Am I the only one who when looking at the events before and during Skyrim can't help but draw similarities between Ulfric Stormcloak and Adolf Hitler? I assume this was intentional.

- Ulfric was a soldier in the great war whose country was done great injustices by the victors. Bans on Talos worship being the key issue.
Hitler, on the other hand, was a soldier in the great war whose side surrendered and was forced into the War Guilt Clause and various other unfair cruelties. The War Guilt Clause is the White-Gold Concordate.

- Hitler is not initially a great political force but eventually gathers to himself followers. These followers are initially fool hardy and attempt to get what they want overtly and directly and are locked in prison for it. Ulfric gathers a small force and uses the Markarth battles to be given the right to Talos worship. He is imprisoned for this, however.

- Hitler later gains the love of a scorned people and is legally given his early seat of power while Ulfric is, by right, Jarl of Windhelm and the people there adore their forceful ruler.

- In the next step in both their rises to power things get sketchy. Hitler seizes the seat of Chancellor, though under strange and unconventional processes. Ulfric, legally or not, kills the High King and should technically seize the Throne.

- When they begin their military compaigns many nearby states almost instantly submit to their rule, the Jarls for Ulfric and Austria and Czechoslovakia for Hitler.

- Both make an agressive move then, on a state that does not want their rule. Both believe that removing this state will help in their goal of defeating a greater enemy. Whiterun must be invaded to defeat Solitude, Poland must be invaded to defeat Britain.

- The racism that the Stormcloak Nords are so famous for. The Nords blame the elves for their situation while the Germans blamed the Jews.

- Grey District and racism to outsiders in Skyrim bear resemblance to the Jewish Ghetto and racism to outsiders in Germany.

I was reading a few posts by, I assume, Stormcloak supporters in a few threads, that got derailed into civil war discussions (rather quickly I might add), and I was reminded of this by the arguments used by the Stormcloak supporters.

Why?

Why would you do this?

I don't bother with Skyrim politics or the Civil War debate but even I think this is...wow. I really doubt Bethesda had the Nazi Germany rise in mind when creating Skyrim...

No offense.

No one said anything about "... Nazi Germany rise". They do seem to be loosely based on the Third Reich though.

Nationalism and hostility toward outside influence are pretty common issues throughout history. I'm not really seeing any direct parallels to Germany and WW2.

This.

Besides, it's fantasy fiction , you could relate it with anything you want to spike your imagination while playing a game.

Oh Talos. The Stormcloaks will have a fun day with this.

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Why. Dear talos why.

I think this will be locked but I wonder by which mod.

Yes, because all the similarities I pointed out can all be found throughout known history (I can't think of any other event). Sorry but I don't believe in this type of coincidence.

Well that's what it is. The Stormcloaks simply are NOT inspired by the Third Reich. That is totally and utterly wrong. Why would Bethesda make a game where one of the factions was inspired by the greatest evil we've ever known. How disrespectful would that be? How stupid would that be?

I've often seen threads closed by "Godwin's Law", but this is the first time I've seen one opened by it !

A closer parallel would be Scotland's war of independence, not Nazi Germany.