#Third Reich

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Five thousand New Yorkers gathered in Columbus Circle in a mass demonstration against the persecution of Jews and Catholics by Germany, November 16, 1938. The crowd heard denunciations of the Third Reich from several speakers, including Nathan Frankel, Labor Advisor to Mayor La Guardia, and Orson Welles.

Photo: Associated Press

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Blohm & Voss BV 222 Wiking under tow by Royal Navy forces, Trondheim harbour, Norway, possibly 8 May 1945. For more, see my Facebook group - Eagles Of The Reich

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NOOO! THE BABIES!!!

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The Two Ministers: Galeazzo Ciano and Joachim von Ribbentrop

Probably the one of the two most interesting figures. Since I make researches mostly on Fascist Italy, it was intriguing to read Galeazzo Ciano's perspective and thoughts on Joachim von Ribbentrop, his German colleague Minister. One thing is certain: both men didn't like each other. It was a huge despise from both parties. Ciano thought of Ribbentrop as a "too cynical and suck up" kind of man. Meanwhile, Ribbentrop considered Ciano as a "hiding traitor, playing the double-agent role for the democratic countries". Fun fact: Galeazzo Ciano's diaries were used by the Allies as a proof against Joachim von Ribbentrop in the Nuremberg Trials.

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On May 22, 1939, the Kingdom of Italy and Nazi Germany entered into the Pact of Steel signed by their respective Foreign Ministers Galeazzo Ciano and Joachim von Ribbentrop. This agreement was greeted with great enthusiasm by the press: "unfailing friendship between our two peoples." Ciano wrote in his diary, a few days after his execution in January 1944: "The tragedy of Italy began in August 1939. On my own initiative, I went to Hitler's headquarters in Salzburg and was suddenly confronted with the cold and cynical Germanic determination to provoke the conflict. The alliance between Italy and Germany had been signed in May. I had opposed it, making every effort to delay such a step, or at least make it ineffective. There was no reason, on the other hand, in my opinion, to bind oneself for life and death to the fate of Nazi Germany. I had favored, it is true, a policy of cooperation, because of our geographic location, because we can and should detest, but not ignore that eighty million Germans brutally burden the heart of Europe. The decision to cement the alliance was made suddenly by Mussolini, while I was in Milan with Ribbentrop. Several American newspapers had published that the Lombard metropolis had welcomed the Reich Foreign Ministry with blatant hostility, and this was evidence of Mussolini's diminished personal prestige. He was in a state of rage. By telephone he ordered me to accept the German demands for an alliance, which I had held in abeyance for more than a year and hoped to send off again. Thus was born the "Pact of Steel." This decision, which was then to have such a disastrous influence on the life and future of the Italian people, was due solely to a spiteful reaction on the part of the dictator to certain rash and baseless statements in some foreign newspapers." Actually Mussolini is worried because subsequent to the Pact of Steel the Nazis assure him that they do not want to wage war for the time being, but he is beginning to be not so sure. Italy in 39' is completely depleted, exhausted by the Ethiopian War and the intervention in Spain on the side of Franco, later the winner of the civil war. Despite the positive outcome, wars cost huge sums of money and the Italian budget suffers greatly; entering a world war in this condition would be difficult to sustain. Galeazzo Ciano, Foreign Minister as well as Mussolini's son-in-law, writes in his diary in early August, "the time has come to see how things stand: the game is too big."

On August 11 Ciano flies to Germany, is sent to von Ribbentrop with instructions to explain to him that to wage war at that time would be madness. On the question of Poland, the Kingdom Minister asks his peer, "do you want Danzig?" von Ribbentrop replies, "not anymore, we want war." Later, during the reception, Ciano approaches one of his aides and says in his ear, "we are at blows." Ciano, worried, wonders if the Germans have considered the likely intervention of England and France and how they intend to deal with them. But Ribbentrop is sure, they will not dare to intervene, Germany will invade Poland and have a free field. It is a bet on the non-intervention of the Western powers, as in 1914, when Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany invaded Belgium sure of no consequences from England. This time they really make the bet: von Ribbentrop proposes to Ciano that if England and France stayed out then Italy would give Germany a Renaissance painting; if not, Germany would give Italy a collection of ancient German weapons. But Ribbentrop is sure: "We will wage war and it will not become a world war, because France and England will not dare to intervene."

Ciano returns to Rome, and it is now clear that the Nazis are about to invade Poland, as well as that Hitler expects Fascist Italy, as declared at the 1937 Berlin Assembly by Mussolini, to march with its ally all the way. But the Führer does not know that Italy is prepared to hold out to avoid imminent catastrophe given the weakness of the army. When the Duce finally comes forward and confesses his country's total unpreparedness, the Germans first turn up their noses, then they are fine with it as long as Italy's neutrality is not flaunted too much around. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland triggering the tremendous conflict that for six years displayed the greatest atrocities in human history. Italy would enter it about a year later when during the famous Piazza Venezia speech on June 10, 1940, Mussolini announced that "The declaration of war has already been delivered to the ambassadors of Great Britain and France." It was "the hour of irrevocable decisions" that led Mussolini and the Fascist regime to its fall.

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Sources: Alessandro Barbero, Galeazzo Ciano's Diaries.

QOD: What do you think about Galeazzo Ciano and Joachim von Ribbentrop?

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Joseph Goebbels and his wife together with Adolf Hitler at a state event.

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Disclaimer (I can't believe I need to say this, but apparently it's necessary in this day and age): I do not condone murder, I do not blame the children caught in the crossfire for anything, I do not believe Israeli settlers deserve to all die. Moving on to the point of this post now.

During the third Reich the Nazis seized not only the property and lives of those not Aryan enough to fit into their Volksgemeinschaft, they also took a lot of land. This happened within Germany at first and later of course also in the countries the Nazis attacked and plundered.

They then sent German settlers to take over that land. It was sold to the German people as an easy and cheap way to become land owners and to secure financial stability for their families. (Apart from the whole "spreading German culture and values" argument.) It was a whole program you could apply to (my great-great-grandparents did, but weren't chosen). So you'd often find young, happy families moving into these houses and farms that were previously owned by jewish or otherwise "unsuitable" families. They were civilians looking to start a new life.

Later most of them claimed they had no idea of what was "really" going on, that the previous owners of that land had been displaced or arrested, taken to a Konzentrationslager and murdered. They claimed they had no idea that the land they lived on was bought with blood.

That is of course utter bullshit. Those farms and fields didn't just fall from the sky to accommodate German settlers. Everyone knew. People chose not to actively think about it, but they knew.

Now I read about Palestinians being displaced and taken away to a small strip of land which they can't leave, where they need to survive without clean water or electricity, I hear about "innocent" Israeli settlers claiming the Palestinian land for themselves and I think about the Germans who moved to Poland because they didn't care where that land came from or what had happened to the people there.

Nobody would dare argue that the German Nazi settlers were innocent. Those Germans weren't innocent, they were complicit. Yet somehow the Israeli settlers are.

Again, I don't believe the Israeli settlers deserve to be killed. But they are not innocent. They know who's land they're living on, where it came from and what the price was.

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"Jewish people were the only ones targeted and killed" is a form of Holocaust denial by the way, flattening the vast horror of the Nazi regime, which targeted primarily Jewish people but also Roma, Slavic people, communists, queer people, etc.

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Happy Fedor's day for those who celebrate (me)!!!

bonus of him doing "the pose" :P

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Waffen SS propaganda poster Third Reich

If you don't like it go with your life

I DON'T SUPPORT NAZISM,FASCISM OR ZIONISM IN ANY WAY, THIS IS AN EDUCATIONAL POST

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26.4

Happy birthday angel!

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Geli Raubal was the niece of H"tler, the daughter of his half-sister Angela Raubal.

Contemporaries described the daughter of H”ler's half-sister, born in 1908, as a "radiantly pretty, fun-loving brunette from Linz with Viennese charm and a mischievous laugh."

H”ler fell for this charm and began an affair with the 19-year-old.

On September 18, 1931, at the age of 23, Raubal shot himself in the apartment they shared, and the court ruled suicide.

Numerous speculations revolved around the question of whether Raubal was his lover. The significance she had for her uncle was never clarified, nor could the authorship of a nude study by the 21-year-old be attributed to him. The historian Joachim Fest sees Raubal as his only great love.

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Junkers Ju 87B Stukas, invasion of France, 29 May 1940. For more, see my Facebook group - Eagles Of The Reich

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Austria-Hungary painting

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Reinhard Heydrich & his kids!

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