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"Side by side, until the end", postcard issued by the National Fascist Party of Italy to promote and strengthen the alliance between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, 1940s https://redd.it/1wat8k5 @r_propagandaposters

"I will personally guarantee that not a single bomb will be dropped on the Ruhr", British postcard quoting Luftwaffe commander Hermann Göring to mockingly contrast the promises of Nazi leadership with reality and undermine German morale, 1940 https://redd.it/1w9u34g @r_propagandaposters

April 1941, Wehrmacht column in the city of Niš, Yugoslavia.

Public reading of Julius Streicher's newspaper Der Stürmer, Worms, Germany, 1935.

Hitler Youth Fanfare A fanfare from members of the Hitler Youth heralds a young people's parade at the Poststadion, Berlin, on National socialist Germany's National Day, 1st May 1936.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐎𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 "We National Socialists are convinced that there is a meaningful relationship to the universe and to creation. We are not irreverent or godless, but rather submit to a higher power. However, we have no intention of trying to approach this higher being through brooding and philosophizing. Instead, we strive to fulfill its laws, that is, the laws of Nature. Nature did not create us as individuals, but as members of a community. This is the insight upon which the worldview of National Socialism is built. It places each individual within the community and obligates them to serve their family, their clan, their people, their race—that is, their fatherland. The individual's obligation culminates in the dedication of their life to this national community. Each living generation is only one link in the chain that begins with the earliest ancestors and continues into the future with subsequent generations. The living bloodbearers of the national community are responsible for the existence and future of the nation. It is therefore to the detriment of an entire people when an individual corrupts their healthy genetic heritage and thereby endangers the survival of their lineage. Everyone has the task and high obligation to ensure the preservation of a valuable genetic stock for their descendants. Only in this way is the future of a people guaranteed." Source: BArch RS 3-17/38 "Die nationalsozialistiche Weltanschauung" Weltanschauliche Schulung, SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division "Götz von Berlichingen" VI Div.St.Qu., den 24.3.1944 p.134

"Food first, then rent"—A joint Nazi-Communist tenants strike against high rents, Berlin, 1932 https://redd.it/1w77qhg @r_propagandaposters

"Comrade Stalin says that with regard to Germany it was necessary to conclude [lit. “enter into”] a half-hearted peace in the form of the Versailles Treaty. Versailles became a half-hearted peace when they began to give privileges to Germany. Such a peace not only stimulated [lit. “promoted the conception of”] the idea of revenge, but also made this revenge possible. It would be possible to conclude a different peace, leaving Germany with its territories, Sudetenland to Czechoslovakia, and Alsace-Lorraine to the French. But this is a very dangerous combination. A third combination is to weaken Germany - take away its industry, disarm its army and thus weaken Germany by 50 years. He, Comrade Stalin, believes that [it is] exactly this combination [that] must be adopted... Comrade Stalin, hardly thinks that England will violate its agreements. America is interested in destroying the industry of Germany and Japan. Germany and Japan have cheap labor. It is difficult to compete with Japan. Japan quickly copies the technical achievements [of others] and has a force of cheap labor. The only way to eliminate Germany and Japan as competitors is to destroy their industry. This is beneficial even to us. Only when we break the Hitlerite government and state, will we, that is the United States, England, and Russia, be in the same camp. He, Comrade Stalin, considers that this is in our general interests. This is his Bolshevik view of this question." “Record of the Conversation of Comrade I.V. Stalin and Comrade V.M. Molotov with the Polish Professor Lange,” May 17, 1944, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, Foreign Policy Archive. Repository 6, Register 6, File 546, Folder 42, Pages 53-70 (f.6, op. 6, p. 42, d. 546, l. 53-70) https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/209831

German World War II propaganda https://redd.it/1w7gert @r_mapporn

Germany, Third Reich - Nuremberg Rally 1938 Military exercises on 'Defense Force Day' at the rally ground: flak fending off a strafing attack.

The third group of our opponents must be looked upon as pathological specimens. They are men who have come at last to understand that the present State and the nation, in the task which has been undertaken and the speed with which this task is being discharged, as well as in the greatness of the general achievement, are entirely beyond the ambit of their obese intelligence and their sluggish will power. Instead of realizing that their existence is now entirely superfluous, they still pray to their old God and implore of Him to cast the future in the mould of the past. As long as they continue to brood over this yearning in quietude we shall have no occasion to disturb their reverie. But if any attempt should be made on the part of these groups, which are associated with one another by common traditions, gradually to express their secret desires in the open, such an attempt shall be suppressed forthwith. The German people do not wish to listen to that music any longer. At one time they venerated the composers of it; but they have no respect for the degenerate successors and petty conductors who strut about like ghosts from the bourgeois past. That world is dead. And the dead should be permitted to rest in peace.If we pass in review all the elements who believe that they cannot be reconciled to the new Germany at any price, then we shall readily arrive at the following conclusions:-1. They are united only on negative grounds: that is to say, they look upon the present State as their common enemy. Otherwise there is not a single idea that unites them.2. What would Germany come to if this motley group should ever regain influence and importance? For many centuries our people were rent asunder, divided by conflicting beliefs and different outlooks on life in general; at first tribal, then dynastic, then religious, finally divergent political opinions and views of life. When we, National Socialists, were carrying on our campaign for the acquisition of power thirty-seven political parties in (Germany were wrangling with one another for popular support. There were two churches and innumerable societies for the promotion of various other beliefs. After a long struggle, which was principally a systematic endeavour to instruct the nation in the principles that govern public life, and after making untold sacrifices, we succeeded in bringing nine-tenths of the people to our way of thinking and in uniting them under one will. The remaining ten percent represent the leavings of the twenty-seven parties, the intractable elements of the religious denominations, the former societies for the promotion of one thing or another; in short, those elements that for centuries were responsible for Germany’s woes by reason of the fact that they kept her divided. When we calmly review the whole situation now and take account of the successful work that has been done for our German Reich during the past few years, then we shall once again have to conclude that the most valuable achievement of all was and is the fact that the movement welded the Germans together in one nation and developed a common will for united action.

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler salutes the Wehrmacht parade in Warsaw following the defeat of Poland 5 October 1939

Japanese In German reich

A Japanese youth delegation on arrival in Cologne, Germany, circa 1935.

“If the bureaucracy defaults in fulfilling its duties the German people will replace it with their own active organisation. With perhaps too great a measure of benevolence, we made it possible for them to maintain a discreet attitude and with the passing of time thus allow certain things to fade into oblivion. We now have the impression that this indulgence was wrongly interpreted. The results which were bound to follow have actually occurred. In pursuing its course the National Socialist State will definitely overcome this danger too. In this connection I may here state categorically that the fight against the domestic enemies of the nation will by no means halt before a formalist and inefficient bureaucracy, for wherever the State bureaucracy shows itself incompetent to solve a problem the German nation will substitute its more vigorous organisation to see that its vital necessities are assured.”For it is a gross mistake to believe that the nation exists for the sake of some formal institution and that if such an institution should prove incapable of accomplishing the tasks laid before it the nation ought to capitulate in face of these tasks.On the contrary: What can be accomplished by the State will be accomplished by the State. But whatever the State, by reason of its structure, is not in a position to accomplish that will be accomplished by the National Socialist Movement.For the State is only one of the organic forms in which the life of the people is expressed. But it is animated and dominated by the immediate manifestation of the national will to live, and this immediate manifestation is the Party and the National Socialist Movement. In certain circles, where eyes are still fondly turned to the past and old experiences held in esteem, the idea may have struck root that, just as former governmentswith their normal machinery of State were not able to cope with Jewish Marxism and its allied phenomena, so the German State of today will have to capitulate because it cannot convince its contemporaries that there are not certain definite problems which are beyond its competence.That is another big mistake. The Party, the State, national economy and administration, are all only means to an end. And the end is the maintenance of the nation. This is the fundamental principle of the National Socialist system. Whatever is manifestly prejudicial to the well-being of the nation must be suppressed. If an institution of State have shown itself incapable of discharging this duty, then it will have to give way to another which will see that the task is carried through. All of us, my Party colleagues and above all you who hold leading positions in the State and the Movement, will be judged one day not by the rectitude of the formalist attitude we adopted but on the grounds of how far we have or have not put our programme successfully into practice. This means that the question will be: how far we have or have not protected and secured the existence of our race and nation. The following principle must especially be insisted upon and carried through in practice with what I may call a devoted fanaticism: namely, that an enemy of the National Socialist State, no matter whether at home or abroad, must not know or discover any person or source in Germany that will agree with him or support him.

Adolf Hitler

Exactly 87 years ago after all peaceful resolutions had been rejected, the Third Reich attacked Poland. This marked the start of the bloodiest conflict Europe has ever seen – the Second World War.

For four months I have calmly watched developments, although I never ceased to give warnings. In the last few days I have increased these warnings. I informed the Polish Ambassador three weeks ago that if Poland continued to send to Danzig notes in the form of ultimata, and if on the Polish side an end was not put to Customs measures destined to ruin Danzig's trade, then the Reich could not remain inactive. I left no doubt that people who wanted to compare the Germany of to-day with the former Germany would be deceiving themselves. An attempt was made to justify the oppression of the Germans by claiming that they had committed acts of provocation. I do not know in what these provocations on the part of women and children consist, if they themselves are maltreated, in some cases killed. One thing I do know - that no great Power can with honour long stand by passively and watch such events [...] In this I will take the necessary measures to se that they do not contradict the proposals I have already made known in the Reichstag itself to the rest of the world, that is to say, I will not war against women and children. I have ordered my air force to restrict itself to attacks on military objectives. If, however, the enemy thinks he can form that draw carte blanche on his side to fight by the other methods he will receive an answer that will deprive him of hearing and sight. This night for the first time Polish regular soldiers fired on our territory. Since 5.45 A.M. we have been returning the fire, and from now on bombs will be met by bombs. Whoever fight with poison gas will be fought with poison gas. Whoever departs from the rules of humane warfare can only expect that we shall do the same. I will continue this struggle, no matter against whom, until the safety of the Reich and its rights are secured. – Address by Adolf Hitler before the Reichstag, September 1, 1939.👨

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