought into the message. I don't think he's an actual Nazi, but in the late 1930's he's seeing the rise of the Nazi party in Germany and he's interested in their vision. Before WWII a lot of Americans were impressed/enamored with the "turnaround" Germany was experiencing.
no. There was no indication will fed into any Nazi ideology. He watched the bombing of Tulsa. He fought KKK member. Nah that's not it. I can't accept that. Maybe he said those things publicly... To get people off the trail, but it still doesn't make sense. Peteypedia mentions that Owls book was mostly bullshit.
I thought it was Nazism at first too, but someone pointed out to me after the first episode that it was WW1, prior to Nazism in Germany.
If you look at how him jumping out the window to escape the KKK got turned into him breaking in through the window to stop a robbery, you can see how facts can get distorted through time and perspective, all the way to their inverse. Will's sole heirloom from his KKK-murdered father was a piece of German propaganda-literature about the relative equality in Germany for people of color. During the rise of Nazism, he might've made an offhand remark that echoed his understandably cherished piece of propaganda. I'm not an expert on the history -- either in the specifics of the Watchmen-verse or our own -- but even something like
Jesse Owens in the '36 Olympics in Berlin could've shaped his worldview or prompted a comment about the hypocrisy of America that eventually got warped into "So you love Nazis, huh, HUH?!?!".
He definitely wasn't a Nazi. He was a victim of heinous, systemic, omnipresent racial violence with an emotional attachment to a piece of not-inaccurate not-Nazi German propaganda and an extremely justifiable anger towards white America. One reflexive response calling out the bullshit in America's distaste for the treatment of German Jews in the early days under Hitler could've easily been twisted to frame his entire legacy.
Damn I remember that one too. Fine alright I'll follow you
set your expectations low that's all I got in there