Van Lente Confirms Nazis Will Appear in 'Captain America: The First Avenger' - ComicsAlliance | Comics culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews

Great news! Nazis will be a part of the Captain America movie. I was really concerned the fight against the Nazis defined World War II and the creation of the character! Turns out that Hydra will be part of the Third Reich! This is a good thing and makes me think the movie will be even better than I originally thought.

However! In support of his Captain America: First Vengeance, a free-to-read digital comics prelude to the events of The First Avenger, Fred Van Lente gave an interview to Newsarama in which the film's apparent downplaying of Nazis was directly addressed.

It is not some kind of rewriting of world history. There are Nazis in the movie, I've read the script. It is not trying to pretend that the Nazis didn't exist, or that World War II didn't happen the way we all know it from history.

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Van Lente Confirms Nazis Will Appear in 'Captain America: The First Avenger' - ComicsAlliance | Comics culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews

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