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The phrase "blood and honor" was used by the Nazis ...
11/04/2005, 19:11:03

    Bones writes:

    ... (in German, of course) and has been used by various neo-Nazi groups, but I think it's use in MM7 is an unfortunate co-incidence. Quite probably the phrase stuck in someone's mind without awareness of its origin.

    The phrase was used to promote 'ethnic purity' and was mostly targeted against the Jews in 1930s Germany. Read more at:

    http://www.holocaustchronicle.org/StaticPages/86.html

    I don't find anything in the M&M series to suggest that JVC or the developers were anti-semitic. There were objections raised about the black cannibals in MM6. NWC made a significant effort in MM7 to make the party characters racially diverse.





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