Propaganda
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The Holocaust didn’t start with the mass extermination of Jews, it started in ways which could even be considered non violent, with gradually excluding Jews from society. In this blog there are some examples of signs saying ~Forbidden for Jews” or”No Jews allowed” from several locations in the Netherlands. On the signs above it says…
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Sports were important in Nazi ideology. Often athletes would be portrayed as warriors, and many drafted German athletes were placed into several branches of the Wehrmacht. The Nazis also understood the power of sports as propaganda, and, especially in a sports-loving country like the Netherlands, the Nazis saw merit in promoting sports. The poster below…
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When we think of the first TV screening of Batman we automatically think of the 1966 TV series when Adam West took on the role as the caped crusader. However it was the actor Lewis Wilson who first portrayed the Batman on the TV screens. This day 75 years ago, July 16 1943, the Batman…
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Although tempted to join the debate on the current call to boycott goods from Israel, I am not going to join. I rather stick to what I know best, history. . On April 1, 1933, the Nazis in Germany began with the boycott of Jewish businesses. They claimed it was a retaliation to the calls of…
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I was going to put a lot of pictures in this blog, but then when I looked at this picture I thought that it would be enough. A class, class mates and a teacher, like any other class in any other school. Except it isn’t. Here the children are taught to hate. The kids standing…
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Der Stürmer is probably the most vile newspaper ever published. It was nothing more then Julius Streicher’s Anti-Semitic propaganda tabloid. It was however popular and made Streicher a wealthy man. It wasn’t the official Nazi newspaper, in fact some leading Nazis did not like it at all. Joseph Goebbels tried to ban the newspaper in…
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The Nazi had a well oiled propaganda machine which was very effective,not only to sell their warped ideology but also when it came to recruiting for the SS and other branches of the army. They also had a very effective propaganda program outside Germany. The picture above is a Dutch SS recruit poster saying “For…
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It is not always a good thing to be a law-abiding citizen. Don’t worry; I am not encouraging anarchy, but it is a fact that many things that we now know were evil and vile were once laws. Like slavery once was legal and written into law. Combine that with a nation whose culture it…
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Despite all the horrors of World War II—there was still room for humour, satire, and a healthy dose of sarcasm. Although, sometimes the price to pay for a joke could be extremely high. In this blog, these are just a few examples of some WWII jokes, the consequences for some of them, and the way…
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