Going to try to use my big platform or whatev to point out that this post is still up after 8 hours and the replies are absolutely swarming with Nazi apologists who are defending the Hyena of the Gestapo. Public historians have a responsibility not to celebrate people like this.
https://twitter.com/OnThisDayShe/status/1411943957072912389
And yes, it is clearly celebratory. When someone tortured people for the Gestapo you lead with that. That is the thing about them. Everything g else is background colour. Pretending otherwise emboldens fascists, and the replies here are testament to that fact.
If you say you want to prove that women don't always have to be good, fine, but you then frame the post around how this woman was a fascist and tortured people. You do not do a friendly little write up about her and occlude what she did.
Were I this account I would grapple with what I had done here and own it. Were I you and saw this and the recalcitrance about apologising I would not follow this account or buy their weird book which presumably has lots more Nazi girl bosses for you to stan or whatever.
They have taken it down, which is good. I find their apology lacking. They have asked us to "judge them on their record" and their glossy posts about Coco Chanel haven't changed my mind at all, personally. However at least the deleted it I guess.
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