Posts tagged Nazi Germany
Electric Human Suit
Droll rat, they would shoot you if they knew
Your cosmopolitan sympathies
Germany’s European Mission
(Source: fascisthistory)
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Anti-Nazis Hold Demonstration, Madison Square Garden, New York City, March 15, 1937.
The cathedral of light was a main aesthetic feature of the Nuremberg Rallies that consisted of 130 anti-aircraft searchlights, at intervals of forty feet, aimed skyward to create a series of vertical bars surrounding the audience. The idea was disliked by the Luftwaffe commander Hermann Göring, because the number of searchlights represented most of Germany’s strategic reserve, but Hitler overruled him, suggesting that it was a useful piece of disinformation. “If we use them in such large numbers for a thing like this, other countries will think we’re swimming in searchlights.”
LZ-129 Hindenburg over Olympiastadion, Berlin during the opening ceremonies of the 1936 Summer Olympic Games.
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In documentaries portraying the Third Reich, Hitler is cast as a master magician; these documentaries typically include scenes in which Hitler is speaking at huge mass meetings. (…) Cuts mix Hitler screaming with regiments marching under the sign of the swastika. Instead of providing a translation of his verbal crescendos, the sequence is overlaid with a speaker talking about something different.
All this combines to demonize Hitler as an evil wizard spellbinding an unwitting German people to become his zombified servants until they are liberated from the spell by the Allied victory after which, suddenly, there were no German Nazis left among the populace.
How convenient it would be if this image were correct. National socialism could be defeated with garlic. Watchdog groups could be replaced with a few vampire killers, and resources being directed into anti-racist community programs could be directed at something else. (…)
The truth, however, is that millions of ordinary German workers, farmers and businessmen supported the national socialist program. (…) They were people who probably considered themselves good citizens, which is far more frightening than had they merely been demons.
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