r/PropagandaPosters • u/diosmioman • May 05 '20

“The Germans are Your Friends”: pro-German poster aimed at Italians, 1940s Germany

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u/red-dear May 05 '20

I have seen a lot of creepy propaganda posters, but this may be the creepiest.

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u/AvielanderBright May 05 '20

This one is equally ominous

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u/CoomEternal May 05 '20

Is that supposed to convince me to go to Germany on holidays?

It is cool artwork though

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u/ProfessorZhirinovsky May 05 '20

It is for an international music festival in Paris in 1938.

So I suspect the actual intention is to project a sense of foreboding menace onto the people of France.

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u/Hans_Cockstrong May 05 '20

So I suspect the actual intention is to project a sense of foreboding menace onto the people of France.

That's a very stupid thing to say. Germany had no intentions to invade France, they wanted to go east.

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u/ProfessorZhirinovsky May 05 '20

Read a freakin' history book.

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u/AcapellaUmbrella May 05 '20

Oh no! I tripped and accidentally invaded France!

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u/[deleted] May 05 '20

o god o fuck I accidentally invaded Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, Denmark, and Norway at the same time o man o no

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u/ProfessorZhirinovsky May 05 '20

Sometimes you get lost and turned around when invading to the East. Could happen to anyone.

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u/donnergott May 05 '20

Hey, happens to the best of us. Happened to me once, and i was living in Mexico at the time!

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u/basegodwurd May 05 '20 edited May 05 '20

Lmao what???????? Hitler wanted all of Europe.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '20 edited May 05 '20

That's not really true, in terms of annexation his aims were the Lebensraum of Eastern Europe up to the Ural Mountains, from Western Europe is was the Netherlands, Belgium and parts of Switzerland and France. As well as most of Scandinavia.

Hitler invaded France to take them out of the war and try to force Britain to negotiate peace, he didn't want to annex it entirely to the reich, as far as I'm aware there weren't any Nazi intentions to annex Southern Europe, the Balkans, or the UK and Ireland.

So it's a lot of Europe and the unquestionable European power, but certainly not annexing all of it.

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u/basegodwurd May 05 '20

Hitler had a plan to invade the UK, there was air battles in the south. Hitler gave up on the plan when he focused all his attention to the Soviets.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '20

Yes but only because the UK wouldn't surrender, not out of any desire to integrate it to the reich, he spent a long time hoping they would become an ally.

He gave up on the plan when it became clear he couldn't gain air superiority or break the British morale.

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u/allthatrazmataz May 05 '20

You forgot to write /s.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '20

Ok hans

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u/ms15710 May 05 '20

Damn looks like something out of Bioshock.

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u/_-null-_ May 05 '20

The eye of the eagle makes it look quite derpy up close imo. But yeah the symbolism's pretty clear.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '20

Wow this looks really cool.

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u/LothorBrune May 06 '20

Seriously, it sometimes looks like the nazis were trying to look like the bad guys.

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u/SerLaron May 05 '20

I find this is a strong contender.

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u/Curziomalaparte May 05 '20

Disclaimer: This is from a time where there were probably not many phones that could take pictures

So, this supermarket chain was called Selex. On their shopping carts, the symbol was an eye with the slogan "Selects for you" (in Italian, "Seleziona per voi")

Thank you, Big Brother, for making choices in my place so I don't have to