I’ve been browsing Third Reich propaganda materials on r/PropagandaPosters recently. Some of them depict Germany’s vision of what Europe looked like (or what it should look like). The sad conclusion is that Poland, as a country and as a nation, was considered deserving of absolutely nothing. Poland was meant to be erased from the map and replaced by Germany. It wasn’t even allowed the role of a secondary ally, a satellite state useful as cannon fodder. Everyone supposedly knows this, but seeing it reflected so clearly in Nazi propaganda feels especially disheartening.
https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1q7os2q
Posted by WineTerminator
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Yeah? everyone knows what nazis thought about slavs.
also first image is AI-generated almost certainly
EDIT: maybe it’s not ai, but it looks weird to me.
In other news, water is wet.
What is this post about? Trash
Are you a bot or something? Yeah of course they won’t try to show us in a good light, their goal was to enslave and genocide us broski
Why would it be surprising that *Nazi* propaganda of all things wouldn’t include Poland on a map?
You understand the people you’re talking about here, right?
Poland didn’t exist for 100+ years pre-WW I. The Poland that existed between WW I and II (for ~21 years) was thus still in the German mind a very fresh ‘temporary’ state of things. This isn’t to ‘excuse’ this, but it is to provide a bit of an explanation…
Side note: You’ll note there are other missing countries: Switzerland and Greece come to mind.
Pictures like this should always be taken as being caricatures and with artistic adjustment/flare, and not as being 100% accurate…
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Hard to include a country you recently conquered on a propaganda poster.. since all of these seem to be from the Barbarossa Invasion Period (so 1941~)
The comments here suggest that it’s so obvious, but with the distortion of history in recent years, it’s something that needs to be repeated and taught to the younger generations.
This is most likely because Poland was one of the few nations that was completely unwilling to collaborate with the Reich. All the nations represented in the fight had either collaborated with (France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Slovakia, Croatia) or been allied to the Reich (Spain, Italy, Finland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria). The Poles were among some of the only nations to not have a Quisling type collaborator on a government level. Yugoslavia is also not represented for pretty much the same reason.
Hitler wanted to cooperate with Poland in the beginning. Same as he wasn’t to exterminate Jews in the beginning too. He planned to move them to Palestine, tho his motives were very clear, getting rid of every single of them. However, until the end of war, he cooperated with Zionists.