Nazi propaganda regarding life in the Soviet Union

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Nazi propaganda regarding life in the Soviet Union

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Post by Cantankerous » 19 Jan 2021, 04:08

Does anyone have Nazi propaganda posters depicting life for people in the Soviet Union? I'm sure that Hitler told Goebbels to convince the German people that life in the Soviet Union was a hell on Earth, with Stalin denying the Soviet people the right to food by confiscating grain from collective farms in order to starve the kulaks to death, but also distribute propaganda posters depicting Stalin and the communists as devils engulfing Russian Orthodox churches in flames and tearing apart families.



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Re: Nazi propaganda regarding life in the Soviet Union

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Post by George L Gregory » 20 Jan 2021, 20:29

Cantankerous wrote:
19 Jan 2021, 04:08
Does anyone have Nazi propaganda posters depicting life for people in the Soviet Union? I'm sure that Hitler told Goebbels to convince the German people that life in the Soviet Union was a hell on Earth, with Stalin denying the Soviet people the right to food by confiscating grain from collective farms in order to starve the kulaks to death, but also distribute propaganda posters depicting Stalin and the communists as devils engulfing Russian Orthodox churches in flames and tearing apart families.
For examples of Nazi caricatures of the Soviet Union, check out the following link:

https://research.calvin.edu/german-prop ... e/ussr.htm

On 19 July 1942, Joseph Goebbels wrote an essay titled "The So-Called Russian Soul" which describes the military resistance of the Soviet Union.

Heinrich Himmler told men of the Eastern Front Battle Group "Nord" in 1941:
It is a war of ideologies and struggle races. On one side stands National Socialism: ideology, founded on the values of our Germanic, Nordic blood. It is worth the world as we want to see: beautiful, orderly, fair, socially, a world that may be, still suffers some flaws, but overall a happy, beautiful world filled with culture, which is precisely Germany. On the other side stands the 180 millionth people, a mixture of races and peoples, whose names are unpronounceable, and whose physical nature is such that the only thing that they can do - is to shoot without pity or mercy. These animals, which are subjected to torture and ill-treatment of each prisoner from our side, which do not have medical care they captured our wounded, as do the decent men, you will see them for yourself. These people have joined a Jewish religion, one ideology, called Bolshevism, with the task of: having now Russian, half [located] in Asia, parts of Europe, crush Germany and the world. When you, my friends, are fighting in the East, you keep that same fight against the same subhumans, against the same inferior races that once appeared under the name of Huns, and later - 1,000 years ago during the time of King Henry and Otto I, - the name of the Hungarians, and later under the name of Tatars, and then they came again under the name of Genghis Khan and the Mongols. Today they are called Russian under the political banner of Bolshevism.
The Subhuman (Der Untermensch) pamphlet was anti-Soviet rather than anti-Russian or anti-Slavic and contained material such as:
On the infinite a steppes of Russian territory lay Eastern Europe. A sharp contrast is noticed when comparing central Europe with this enormous space. On both sides of the border is the same earth but not the same man.

It is the man who makes his mark on the landscape, while on the German side is planned orderly fields yielding abundant harvests; the other side is only impenetrable forests, vast and unkempt, miles of uninhabited steppes where even the rivers wind endlessly through the nothingness.

This poorly kept land which hides fertile soil could be a paradise for man, a potential "California of Europe" alive with fields and fruit, but instead it lies neglected and wasted, lost to the abyss of cultural nihilism.

This land cries out against the subhuman and his wasteful ways! This fertile black earth watered by burning tears, is only barely separated from the rest of Europe. However its Eastern European masters have not risen above their primitive ways.

The land sees only chaos and wastes because it is not cared for by true man, the bearer of high culture and genius, who would manage its development, and bring civilization to its soil instead of only cruel and endless war, and destruction.

Certainly, the developed nations of Central and Western Europe wanted to secure this land, it was their purpose. First there were the Goths and the Varangians, who based there empires in this territory and introduced culture. Then the Swedish, Flemish, the Dutch, Shwabs and Lower-Saxon settlers, attempted to bring light into the darkness. The cry for help sounded for centuries from these lands.

Even Peter the Great, Catherine II and all the rest called the German peasant and the German officer, a European scientist! A physician and engineer. But once again the forces of darkness, and the subhuman prevailed, the German spirit, which came to these lands to help, was brutally and senselessly destroyed.

The subhuman has challenged humanity, thus began the terrible invasion of Attila and Gengis Khan!

On their small ugly steppe horses, the subhuman hordes appearing as if they were part of the animal, growing out of its fur, descended onto Europe with their inhuman cry!

Their narrow eyes shone with excitement and the greedy bloodthirsty desire to reign down fire and destruction on all in their path.

The cry “the Huns come” was heard for centuries and became synonymous with fear and loathing. Russia became the stepping stone for where the subhuman ideology and doctrine burst forth against the world of light.

Repeatedly these wild barbarians with sharpened spears, cursing and foaming at the mouth came to bring destruction to the cultured west.
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org ... ensch.html

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Re: Nazi propaganda regarding life in the Soviet Union

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Post by Hans1906 » 22 Jan 2021, 15:10

Cantankerous,

the official designation for the 1942 exhibiton in Berlin was "Das Sowjet-Paradies", E: "The Soviet Paradise".

Wikipedia (E) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soviet_Paradise
Wikipedia (G) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Sowjet-Paradies

The original exhibition poster extremly rare here in Germany, probably the "Deutsches Plakatmuseum" in the city of Essen owns
material from this infamous 1942 propaganda exhibition:

Deutsches Plakatmuseum / Essen: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_Plakatmuseum

Link to the ZVAB: https://www.zvab.com/erstausgabe/Sowjet ... 3887196/bd


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P.S. Thanks to George for the above link.
The paradise of the successful lends itself perfectly to a hell for the unsuccessful. (Bertold Brecht on Hollywood)

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