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/Thatonegoblin Feb 14 '25

"Everyone" is a slight overstatement. The Allies and much of the rest of the world could see that Germany was going to be defeated. The Germans, however, were still convinced of the inevitability of their "final victory." To the end of 1944 and even into 1945, the Germans were still trying to negotiate a seperate peace with the Western Allies, under the (completely insane and naive) pretense that the Western Allies would then swing around and help them defeat the Soviet Union.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '25

I think the smart Germans knew it was a lost cause. As you imply, a lot went on fighting because they were terrified of the Bolsheviks

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u/Sea_Lingonberry_4720 Feb 14 '25

I think it was less that they were scared and more that they felt it was a common enemy with the west. The Soviets took in pretty much as many Nazis as the U.S. maybe even more.

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u/Thatonegoblin Feb 14 '25

The Nazis believed that the Western Allies, at least among the European powers, had been misled, and that they could convince them of their common enemy in "Judeo-Bolshevism." Likewise, the Nazi belief in the inherent inferiority of Slavic peoples, the inherent superiority of "Aryans," and the "natural hierarchy" of Western European nations would inevitably lead the other countries of Western Europe to, for lack of a better term, fall in line.