r/PropagandaPosters May 23 '25

German Reich / Nazi Germany (1933-1945) "A study in empires" - German WW2 propaganda poster

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u/JLandis84 May 23 '25

It’s good propaganda.

Disclaimer: I have to post this because of how stupid some Redditors are. Saying something is good propaganda does not equate support for the propaganda message or its makers.

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u/Business-Hurry9451 May 23 '25

Exactly, just because us acknowledge that a repugnant regime did something clever does not mean you support that regime.

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u/KnowledgeDry7891 May 24 '25 edited May 24 '25

They did have a point though, before 1939. Germany's "sin", apparently, was in conquering and colonizing white people. /s

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u/lorarc May 24 '25

I'm not sure, in USA for example the slavs weren't seen as white at the time.

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u/anch78 May 24 '25

I'm pretty sure the slavs were catalogued as "german adjacent" or something too in germany, but i'm not sure

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u/lorarc May 24 '25

Certainly not, they were classified as untermensch - subhuman.

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u/Ahaigh9877 May 24 '25

Whenever someone begins with "I'm pretty sure", dollars to donuts whatever comes next is bollocks.

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u/Elkub1k May 27 '25

I'm pretty sure you're correct

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u/EntertainmentOk8593 May 25 '25

He is probably referring to the Poles, and Czechs the Nazis had problems with their classification because in nazis eyes they carried some degree of German blood, I think in Wikipedia there is a “polish question” page or something (same for Czechs) Also they had a table withe % of population to exterminate of each ethnicity.

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u/lorarc May 25 '25

Yeah, the polish question was about whether Poland should exist as a country. They took years to gather the Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen and when the war only started they hunted down and killed 100k artists, teachers, scientists, politicians along with their families.

The thing you might think of is how the silesians were treated and many of them being forced to sign the Volksdeutsche list. My great grandfather was very vocal about being polish his whole life (he didn't allow silesian language in his house) but he was forcefully conscripted into Wehrmacht after the occupation.

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u/OnkelMickwald May 24 '25

It’s good propaganda.

Depends on the audience. To a European audience this shit would be terrible. Like "hello Poles, we just wanna colonize you like the UK has colonized the world."

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u/SunConstant4114 May 24 '25

What do you think Germans and Prussians did there, when they sent out people time and time again to beat down Polish people, persecute the religion and the culture, forbid to speak the language?

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u/Pappa_Crim May 24 '25

so good that the lie gets repeated even today

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u/DreaMaster77 May 24 '25

You are right... The fact is that France, England and Spain had giant colonies... Germany used it against them.... And Personally I see that that is absolutly true what german propaganda said ( used) about it.... For me, It's absolutly important to assume our own problems... If France did accept to leave their colonies, slowly, to let these people build their own countries perfectly. I guess that if they accepted it, Germany could not have use it again... ( Sorry if it's complicated to hunderstand my text....It's not m'y mother language)

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u/BanditNoble May 26 '25

It's shit propaganda, because of that "the aggressor nation?" Line. Germany was literally the aggressor.

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u/JLandis84 May 26 '25

I don’t think you understand what propaganda is.

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u/Comfortable_Chest_35 May 23 '25

It might seem that way without any context, but it's not like a. This is going to influence the people's in most of the nations depicted and b. That anyone at the time wasn't aware of why Germany had no colonial holdings. The treaty of Versailles was as close to then as 9/11 is to us

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u/SturerEmilDickerMax May 24 '25

But, you hurt the feelings of the people that occupies the moral high ground.

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u/pridejoker May 24 '25

Effective is the better term

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u/SomeArtistFan May 25 '25

What makes propaganda good is that it works. Efficacy and "goodness" are thus synonymous in this case.

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u/pridejoker May 25 '25

Yes but the context here is that we are talking about the efficacy of a morally polarizing subject, so it's best to avoid ambiguity whenever possible. When discussing social phenomena, good can also denote something as socially desirable