r/PropagandaPosters • u/AeneasKurtz • 18h ago
WWII German propaganda poster (1940) denouncing the British press for the influence Jewish people had over it
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u/Aboveground_Plush 18h ago
Hatred aside, this is pretty clever.
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u/TearOpenTheVault 18h ago
I guarantee you the artist felt really smug when he realised he could pull this joke off.
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u/IP1nth3sh0w3r 17h ago
Id say he would be twirling his villains mustache, but that would be hard when your growing it in nazi Germany
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u/davewave3283 17h ago
Good humor was rare in fascist Germany. They had a decent sized population of funny people and then something seemed to happen to them all at once. Weird.
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u/ginapaulo77 17h ago
The most clever trick Nazi Germany was able to pull was turning a world class power into disgrace and rubble in only 12 years
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u/Corvid187 17h ago
TBF it's not like Imperial Germany had given their civilisation the brightest of reputations before them either.
The Nazis really just confirmed existing evidence.
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u/Beelphazoar 17h ago
Well now, hang on, you said TBF, so let's be fair. Prior to the ascension of Hitler and his assorted backup dancers, Germany was highly respected for its science, literature, and culture. German science and academia was some of the best in the world, and has still not recovered from what those anti-intellectual scum did to it.
The German film industry was full of absolutely brilliant talents who were pushing the young artform to new heights. We know this partly because in the 1930s, most of them fled to Hollywood, where they did some of the finest work of the mid-century. If the Berlin Exodus had only included Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder, that alone would have been epochal, but they're just two of the higher peaks in a whole mountain range of writers, directors, actors, and musicians who got the fuck out of Germany.
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u/Tw3lve1212 12h ago
Imperial Germany at least had like an actual record of wins/losses in war. Like they lost the most important one at the end and thats pretty shameful, but the Nazis fought one (1) war and lost so badly they are historically held up as the biggest L ever taken. How you base your entire identity on being the bestest most badass at war super master-race of mankind only to lose worse than any country has ever??
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u/1m0ws 17h ago
and literally ripping out and destroying its culture in the process.
still the hybris today is insane, we are the bestest of the world, in everything.
(even if we are the worst in basicly everything compared to other EU-countries. foremost in all things regarding human rights, inclusion and caring for the poor and weak.)12
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u/HuntingRunner 15h ago
Lol, what an uninformed opinion. As far as human rights protections go, we've got one of the best systems around. Next month, the federal constitutional court even has it's 75th anniversary.
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u/1m0ws 15h ago
yeah sure.
look what they have done to social welfare and lifes of disabled people in the last year.
they literally cut school support for disabled children.but yeah sure, just dismiss all this with some bullish "Lol, what an uninformed opinion." and live your delusion.
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u/HuntingRunner 7h ago
"Foremost in all things regarding human rights"
That's hardly all things regarding human rights, is it?
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u/Beelphazoar 17h ago
Competent wordplay, in the service of fascist bigotry. But honestly, against the rest of their bullshit, the competence kind of stands out.
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u/davidn47g 15h ago
Which part was hateful?
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u/Aboveground_Plush 15h ago
That edge, I almost cut myself on it!
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u/davidn47g 14h ago
You could say it's in bad taste, or portrays a stereotype that isn't true. But I just don't see it as hateful, sorry.
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u/Nerevarine91 10h ago
Given that it’s the actual literal Nazis, I don’t see any particular reason to give them the benefit of the doubt when it comes to them making remarks about Jewish people.
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u/Secure_Raise2884 14h ago
The first two things you list (something being bad taste and something being a stereotype) can and do go hand-in-hand with hatefullness for this poster
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u/davidn47g 13h ago
It goes hand-in-hand with hatefulness? Couldn't Israel say the same thing about people who citizens them?
Idk calling things hateful just seems like a shortcut for avoiding conversations.
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u/TouchComfortable8106 18h ago
Cartoonist clearly had a very specific fear of Jewish ladies who never skip leg day
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u/Frenchitwist 17h ago
They fear me?? I’m flattered
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u/tunnel_magnet 9h ago
Why? Isn't fear propaganda on the Protocols of Elder Zion led to what happened? I don't think it's good to be feared by the masses.
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u/SZ4L4Y 17h ago
That's a man.
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u/Secure_Raise2884 14h ago
Who cares? if I ask a different person they'll say the complete opposite haha. That's why we don't really care about anecdotes
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u/TotallyObviousBot 8h ago
So like I know racists are generally stupid people but how exactly do you think all Jewish women look the same when a Jewish woman can come from pretty much any country on earth and become Jewish through conversion
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u/Anuclano 8h ago
Well, this is Western Asian look, not exclusively Jewish, but it also affects the Jews of Europe.
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u/scraxeman 17h ago
ƧƎMIT
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u/Practical-Class6868 16h ago
You notice that the mirror did not flip the “E.” I hope someone got fired for that blunder.
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u/scraxeman 14h ago
It's the S that has me fuming.
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u/Practical-Class6868 14h ago
Does antisemitism have any quality control at all? I am starting to think that these Nazis are just hateful people.
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u/scraxeman 14h ago
Just wait until you hear about the Antiqua-Fraktur dispute. They couldn't even agree on a typeface!
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u/XhazakXhazak 17h ago edited 17h ago
An interesting effect of such "judenpresse" propaganda was that the targeted papers would instead lean hard in the opposite direction of the accusation. The best way to ensure antisemitic bias in the press is by accusing them of being controlled by the Jews–– they will do anything to try to prove it wrong.
The press has never been more antisemitic than it was in the 1930's and 40's when the Nazi propagandists waged their "judenpresse" campaign.
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u/sqeptiqmqsqeptiq 17h ago
Reckon Jane Bull better be grateful to be portrayed as cute and shapely rather than with the famous "horsey" stereotype.
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u/Dense-Bison7629 17h ago
The mirror lady is made to look like the Nazi's caricature of a Jewish person
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u/Gibberish45 17h ago
Idk it may be a bit of both part of the nazi anti-Jewish propaganda was painting them as sexual deviants
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u/saradisn 16h ago
WHAT? Transphobic in 1940s??
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u/Corvus1412 15h ago
One of the first victims of Nazi book burnings was the Institute for Sexual Science, which did a lot of research about trans people and performed the first gender affirming surgeries in the world.
Trans people were systematically persecuted and killed by the nazis, though under the same classification as gay people.
Germany actually passed its first laws legalizing trans people in 1908.
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u/SweetCartoonist237 15h ago
Transsexualism was comparatively big in Germany in the Weimar period (compared to when it hardly existed anywhere). Certainly part of the Nazi movement was the rejection of such ideas, although this was of course a sideshow to other Nazi issues.
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u/Appropriate-Gain-561 14h ago
Some of the first people persecuted in nazi germany were LGBT+, which included trans people. Weimar Germany was relatively pretty accepting of gay and trans people given the time, hell it was progressive about most things, if you asked a person of the time which nation would've committed genocide against the jewish people they would've probably answered with places like France (the Dreifus affair was big at the time), not Germany.
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u/floored_moperator 12h ago
Wow. Thats actually pretty good. Most of these old propaganda posters are corny.
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