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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.

Mattias Gardell (2003)

(Source: Wikipedia)

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gatic: theblahinspirations: gatic: William Light’s original vision was for an Adelaide built in the style of his home of Moscow. This painting made by him shows what is now the Montefiore road Bridge over the Torrens Lake. In the centre is the Holy Trinity Church and the land the red walled structure sits upon is now occupied by UniSA. William Light was inspired to build Adelaide in this style after his trip there in 1780, meeting Tsar Nicholas whose family was later killed by the Bolsheviks. Lenin was there too. This was the first year that Pravda was published, with the cover of the newspaper a copy of this painting of a prospective Adelaide which was then proclaimed by the Tsar to be a satellite city of Moscow. It is important to look at our history in Adelaide as it lets us know more about the present and the future and occasionally (but not always) the past.Thanks to Flutterknife for the picture. As beautiful as this is I don’t think, Ahh Who am I kidding this is so freakin awesome, Also! How could he have painted this? it has buses in it, LOL. William Light also invented buses. The correct answer is that those are not buses. In Colonel Light’s original plans, those small airships were to be tethered to the ground, enabling the city to be lifted into geosynchronous orbit over Russia. Tsar Nicholas took being a “satellite city” of Moscow seriously. In fact, this is not a painting at all, as William Light constructed that scale model single-handed (with the one he wasn’t using to chisel Elder Hall) to demonstrate his latest invention of colour photography. This was the first image uploaded to the internet, and would not be seen for over two hundred years — until DARPA was able to connect to the internet and the CSIRO had redeveloped his PNG file format (the photo was not digital, so Light had to eyeball it and encode by hand). If Ilya Muromets had arrived in time to save Tsar Nicholas Romanov’s life, Adelaide would not still be in South Australia today. If the Russians had had it as a flying weapons platform, Japan would have lost the Russo-Japanese War and Katamari Damacy would never have been made. Perhaps it was for the best that these dreams never became a reality.

gatic:

theblahinspirations:

gatic:

William Light’s original vision was for an Adelaide built in the style of his home of Moscow. This painting made by him shows what is now the Montefiore road Bridge over the Torrens Lake. In the centre is the Holy Trinity Church and the land the red walled structure sits upon is now occupied by UniSA.

William Light was inspired to build Adelaide in this style after his trip there in 1780, meeting Tsar Nicholas whose family was later killed by the Bolsheviks. Lenin was there too. This was the first year that Pravda was published, with the cover of the newspaper a copy of this painting of a prospective Adelaide which was then proclaimed by the Tsar to be a satellite city of Moscow.

It is important to look at our history in Adelaide as it lets us know more about the present and the future and occasionally (but not always) the past.
Thanks to Flutterknife for the picture.

As beautiful as this is I don’t think, Ahh Who am I kidding this is so freakin awesome,

Also! How could he have painted this? it has buses in it, LOL.

William Light also invented buses.

The correct answer is that those are not buses. In Colonel Light’s original plans, those small airships were to be tethered to the ground, enabling the city to be lifted into geosynchronous orbit over Russia. Tsar Nicholas took being a “satellite city” of Moscow seriously.

In fact, this is not a painting at all, as William Light constructed that scale model single-handed (with the one he wasn’t using to chisel Elder Hall) to demonstrate his latest invention of colour photography. This was the first image uploaded to the internet, and would not be seen for over two hundred years — until DARPA was able to connect to the internet and the CSIRO had redeveloped his PNG file format (the photo was not digital, so Light had to eyeball it and encode by hand).

If Ilya Muromets had arrived in time to save Tsar Nicholas Romanov’s life, Adelaide would not still be in South Australia today. If the Russians had had it as a flying weapons platform, Japan would have lost the Russo-Japanese War and Katamari Damacy would never have been made. Perhaps it was for the best that these dreams never became a reality.

(Source: gatic, via gatic)

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