apricops: the tendency for racists and white supremacists to go gaga over their idea of ancient Rome is so darkly hilarious because of how entirely wrong it is. It's not a twisting of some kernels of truth, it's not a misinterpretation, it's just the exact opposite, and people in Western Europe has been doing it for so long. For centuries people in Britain and Germany would be like/have been like "ah yes, we are special and superior because we are the heirs of the superior Romans" while next to a giant pile of writings by respected Ancient Romans who went "god, Britain is a dump and Germany is full of idiot barbarians. I wish I lived somewhere cool and cultured like Syria or Tunisia."
occultbookstores: Someone wrote once that Fascism is Roman bimbofication and that's been living in my head rent-free.
Here's some homework for you: https://piped.video/watch?v=sEjCNzGOe3Q
Well, "the people" were told by the nobility that the nobility was roman descendants and that's why they were supposed to rule over them.
In certain places The Hanseatic League said, "horseshit, we actually make things, what do you do?"
But the lay farmers mostly just went along with it.
So no, modern Germans don't see themselves as Roman, but that was an important part of the lie that propogated feudalism and held power over those peoples for thousands of years.