Started playing it yesterday and it’s set in not-WW2 where you fight for the good germans that are dutch people whose kinkade-esque homeland is in the baltics because the evil soviet empire nazis want to invade the not-NATO that is also straight up the Hansa. Could you not have picked a different war for this
I can kind of see why writers would keep writing stories like that. It’s more satisfying narratively if the hatred is motivated by something tangible other than just prejudice. Making the oppressed group secretly powerful in some way might also be an empowerment thing depending on the story
Usually it feels like it is to excuse past atrocities unfortunately, like a “yeah bad things happened in the past, but we all need to just move on.” I usually see it in very white liberal stories about prejudice, not often Japanese writers though.