How Naruto looks to justify the holocaust by Nazi Germany
If you are a Naruto fan then I apologise in advance. I do not hate on the manga, in fact I myself am a huge fan. I am just sharing with you some observations about the popular series.
Any casual fan of Naruto would have understood from the title that I am talking about the Uchiha massacre. The Uchihas, much like the Jews of Nazi Germany were overachievers. For that very reason, they were hated by a bigoted section of the population. Just as there were certain Jews who supported Hitler, Itachi when against his own clan and supported Danzo via his actions. This is where the two histories diverge.
Unlike Hitler who lost the war, the Senju and their allies won it. The Nazis were rightfully demonized as one the worst villains in history. But the Senjus were different. The word of a brainwashed 13 year old Itachi was accepted by most readers as the truth. The Uchiha were dangerous and had to be eliminated. Any surviving Uchiha with a legitimate grouse was portrayed as short-tempered and irrational, thereby justifying the Genocide. Meanwhile, most Senjus were portrayed as the heroes of the Shinobi world. Even Danzo was later shown as simply being ‘misunderstood’. Good and evil was clearly demarcated and every reader accepted it. No questions of morality were entertained in the surviving Senju or the reader.
All this brings me to a sobering conclusion. Even in fiction, as in real life, history is written by the victor. They are the ones who people root for, morality be damned.

A dying tree stood near my childhood home, branches dry as bone. Surrounded by greenery, it endured, bearing testament to the power of