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Colour photographs of the Nazi Flag
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Those rallies seem to have been very inspirational to the North Korean government, and that should really terrify the entire rest of the world.
These terrifyingly wonderful images showcase the awe and fear of the German people in the 1930′s. Certain echoes can be seen in North Korea no doubt, but also there are striking similarities with Barack Obamas triumphant speech on Election night, Chicago 2008.
Power as spectacle. You could say the same thing about the old May Day parades of Soviet Russia, the jousts if Henry VIII, the coronation of Napoleon, or the opening of the Beijing Olympics. Hitler drew inspiration from the triumphant parades of Roman emperors, where they painted their faces red to appear like the god Jupiter and led captured foreign rulers into the city of Rome in irons.
Am I the only one who was reminded of the song “Be Prepared” from Disney’s “The Lion King” when seeing those images…?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0AiN8vrn9Y
@Rob:
You might be the only person above age 10 who hadn’t already figured out the ludicrously obvious connection between the Scar’s hyenas and Nazism.
They didn’t call it the Nazi “party” for nothing!
In case you’re wondering why the flags were red white & black, and not another three colours, it was because the colours were based on the pre 1918 German imperial flag, which was also red, white & black. According to the wikipedia entry on this – “Hitler explained the process by which the Nazi flag design was created: It was necessary to use the same colours as Imperial Germany, because in Hitler’s opinion they were “revered colours expressive of our homage to the glorious past and which once brought so much honour to the German nation.” The most important requirement was that “the new flag… should prove effective as a large poster” because “in hundreds of thousands of cases a really striking emblem may be the first cause of awakening interest in a movement.”
At which point did they all start singing and dancing “Springtime for Hitler”?
3rd september 1939, iirc.
One precision Nuke on one of those Hitler rallies (although nuclear weapons didn’t exist at the time); and the second world war would have been between Russia & the rest of the World
@Ocelotty
The Soviet Union had no intention of going to war against the ‘rest of the world’. They had much more local interests, and were, in fact, members of the Allies.
The great face off between American and the Soviet union unfolded in the post-war years.
you are so wrong…
they became allies due to their difficult situation
the truth is that Germany were faster – there would have been no ww2 if the allies agree on Hitlers demands and help him with soviets (it was his ambition and not world war)
Stalin was preparing to attack around middle 40s but Hitler was faster
the act that there was no march on the west after defeat of the Germany was due to the manpower – 30mln dead in CCCP and no reserves
women run the industry and all able men were in the army
Stalin was streching to the limits – one more year (lets say no Overlord and Italy – maybe also a stealmate in Africa) and he would be defeated becouse he got no more reinforcements
Germany were in a better situation because they were just starting to put women to factories and had already foreign workers in
Yes, the red/white/black flag was,indeed, based (partially) upon the Prussian flag BUT (and more importantly!) was also inspired by Plato’s descriptionin the Critia of the red, white and black building stones used in Atl Antis, which Hitler had archeologists looking for all over South America.
Simply amazing, it’s a scary thing seeing millions of people following one symbol, one man, one idea, but it could be for a good and great idea, man, symbol, maybe one day it will happen for the greater good, for all mankind.
Nazis. I hate these guys.
Ahh Elvis. I hate Illinois Nazis.
@Heretic
You are so wrong… 1.You don’t know the Russian people they are not like the French who give up. 2. The USSR and Red Army in May of 1944 was already in at the gates of Warsaw, Poland (the second front or the western front was not even open then). 3.The second front (Western Front) was opened in 1944 because the Western Powers realized that the Soviet Union was going to win the war and in the event that they do they will liberate most of Europe. Europe becoming mostly RED communist satellites under Soviet influence. It was a race to see who could liberate the most land. 4. The Wehrmacht (German Army) in June 1944 had 150 divisions on the Easter Front (facing the Soviet Union) and 66 on the Western Front (Facing the Western Allies) the bulk of the Nazi forces were facing the Soviet Union. 5. During the Great Patriotic War, the Red Army conscripted 29,574,900 men in addition to the 4,826,907 in service at the beginning of the war. Of this total of 34,401,807 it lost 6,329,600 KIA, 555,400 deaths by disease and 4,559,000 MIA (most captured). Of these 11,444,000, however, 939,700 rejoined the ranks in the subsequently liberated Soviet territory, and a further 1,836,000 returned from German captivity. Thus the grand total of losses amounted to 8,668,400. The German losses on the Eastern Front comprised an estimated 3,604,800 KIA within the 1937 borders plus 900,000 ethnic Germans and Austrians outside the 1937 border (included in these numbers are men listed as missing in action or unaccounted for after the war)[50] and 3,576,300 men reported captured (total 8,081,100); the losses of the German satellites on the Eastern Front approximated 668,163 KIA/MIA and 799,982 captured (total 1,468,145).
I’ll say this for them: They sure knew how to do spectacle.
Also, those men in pic #8 sure can hold their poles!
@ Alex
Ask any resident of Warsaw; Germans certainly couldn’t hold Poles for too long.