Some Old School Propaganda (Berlin 1936)

[togor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OQxVW2vDJw

Vintage street scenes carry information. The narrator (for those of you who speak some German) gives a decidedly saccharin take on life at the center of prewar Nazi Germany, a neat and orderly place where ordinary people engage in the routine peaceful pleasures under the benevolent eye of Der Fuhrer. We of course know the rest of the story, the ugliness, corruption, violence and evil that underlie Das Dritte Reich and which would in less than a decade utterly consume this city and its inhabitants. Sadly many in the comments section for this video choose to turn away. One of the sorrows of my life is that I live in that span of time that marks the passing of those that lived and knew those times and strove that our civilization should not forget those lessons, and the inevitable forgetting that happens anyways among the younger generations.

Do not believe for a moment that we are not swimming in an ocean of propaganda today, except for certain favorite beacons of truth. The message-makers have far more subtle techniques now at their disposal.

[S.A. Boggs]

See what I mean, the National Socialists of today yearns for "The good ole days!" of yesteryear. The Horst Wessel Lied is always in their heart!
Sam

[togor]

See what I mean, the National Socialists of today yearns for "The good ole days!" of yesteryear. The Horst Wessel Lied is always in their heart!
Sam

Yes, absolutely, they are a real rising problem in Germany. Did you read some of those quotes? The ones in German are pretty nasty indeed. Anti-semitism is still a latent force in the former Warsaw pact countries. Less so in the Soviet Union, according to my Russian Jewish friend who was based near Kiev in the Soviet Army (around the time of Chernobyl, coincidentally).

[Vern Humphrey]

The Nazi brownshirts are active in this country -- they call themselves the "antifa."

[togor]

Um...you do know that is short for "anti-facists" and that they turn out when the Swastikas march? Vern, try turning your TV right side up.

[Dick Hosmer]

Those young jerks wouldn't know a REAL fascist if it bit them on the leg - but I guess we are supposed to admire them anyhow?

[barretcreek]

Nice little rendition of 'Berliner Luft'.

[dave]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OQxVW2vDJw

Do not believe for a moment that we are not swimming in an ocean of propaganda today, except for certain favorite beacons of truth. The message-makers have far more subtle techniques now at their disposal.

Yes and they go by the name of democrats!

[togor]

Those young jerks wouldn't know a REAL fascist if it bit them on the leg - but I guess we are supposed to admire them anyhow?

Not at all, Dick. There are lots of reasons to not like the antifa. For example, one could dislike their unwillingness to embrace non-violence in their protests. Or one could choose to not trust the highly disparate (at best) or non-existent (at worse) character of leadership. But you put Swastika guys on the march in front of them and it's a sure bet what direction they'll go. Swastikas are pretty easy to figure out, yes? So if someone says they have trouble telling Nazis from antifa from Democrats, then I conclude that they're not paying attention. None of the three groups has much affinity for each other, and just because someone else doesn't like any of them doesn't make those groups one and the same. I don't like cottage cheese, and I don't like kimchee. That doesn't make them the same food.

[JohnPeeff]

The antifa are "Stalinist" thugs no better or worse than the Nazis they profess to hate.

[S.A. Boggs]

The antifa are "Stalinist" thugs no better or worse than the Nazis they profess to hate.

Very good observation!
Sam

[bostonbound]

Um...you do know that is short for "anti-facists" and that they turn out when the Swastikas march? Vern, try turning your TV right side up.

And the North Koreans call themselves the Democratic Republic of Korea. What they call themselves and what they are, as usual for leftists, are two different things.

The term "Brownshirts" is just a useful and descriptive term for violence loving, antidemocratic thusg, which describe both the original of the term and their current incarnation, the so-called (and self called) "antifa". I prefer to call the "antifa" by a more accurate term - domestic terrorists, just like the so-called BLM.

[blackhawknj]

In 1936 Berlin had "National Socialism", in 1956-they had The Real Thing.
People need to remember that Bolshevism came first and Fascism was a reaction to it.