Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The duckling that hatched from the egg had a mustache and a Nazi emblem throughout the cartoon, indicating that this character symbolized Adolf Hitler.The goose who became a comrade to the duck had an open Italian accent and, at the end of one of his speeches, a chick can be heard yelling "Duce!"
The 1942 harvest was good, and food supplies remained adequate in Western Europe. [122] Germany and Europe as a whole were almost totally dependent on foreign oil imports. [123] In an attempt to resolve the shortage, in June 1942 Germany launched Fall Blau ("Case Blue"), an offensive against the Caucasian oilfields. [124]
Before the outbreak of war in Europe, Germany and the Soviet Union formed a pact to divide the intervening buffer zones between them, and started with the invasion of Poland. The New Zealand cartoonist, David Low, produced a famous cartoon about this for the Evening Standard which appeared on 20 September 1939.
During the era of the Nazi Party in Germany, policies and propaganda encouraged German women to contribute to the Third Reich through motherhood. To build the Third Reich, the Nazis believed that a strong German people, who acted as a foundation, was essential to the success of Nazi Germany. [266]
The Nazis, led by Adolf Hitler, demanded not only the geographic reversion of Germany's post-war borders (to recuperate territory lost by the Treaty of Versailles), but also the German conquest and colonisation of Eastern Europe (whether or not those lands were German before 1918). [41]
German had been one of the official languages of the Crimean Regional Government of 1918-1919, which was established with the support of German forces during World War I. [7] Following the 1920 takeover of Crimea by the Red Army, the Soviets established two German raions within the Crimean ASSR; Büyük Onlar Raion (in 1930) and Telman Raion.
In Guy Saville's The Afrika Reich (2011) the United Kingdom is defeated by Nazi Germany during the Dunkirk Campaign, Lord Halifax becomes Prime Minister and signs a non-aggression pact with Germany ending the war. 1952 the two empires have carved up Africa between themselves. The Madagaskar Plan Hitler is deporting Jews as part of the ...
Nazi youth and the SS were depicted monumentally, with lighting posed to produce grandeur. [111] In a symbolic nod to the military exploits of the Teutonic Knights in medieval times, Nazi propaganda posters depicted German soldiers as knights in shining armor defending the German nation and Europe from the supposed threat of "Bolshevist Jewry".