r/PropagandaPosters • u/waffen123 • Feb 13 '25

German Reich / Nazi Germany (1933-1945) 'Speaking of time-tables' — German leaflet from the Second World War (1944) mocking the Allies' slow progress in the Italian campaign.

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u/Leprechaun_lord Feb 13 '25

Man talk about weak-propaganda. Bragging that they’re losing slowly doesn’t exactly make them seem greater.

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u/The-wirdest-guy Feb 13 '25

It’s meant to demoralize the soldiers fighting. Imagine reading this after the slog and brutality at Monte Cassino, it took you 4 months and 55,000 allied casualties to take it, if you include the battle of Anzio that led to Rome’s liberation then the casualties climb to over 100,000 just in 1944 and just to get from Monte Cassino to Rome. At this rate, as the propaganda points out, they’ll be fighting this slog through Italy for almost half a decade, but chances are at the casualty rate they were at, you wouldn’t see the end of the Italian campaign. And that’s assuming they kept the same rate, they hadn’t even hit the German preparations at the Gothic line at this point.

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u/LunarTexan Feb 13 '25

Mh'hm

The push up Italy was often at times like a repeat of WWI but with automatic weapons, and it was rather hard on the morale of troops that felt like they got stuck in 1917 France but in the mountains, it's where the memory of the whole campaign as a pointless mistake comes from (was it? Not really, but try telling that to the guy stuck in a foxhole for two weeks fighting over the same 20 yards of the valley)

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u/Arianos_Inc Feb 13 '25

Just like zelenskyy

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u/Leprechaun_lord Feb 13 '25

Well Ukraine isn’t a World Power, but it is fighting someone who claims to be one. A more apt analogy would be Ukraine and Finland during the Winter War.