#third reich

[chernobog13]

Superman battling the Third Reich by Jerry Ordway.

[sternenstaube]

why is US WW2 propaganda SO OBSESSED with Mr. H's ass?😭😭 It amuses me to no end but it's also so ??

[cutecountryballs]

NOOO! THE BABIES!!!

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[ikarus-angel]

HAVE YOU HEARD-

Reich when Poland breaks into his house (!!!!he's homophobic!!!!)

Reich is also homophobic, he just keeps going "Please, it's not homosexual to [graphically describes violently making out with Soviet]!"

Guys, calm down, it's all about power! Not MEN!

[deutschland-im-krieg]

Heinrich Hoffmann and Hitler, location and date unknown. Hoffmann was Hitler's personal photographer for more than 20 years. Image possibly courtesy of putschgirl

[thomasthetankieengine]

A little known fact is that if apas-95 doesn't make dumb and ahistorical comparisons to the Nazis at least once a month, she will die.

[1five1two]

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Five thousand New Yorkers gathered in Columbus Circle in a mass demonstration against the persecution of Jews and Catholics by Germany, November 16, 1938. The crowd heard denunciations of the Third Reich from several speakers, including Nathan Frankel, Labor Advisor to Mayor La Guardia, and Orson Welles.

Photo: Associated Press

[fraumagdagoebbels]

Joseph Goebbels and his wife together with Adolf Hitler at a state event.

[ciaheyhimm]

The Two Ministers: Galeazzo Ciano and Joachim von Ribbentrop

Probably the one of the two most interesting figures. Since I make researches mostly on Fascist Italy, it was intriguing to read Galeazzo Ciano's perspective and thoughts on Joachim von Ribbentrop, his German colleague Minister. One thing is certain: both men didn't like each other. It was a huge despise from both parties. Ciano thought of Ribbentrop as a "too cynical and suck up" kind of man. Meanwhile, Ribbentrop considered Ciano as a "hiding traitor, playing the double-agent role for the democratic countries". Fun fact: Galeazzo Ciano's diaries were used by the Allies as a proof against Joachim von Ribbentrop in the Nuremberg Trials.

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On May 22, 1939, the Kingdom of Italy and Nazi Germany entered into the Pact of Steel signed by their respective Foreign Ministers Galeazzo Ciano and Joachim von Ribbentrop. This agreement was greeted with great enthusiasm by the press: "unfailing friendship between our two peoples." Ciano wrote in his diary, a few days after his execution in January 1944: "The tragedy of Italy began in August 1939. On my own initiative, I went to Hitler's headquarters in Salzburg and was suddenly confronted with the cold and cynical Germanic determination to provoke the conflict. The alliance between Italy and Germany had been signed in May. I had opposed it, making every effort to delay such a step, or at least make it ineffective. There was no reason, on the other hand, in my opinion, to bind oneself for life and death to the fate of Nazi Germany. I had favored, it is true, a policy of cooperation, because of our geographic location, because we can and should detest, but not ignore that eighty million Germans brutally burden the heart of Europe. The decision to cement the alliance was made suddenly by Mussolini, while I was in Milan with Ribbentrop. Several American newspapers had published that the Lombard metropolis had welcomed the Reich Foreign Ministry with blatant hostility, and this was evidence of Mussolini's diminished personal prestige. He was in a state of rage. By telephone he ordered me to accept the German demands for an alliance, which I had held in abeyance for more than a year and hoped to send off again. Thus was born the "Pact of Steel." This decision, which was then to have such a disastrous influence on the life and future of the Italian people, was due solely to a spiteful reaction on the part of the dictator to certain rash and baseless statements in some foreign newspapers." Actually Mussolini is worried because subsequent to the Pact of Steel the Nazis assure him that they do not want to wage war for the time being, but he is beginning to be not so sure. Italy in 39' is completely depleted, exhausted by the Ethiopian War and the intervention in Spain on the side of Franco, later the winner of the civil war. Despite the positive outcome, wars cost huge sums of money and the Italian budget suffers greatly; entering a world war in this condition would be difficult to sustain. Galeazzo Ciano, Foreign Minister as well as Mussolini's son-in-law, writes in his diary in early August, "the time has come to see how things stand: the game is too big."

On August 11 Ciano flies to Germany, is sent to von Ribbentrop with instructions to explain to him that to wage war at that time would be madness. On the question of Poland, the Kingdom Minister asks his peer, "do you want Danzig?" von Ribbentrop replies, "not anymore, we want war." Later, during the reception, Ciano approaches one of his aides and says in his ear, "we are at blows." Ciano, worried, wonders if the Germans have considered the likely intervention of England and France and how they intend to deal with them. But Ribbentrop is sure, they will not dare to intervene, Germany will invade Poland and have a free field. It is a bet on the non-intervention of the Western powers, as in 1914, when Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany invaded Belgium sure of no consequences from England. This time they really make the bet: von Ribbentrop proposes to Ciano that if England and France stayed out then Italy would give Germany a Renaissance painting; if not, Germany would give Italy a collection of ancient German weapons. But Ribbentrop is sure: "We will wage war and it will not become a world war, because France and England will not dare to intervene."

Ciano returns to Rome, and it is now clear that the Nazis are about to invade Poland, as well as that Hitler expects Fascist Italy, as declared at the 1937 Berlin Assembly by Mussolini, to march with its ally all the way. But the Führer does not know that Italy is prepared to hold out to avoid imminent catastrophe given the weakness of the army. When the Duce finally comes forward and confesses his country's total unpreparedness, the Germans first turn up their noses, then they are fine with it as long as Italy's neutrality is not flaunted too much around. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland triggering the tremendous conflict that for six years displayed the greatest atrocities in human history. Italy would enter it about a year later when during the famous Piazza Venezia speech on June 10, 1940, Mussolini announced that "The declaration of war has already been delivered to the ambassadors of Great Britain and France." It was "the hour of irrevocable decisions" that led Mussolini and the Fascist regime to its fall.

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Sources: Alessandro Barbero, Galeazzo Ciano's Diaries.

QOD: What do you think about Galeazzo Ciano and Joachim von Ribbentrop?

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[tomorrowusa]

How many Nazi and Hitler references do Trump and his supporters have to make before some people start to see a pattern? These are neither isolated nor rare occurrences.

This goes back to before Trump even took office.

And there were those "very fine people" in Charlottesville the following year.

And since he lost in 2020, he hasn't gotten any better.

Trump Apparently Has a List of Things He Loves About Adolf Hitler

And who could possibly forget Trump's dinner with a Nazi?

‘Huge Victory’: Trump’s Neo-Nazi Dinner Guest Praises Charlie Kirk For Becoming a ‘White Supremacist’

At the very least, Trump is a Nazi sympathizer. Most Republicans know this but still hitch their wagons to his brand in the hope of furthering their personal advancement.

[ruv-simp]

Oop-

Just walked in on them-

[housereich]

Beginning of HouseReich! In this Countryhumans AU, Third Reich is still alive (he was saved, USSR deemed that death wasn’t a good enough punishment for everything he did) and working as a Housewife in the mansion of USSR. He takes care of the kids, and does all the cooking and cleaning around the house, and basically anything else that needs done. Follow on the journey of Third Reich and USSR as they learn to forgive and accept their pasts and presents.

I’m doing this for fun, so no hate. I have a lot of ideas for this!

[cutecountryballs]

one day with the german babies

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[ikarus-angel]

Draw a Countryhuman !

Disclaimer:

Reich is not my favorite in an affectionate way - I do not support or condone any of his actions - or any lf the historical events that led to his creation. I am part of this community because I am interested in history - not in the characters from an uninformed standpoint. This makes him very fascinating - and a great story component.

[deutschland-im-krieg]

Blohm & Voss BV 222 Wiking under tow by Royal Navy forces, Trondheim harbour, Norway, possibly 8 May 1945. For more, see my Facebook group - Eagles Of The Reich