Sound Familiar?

Promises of hope, change, even the promise of a savior for the land during hard economic times...sound familiar?

Mjölnir [Hans Schweitzer], "Our Last Hope—Hitler," 1932. In the presidential elections of 1932, Nazi propagandists appealed to Germans left unemployed and destitute by the Great Depression with an offer of a savior.

This poster from the 1932 campaign reads: "We will take the fate of the nation into our hands! Hitler will be Reich President!"

Early Nazi campaign poster by Mjolnir: "National Socialism–The Organized Will of the Nation"

In the struggle to seize power, Nazi propagandists sought to win the "moral contest" by portraying its Storm Troopers who had been wounded in street brawls with Communists and Socialists, as victims rather than instigators. Bandaged Nazi warriors became a standard image in newspapers, films, and posters such as this one. Terrified of Communism, many in the German middle classes uncritically accepted this view of the Nazi as the courageous victim of leftist terror.

What we are seeing now...

"Barack Obama will require you to work.

He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism.

That you put down your divisions.

That you come out of your isolation,

that you move out of your comfort zone . . .

Barack will never allow you

to go back to your lives

as usual - uninvolved, uninformed."

- Michelle Obama

What all this could lead to...

Poster promoting the Nazi monthly publication Neues Volk

Jews were not the only group excluded from the vision of the "national community." The Nazi regime also singled out people with intellectual and physical disabilities. In this poster promoting the Nazi monthly Neues Volk, the caption reads: "This hereditarily ill person will cost our national community 60,000 Reichmarks over the course of his lifetime. Citizen, this is your money." This publication, put out by the Nazi Party's Race Office, emphasized the burden placed on society by those deemed unfit.

Burning synagogue in Rostock the morning after Kristallnacht

Residents of the mid-size city of Rostock watch the burning Augustenstrasse synagogue the morning after Kristallnacht, November 1938. Friedrich Best, a non-Jewish teenager who lived near the synagogue, took the photograph. As he ate his breakfast, he saw from the kitchen window that a crowd was gathering. Suddenly, flames leaped from the roof of the synagogue. Best ran and got his camera. He snapped two photographs, which he later developed and showed to his parents. Fearing that he would be arrested if the police found out that he had recorded the event, his parents insisted that he destroy both prints and negatives. Best secretly saved the negatives and sold them to the city archive in 1958 after a call for Nazi-era artifacts was published in the Rostock newspaper.

... and much more! Don't let history repeat itself!!! You have a voice, speak up while you still can!

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out-

              because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out-
              because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-
              because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me.

                                 -Martin Niemoller

(A Lutheran minister and early Nazi supporter who was later imprisoned for opposing Hitler's regime.)



Sources:
State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda

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