Oh joy, this again...Here we go...



You, OP, really think: any/every Wehrmacht soldier = Nazi?



Does that mean that you think every US soldier was a Democrat (as in Democratic Party, FDR's party, just to be oh-so clear)?



That every Red Army soldier was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, wildly eager to spread the revolution around the world?



Military service and politics are two very, VERY different matters. Militaries are organizations for structuring and maintaining combat power for use by nations. In most cases that means that a military is ultimately subservient to the political authority of a nation. That does not mean that the military is supposed to be reflective of the nation's political leadership: a military is an implement to enforce a nation's will as directed by the political authority. It is not the place of a military to support, oppose, or represent the opinions of political leadership because the military's function, its purpose, is to follow orders. It is exceedingly foolish of you to think that every soldier in the German military during WWII shared the opinions of the Nazi Party. Conscription was in use at that time which means all eligible men were required to serve in the military regardless of whatever opinions they may have had about the political leadership.



Here's Anton Strasser's in-game bio:

"Strasser marched off to his first war in 1939, as a soldier in the German army invading Poland, followed by a stomp through France in 1940 and a charge into Russia in 1941. But that led to him almost freezing to death, fighting General Winter and the Red Army equally hard for his life. In 1942 Stalingrad loomed, victories ended and disillusion set in. At Gumrak airfield, he was severely concussed, but lucky. Flown out, comatose, into the waiting arms of one Hans Volter, he was quietly spirited away to Volter's lab as a wonderful subject for cryogenic tests. There he stayed, frozen and forgotten, until accidentally released by an outbreak. Bewildered, he had one brief chance to kill Volter but didn't take it. Much to his regret when he found out what was going on."



Pay close attention to that last sentence. Does Strasser sound like someone who would join Hans Volter to fulfill his schemes or defy him? What should be obvious from the bio is this: Anton Strasser is a man who has been pulled out of time and deprived of his life and all that he knew. Awakening, he's confronted by his captor wreaking widespread havoc and suffering upon the world with monstrous abominations. Strasser chose to fight that. The fact of his Wehrmacht service adds a twist to the narrative to emphasize Strasser's great courage, laudable convictions, and his overall character: a man pressed to obey a genocidal regime in a former life now has an opportunity to combat a Nazi remnant and save the world and he has SEIZED it. His clear lack of sympathy for Hans should be a definite indication that Strasser does not affiliate or identify with what Hans represents.



Furthermore it's ridiculous to think that a legitimate American business would promote such heinous ideas and notions as espoused and promoted by the Nazi Party during the 1930s and 1940s, or the actions taken by the Nazi government before and during WWII, by creating a player character representing and glorifying the aforementioned.



In summary, just so you are not mistaken, OP:

1. Militaries and the individuals serving in them are not 1:1 representations of their political leadership or the opinions those politicians express.



2. Strasser, as a player character, is meant to be relatable to users and as such would not be representative of an extremist ideology such as Nazism and promote it. Further, no respectable business would even think of creating such a player character.



Contemplate that.