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This is just a weird, though pretty common nitpick, but I'll bite. The pilots he downed were actively fighting for a nazi state. They might have not been nazis themselves, but they were still fighting to spread nazi ideology. It wouldn't matter even if literally no german pilots were actually ideologically nazis, if they were still flying planes and combat missions in hopes of a victory for their side (nazi germany).

>>mardif+(OP)
> They might have not been nazis themselves ...

Perhaps surprisingly large numbers of the military did not support the Nazi ideals.

High ranking members of the military failed to assisinate Hitler several times.

The specific "nitpick" is that the pilot and crew were very likely to not be actual literal Nazis.

That's just history .. the point of current interest now is the question of whether niche ideologies can take over a state and take it to war on the global stage.