#World War II: Nazi Germany

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Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.

That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore.

They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?

A.R. Moxon, Essayist and Author

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Ukrainian slave labourers kidnapped by the Nazis - Ostarbeiter - with their hands behind their backs, being paraded past local German women.

Photograph taken between 1941 and 1945.

Hitler classed Slavic people as "subhuman", and millions were kidnapped for slave work in Germany. Up to three-quarters of the Ostarbeiter were taken from Ukraine, and by 1943 the Nazis were taking children as young as ten.

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Himmler with his commanding officers observes a Latvian Grenadier SS Pak crew training on the edge of a forest clearing in 1943.

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Dunkirk (2017, Christopher Nolan)

22/11/2024

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On this day in 1944, heartless Winston Churchill refused a ceasefire and continued the genocidal attack on Nazi Germany.

As we well know now, far more German civilians have died in the war, which makes them the victims and Britain the war criminal.

The best time for a ceasefire is before you launch a barbaric, sadistic terrorist attack. Those who instigate wars aren't entitled to a "time out."

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Demonstrators protesting Germany's attempt to annex Sudetenland (a part of Czechoslovakia) march through the throngs of Times Square tourists, September 27, 1938.

Photo: Marty Lederhandler for the AP

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Hands off! Every dud is life-threatening! German WW2 poster - 1944.

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By early 1939, Hitler had reached a turning point: his foreign policy of gathering in Germans had succeeded in Czechoslovakia and Austria, and his attempts to recruit Poland for an eastern war had failed. He had rearmed Germany and extended its borders as far as possible without war. The annexation of Austria had brought in six million more citizens but also the bulk of the Czechoslovak armaments industry, perhaps the best in the world at the time. In March 1939 Hitler destroyed Czechoslovakia as a state, thus removing any illusions that his goals were limited to ethnic Germans. The Czech lands were added to the Reich as a “protectorate”; Slovakia became a nominally independent state under Nazi tutelage. On 21 March, the Germans tried to intimidate the Poles into an arrangement, and were again rebuffed. On 25 March Hitler gave the instructions for the Wehrmacht to prepare for an invasion of Poland. (..) Stalin could see, as he later put it, that he and Hitler had a “common desire to get rid of the old equilibrium”. In August 1939 Hitler responded to Stalin’s opening. Hitler wanted his war that year; he was far more flexible about the possible allies than about the issue of timing. If the Poles would not join in a war against the Soviet Union, then perhaps the Soviets would join in a war against Poland. From Hitler’s perspective, an accord with Moscow would prevent a complete encirclement of Germany if the British and French did declare war after the coming German attack on Poland. On 20 August 1939, Hitler sent a personal message to Stalin, asking him to receive Ribbentrop no later than the twenty-third. Ribbentrop made for Moscow, where, as both Orwell and Koestler noted, swastikas adorned the airport of the capital of the homeland of socialism. (..) The two regimes immediately found common ground in their mutual aspiration to destroy Poland. Once Hitler had abandoned his hope of recruiting Poland to fight the Soviet Union, Nazi and Soviet rhetoric about the country were difficult to distinguish. Hitler saw Poland as the “unreal creation” of the Treaty of Versailles, Molotov as its “ugly offspring”. Officially, the agreement signed in Moscow on 23 August 1939 was nothing more than a nonaggression pact. In fact, Ribbentrop and Molotov also agreed to a secret protocol, designating areas of influence for Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union within eastern Europe: in what were still the independent states of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania.

Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

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SS Guard in Canal, 1945 Lee Miller

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Nazi soldiers cross the border into Ukraine during Operation Barbarossa - the invasion of the Soviet Union - in 1941.

Millions of Ukrainians died fighting against the Nazis, and millions more were abducted into slavery. The slaves were known as the Ostarbeiter. X

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Since I posted the information about AH being on the cover of Time magazine. Quite a few nazis made it there as well. Including Himmler and Heydrich. Time magazine, back in the day, was never afraid to show the atrocities, really. Pretty language was typically used so as not to offend the American sensibilities of the period.

It wasn't until the 70s that anyone really swore on TV and even that was rare. 7 words you can't say on tv, George Carlin.

In 1981 Saturday Night Live had a massive firing for the instance of one swear word.

Anyway, Himmler and Heydrich were/are considered the worst of the worst from WWII. For good reason. Many of the actions taken by one or both the men caused the deaths of literal millions.

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German submarine U-278 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II

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Located at the Smithsonian Institution Udvar-Hazy center, is this Focke-Wulf Fw 190, otherwise known as the Würger. It is a single pilot WWII aircraft developed in Nazi Germany, by designer Kurt Tank. It's first flight was on the 1st of June, 1939. It was retired in 1945.