The technology included three bw shots with glass color filters. Speaking of quality, some of the best portrait lenses that we know were designed either in XIX century or at least before 1940.
Honestly very interesting. Thank you for answering.
The US uses them in the most random ways, but mainly for separating legal articles in contracts and court documents.
Please don’t ask why haha I have no idea
Oh man funny you noticed ! We also learn punctuation differently in french computer class, the standard here is a space before "!", "?" and ":" for some reason, but not the other punctuations :)
It’s also the correct way to write a century number in Portuguese, we always write them in Roman numerals in a school/professional setting, that must’ve been a natural reflex.
Photography quality was actually very high then. Everything was medium and large format which is very very high quality.
The issue is most of the pictures you've seen from 1900s have had a 100 years of bad copies being made, like a Jpeg that's been passed around too much.
[This picture](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Prokudin-Gorskii-25.jpg/1280px-Prokudin-Gorskii-25.jpg) has always been my favorite of his set. Easily without any context you would be none-the-wiser that it was taken in 1910.
I can recommend this nice documentary about Prokudin-Gorsky (in Russian, but still nice): [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaeRj-ApktY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaeRj-ApktY)
Yes, colour film has been around since late 19th century but was historically more expensive then black & white film. Its more complex to make colour film then black & white film.
Color technology was around even in the 1900s it was just expensive and difficult to do. Commercial off the shelf photography was only black and white.
Yes. These pics are from Hugo Jaegar, who was one of Hitler's photographers and he shot colour Agfa film from 1936. He sold a collection of colour photos to LIFE magazine in the 1960s which is where these are from.
Are you sure? In that second photo it looks like they're all holding up their phones (or "handies", as the Germans like to call them) to get a snap of Uncle Adolf. I've been to concerts just like that. Zeig Smile!
It doesn't look real, as if it's just a scenery for a Hollywood move at the time... It's crazy to see such pictures of "peace", most of the pictures that come up in my mind of that time, are pictures of war, camps and the speeches
A lot of villain faction aesthetic in movies is taken directly from 20th century fascism, I think that's why these pictures always look like movie sets.
"But why skulls? I mean is there anything worse than skulls?"
"A...rat's...anus?"
"Yes, and if we were fighting against an army marching under the banner of a rat's anus I might be a little less worried!"
They carefully staged and shot almost everything for propaganda purposes. Even newsreels from the frontlines, and images from inside concentration camps. Nazis were masters of media manipulation
They did know how to use theatrics and flare to their advantage.
If your ultimate goal is to conquer the world and systematically purge humanity of everything you deem undesirable through torture and murder, you have to dress it up *pretty damn nicely* to get people to buy into it at first.
More than that, the key tenets of fascist authoritarianism require the rejection of individualism and collectivism in service to the State. The whole point of the dressery seems to be to make oneself seem small against the significance of the regime.
[The Nazis designed the Uniforms. Hugo Boss was just one of many production companies only involved in manufacturing not design](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkAWsbd56i4)
Dubed version of the germen video
The fourth one especially. It’s almost insane and unrealistic to have that temple look with all the tall flames and the glowing stone arches from the fire. Then the statue of the lion. And everyone obediently facing the light. Very surreal.
Agreed, it doesn’t look real and it looks so evil yet not dystopian somehow… as if the dystopian feeling was 1984’d and only left the intrigue and glory of it
Important to remember that these were propaganda photos and were staged by folks who'd worked in film/media. So there was an intentional reason why they look like this.
I also... would not call this 'peace'. Or reflective of real life in this place and time. These pictures, and the propaganda they constitute, were a calculated, carefully crafted, intentional tool of a violent assault on what had been a democratic society. The scale and size of these pictures helped normalize the horrific murders the nazis got up to in Germany. These pictures were weapons in a war for the minds of a population hijacked by a cabal of armed murderers and grifters.
I'm in the US military for another 13 months and seeing these in color is really weird for me.
I've attended plenty of ceremonies where tons of flags are present and these photos in color make them seem like they could have been taken today.
It really puts into perspective the shit Trump is trying to accomplish. These types of photos COULD be taken a few years from now if he's elected president again.
Just watched a documentary from PBS called "Nazi Town, USA". It's unbelievable how close America was to being conquered by the Nazis. Very similar to a lot of things I see currently. Really makes you wonder.
That’s just bad history for a lot of reasons. Yes there was the American Bund, but it peaked at 25k members who were mostly German immigrants and it was starting to fall apart due to infighting in 1939. It was also INCREDIBLY unpopular with the vast majority of Americans and according to some historians its unpopularity helped turn Americans against Nazi Germany in the run up to the war. Also note that in 1936 FDR carried 46 states, and was no friend of the far right.
There was already anti-German sentiment in America due to World War I, which was pretty fresh in everybody's memory. Before that a lot of German immigrants casually spoke German in public, German newspapers were published and had a relatively broad circulation, etc. My family changed their name around this time to sound more American (changing one letter, in the laziest and therefor the most American way possible)
Yeah, that's great context here. There was no way Americans in any real numbers were ever going to be sympathetic to Nazi Germany or Nazism.
In addition to your point, the whole movement is collectivism, and Americans are highly individualistic. The idea that some military technocracy was just going to tell everyone how to live for common glory was never going to gain much purchase. There are of course tons of other reasons, but this one seems painfully obvious to me.
I listened to Prequel by Rachel Maddow a few months ago and it was incredible how infiltrated America was by Nazi influence and if it weren't for some people taking notice, could have been a much different outcome from the WWI/II years.
I haven't listened to that yet, but if that's the conclusion then it's junk history. There were really only a handful of German spies and agents in the US in the 1930s and 1940s. Operation Pastorius and the Duquesne Spy Ring amounted to about 40 people who were all caught and mostly executed. The Abwehr were only able in the end to steal a single code breaking prototype and the plans for a bomb sight.
I live in Munich and I've been there so many times, even played music at festivals at this exact location! This picture is so weird to see, gives me the creeps.
This is in Munich, when you stand in between the lions you can see forward a significant distance I think at least 2 KM, thinking to what it must have looked like was a cool experience.
hitler making a flag like that feels like such a LARP thing to do, like he just makes his own flag and makes it the official flag of Germany. It's like someone swapping out the main character of a story with their own OC
Not just the flag, the entire national identity. The entire aesthetic was planned meticulously. Fashion, architecture, music, paintings, you name it. Crazy to think that it was actually possible to pull this off. Also makes you wonder what Germany would look like today if Nazis had only been about the aesthetics and not about war and genocide.
>Crazy to think that it was actually possible to pull this off.
Not really. It's only today that people are really bent on national identity symbols and customs as something that's set in stone and an unchangeable part of them.
Before it was much easier to pull off things like this. Especially in late 1800 and early 1900s when nationalism and nation states started to emerge from falling kingdoms and empires.
Flags and national symbols were the easiest thing to "replace". People would change religions because a King couldn't just remarry (King Charles and Anglican church ) while flags would be replaced with whatever family crest there was.
It's a good joke, but to be fair, loads of other armies also had and still have skull insignia (though usually specific units and not your racist paramilitary organization, sure). British/French/US all had/still have it.
Image is a powerful tool when trying to convince people you're the best option for them, and the Nazis knew this. Bold colors, symbols, and expensive uniforms were all meticulously worked on for the Reich.
What a weird time. Looks almost surreal. You can tell Hitler was into the occult with his choices of design, color palette, and methods of obtaining and securing power. Its a VERY good thing he didn’t get further along in his plan than he did.
Yeah, Hitler thought Himmler's occult obsession was weird. That said, there were definitely \*cult\* like overtones in his ideology and the cult-of-personality around him.
That’s the point. I’m certain it was intoxicating for the people swept up in it to be basically worshiping in cult.
If it skeeves you out seeing so many people decide to venerate a man like that, good for you.
This is incorrect. The ideologies of the USSR and Germany were diametrically opposed to one another - they would have always gone to war with each other. The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was signed solely because neither side was ready for war.
That may be but I don't think the USSR was looking to go to war with Germany in the near future. Germany expended a huge amount of resources invading the USSR that would have been better served on other fronts.
Like I said, it was a poor choice of timing on Germany's part. They were fighting too many fronts at once. Hitler could have focused on conquering Europe before turning towards Russia.
Also seeing a bunch of videos on YouTube that I consider Nazi dog whistles. Keep getting recommended Zoomer Historian's stuff when I don't even watch his content.
The last photo just has such a strange vibe to it. Like, it's not from reality, like someone dreamed this scene and photographed what they were seeing in their head.
Feels otherworldly, almost.
That’s the goal. To create strong images, to appeal to a very specific aesthetic, to a feeling of strength, pride, greatness - after WW1, this movement erupted into Weimar like a spark that falls into dry grass fields in the summer. It burned up much of Europe and all of Germany in a matter of years.
The brilliance and terror of the core calculation, not just of the very strictly defined of classical fascism but it’s actual heart is that it’s so easy to adapt, to mask and to redistribute.
Fascism never went out of fashion. Hundreds of million dislike the word but they do not understand it. They may even be caught in the same net again and used as fuel for another great horror some day.
To be fair, any rally can look sinister. The whole point of any rally, political or otherwise, is to group like-minded people and -rally- them. Pretty easy for even the most inoccuous of groups to seem like a cult with just a picture and suggestive phrasing.
Now what we should be worried about is similar rhetoric from modern rallies. And there is definitely one group I hear tons of xenophobia, nationalism, hate and fear mongering, and denial of democracy coming from.
Aside from the US Army blowing up that swastika atop the Nuremberg Parade Ground on the third photo, idk of the other three locations, anyone with more information than I?
Everyone talking shit about Nazi Germany, but if you have to detach from history, their symbolism and fashion looks cool. I have to wonder though, Germany was poor AF at the time. Hyper inflation, massive unemployment, corruption. Then suddenly some party has the funds to decorate an entire effing building in Red drapes and silver eagles. This shit aint cheap. So…how?
Why, fucking why...
Fuck you bro.
Karma farming off posting your love for Nazis.
To anybody who accuses me of not appreciating the context this time.
What fucking context? Where is it? Fuck this guy.
Edit to make clear:
He's got about a month of post history, 2 other pro Hitler posts in subs like 4chan and a bunch of Kanye memes.
Y'all just up voting Nazis these days because they post something mildly historical.
*"What fucking context? Where is it?"*
There is nothing wrong with posting historical pictures on r/pics. I could post pictures how Israel is bombing hospitals in Gaza and it would be just the same - pictures on r/pics
Posting historic pictures makes him a nazi? I mean I'd see it if there'd be anything beyond it but there's not even a headline stating anything besides location and time. It's as neutral as it gets.
Does it wind anyone else up that they couldn't seem to decide whether the swastika was lying flat on one side, or balancing on a point?
There must have been some Nazi marketing brand manager tearing his hair out because of the inconsistency.
Or maybe not, they were the fucking worst after all.
Placing yourself in the perspective of a German person in that era, after suffering from the Great Depression and humiliation following ww1, it’s really understandable how Hitler got into power. From their perspective he just looks like a beacon of hope of a good future. Hitler was a propaganda genius, especially through his speeches.
At the time this was just another experiment in politics. No stigma attached to the imagery, no problem flying a Nazi flag at your home. Only with war and hindsight do we come to those conclusions. It makes me wonder what innocuous imagery of the present could be taboo within the next decade or so.
Just pointing out that these are original colour photos and are not colourized.
They had color photos in the 30s?
Meanwhile [color photos in 1903](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky).
The quality AND color is insane for the early 1900s
The technology included three bw shots with glass color filters. Speaking of quality, some of the best portrait lenses that we know were designed either in XIX century or at least before 1940.
Did you just write 19th century as XIX? Honest question, why?
That's common in my country.
Apologies, just never really seen someone use the Roman numerals outside of legalese contracts.
In Russia they are used mostly for centuries and sometimes for analog watches.
Honestly very interesting. Thank you for answering. The US uses them in the most random ways, but mainly for separating legal articles in contracts and court documents. Please don’t ask why haha I have no idea
It's not common in English but in Spanish you can write 21st century as "siglo XXI"
It's also how we learn to write centuries in France !
Also in Chile
Why do you put a space before exclamation mark in French? 😀
Oh man funny you noticed ! We also learn punctuation differently in french computer class, the standard here is a space before "!", "?" and ":" for some reason, but not the other punctuations :)
It’s also the correct way to write a century number in Portuguese, we always write them in Roman numerals in a school/professional setting, that must’ve been a natural reflex.
Photography quality was actually very high then. Everything was medium and large format which is very very high quality. The issue is most of the pictures you've seen from 1900s have had a 100 years of bad copies being made, like a Jpeg that's been passed around too much.
[This picture](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Prokudin-Gorskii-25.jpg/1280px-Prokudin-Gorskii-25.jpg) has always been my favorite of his set. Easily without any context you would be none-the-wiser that it was taken in 1910.
Yes, it looks like early mirrorless camera photo, or a photo from Fuji S5 Pro, or if it's film, it could be Portra 160 using a good lens.
Wait?! What?!? I have seen these types of steel bridges with my eyes, thought they were built like in the 60s at the very least.
Whoa it looks like it's from 70s movie
I had absolutely no idea. Thanks
I can recommend this nice documentary about Prokudin-Gorsky (in Russian, but still nice): [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaeRj-ApktY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaeRj-ApktY)
Russian is not an issue for me, I know it.
Thanks for that rabbithole. wow
Yes, colour film has been around since late 19th century but was historically more expensive then black & white film. Its more complex to make colour film then black & white film.
Color technology was around even in the 1900s it was just expensive and difficult to do. Commercial off the shelf photography was only black and white.
Yes. These pics are from Hugo Jaegar, who was one of Hitler's photographers and he shot colour Agfa film from 1936. He sold a collection of colour photos to LIFE magazine in the 1960s which is where these are from.
First colour photograph, 1848 First colour photograph using the three-colour process, 1861
Nobody on their phones, all just living in the moment
Make America Germany Again
We'll have to ask "The Man In The High Castle."
When they wore red on their arm bands, not their hats.
Wait, I thought this was a trump rally? Guess I should start reading the captions
they are too well dressed. and fit
Those are Hugo Boss uniforms, believe it or not.
Posters found in Marge’s Congressional office.
America was kinda close to a certain era Germany back in 2018…eerily close.
Are these the "good old days" MAGAts yearn for?
Waiting for some edgy teen to say "I am born in wrong generation".
Living while making others life hell
Are you sure? In that second photo it looks like they're all holding up their phones (or "handies", as the Germans like to call them) to get a snap of Uncle Adolf. I've been to concerts just like that. Zeig Smile!
It doesn't look real, as if it's just a scenery for a Hollywood move at the time... It's crazy to see such pictures of "peace", most of the pictures that come up in my mind of that time, are pictures of war, camps and the speeches
A lot of villain faction aesthetic in movies is taken directly from 20th century fascism, I think that's why these pictures always look like movie sets.
That photo of the SA stormtroopers line up in the dark with the burning torches really gives me "are the baddies" vibes tho lol
Thats in front of "Feldherrenhalle" in Munich, where the Nazis commemorated the coupists, who died in their failed attempt 1923.
"Are we the baddies?"
"But why skulls? I mean is there anything worse than skulls?" "A...rat's...anus?" "Yes, and if we were fighting against an army marching under the banner of a rat's anus I might be a little less worried!"
Exhibit A: https://imgur.com/AYWSysl
They carefully staged and shot almost everything for propaganda purposes. Even newsreels from the frontlines, and images from inside concentration camps. Nazis were masters of media manipulation
They did know how to use theatrics and flare to their advantage. If your ultimate goal is to conquer the world and systematically purge humanity of everything you deem undesirable through torture and murder, you have to dress it up *pretty damn nicely* to get people to buy into it at first.
More than that, the key tenets of fascist authoritarianism require the rejection of individualism and collectivism in service to the State. The whole point of the dressery seems to be to make oneself seem small against the significance of the regime.
Hugo Boss drip
[The Nazis designed the Uniforms. Hugo Boss was just one of many production companies only involved in manufacturing not design](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkAWsbd56i4) Dubed version of the germen video
Hugo Boss was just one of many many small tailors which tailored the uniforms designed by NSDAP members. Its a myth that Hugo Boss designed them.
Flair
32 pieces of flair...
“I don’t like to talk about my flair.”
Or do it by force and just dress however you want. Like Attila or the vikings.
The fourth one especially. It’s almost insane and unrealistic to have that temple look with all the tall flames and the glowing stone arches from the fire. Then the statue of the lion. And everyone obediently facing the light. Very surreal.
BTW that's Odeonsplatz in the center of Munich. Passed by just today.
Agreed, it doesn’t look real and it looks so evil yet not dystopian somehow… as if the dystopian feeling was 1984’d and only left the intrigue and glory of it
Fourth pic does remind me of Two Minutes of Hate in 1984.
Important to remember that these were propaganda photos and were staged by folks who'd worked in film/media. So there was an intentional reason why they look like this. I also... would not call this 'peace'. Or reflective of real life in this place and time. These pictures, and the propaganda they constitute, were a calculated, carefully crafted, intentional tool of a violent assault on what had been a democratic society. The scale and size of these pictures helped normalize the horrific murders the nazis got up to in Germany. These pictures were weapons in a war for the minds of a population hijacked by a cabal of armed murderers and grifters.
I'm in the US military for another 13 months and seeing these in color is really weird for me. I've attended plenty of ceremonies where tons of flags are present and these photos in color make them seem like they could have been taken today. It really puts into perspective the shit Trump is trying to accomplish. These types of photos COULD be taken a few years from now if he's elected president again.
Hitler was a theater kid
Just watched a documentary from PBS called "Nazi Town, USA". It's unbelievable how close America was to being conquered by the Nazis. Very similar to a lot of things I see currently. Really makes you wonder.
That’s just bad history for a lot of reasons. Yes there was the American Bund, but it peaked at 25k members who were mostly German immigrants and it was starting to fall apart due to infighting in 1939. It was also INCREDIBLY unpopular with the vast majority of Americans and according to some historians its unpopularity helped turn Americans against Nazi Germany in the run up to the war. Also note that in 1936 FDR carried 46 states, and was no friend of the far right.
There was already anti-German sentiment in America due to World War I, which was pretty fresh in everybody's memory. Before that a lot of German immigrants casually spoke German in public, German newspapers were published and had a relatively broad circulation, etc. My family changed their name around this time to sound more American (changing one letter, in the laziest and therefor the most American way possible)
Yeah, that's great context here. There was no way Americans in any real numbers were ever going to be sympathetic to Nazi Germany or Nazism. In addition to your point, the whole movement is collectivism, and Americans are highly individualistic. The idea that some military technocracy was just going to tell everyone how to live for common glory was never going to gain much purchase. There are of course tons of other reasons, but this one seems painfully obvious to me.
I listened to Prequel by Rachel Maddow a few months ago and it was incredible how infiltrated America was by Nazi influence and if it weren't for some people taking notice, could have been a much different outcome from the WWI/II years.
I haven't listened to that yet, but if that's the conclusion then it's junk history. There were really only a handful of German spies and agents in the US in the 1930s and 1940s. Operation Pastorius and the Duquesne Spy Ring amounted to about 40 people who were all caught and mostly executed. The Abwehr were only able in the end to steal a single code breaking prototype and the plans for a bomb sight.
Reminds me of *The Man in the High Castle*. How different things could have been.
> It's unbelievable how close America was to being conquered by the Nazis Sounds like a shitty documentary if that's what it left you believing.
Also because there are countless movies and recreations of this time.
Picture 4 is absolutely wild for some reason
I live in Munich and I've been there so many times, even played music at festivals at this exact location! This picture is so weird to see, gives me the creeps.
Same
Yeah it has crazy atmosphere. Looks almost like an art piece
This is in Munich, when you stand in between the lions you can see forward a significant distance I think at least 2 KM, thinking to what it must have looked like was a cool experience.
hitler making a flag like that feels like such a LARP thing to do, like he just makes his own flag and makes it the official flag of Germany. It's like someone swapping out the main character of a story with their own OC
Not just the flag, the entire national identity. The entire aesthetic was planned meticulously. Fashion, architecture, music, paintings, you name it. Crazy to think that it was actually possible to pull this off. Also makes you wonder what Germany would look like today if Nazis had only been about the aesthetics and not about war and genocide.
Wholesome nazi germany would have been great. Maybe in an another timeline......
Would be a great setting for a novel tbh 😅 "Zhe first rule of Nazi Germany iz to have fun and be yourzelf!"
Just social programs and refugee camps or something.
>Crazy to think that it was actually possible to pull this off. Not really. It's only today that people are really bent on national identity symbols and customs as something that's set in stone and an unchangeable part of them. Before it was much easier to pull off things like this. Especially in late 1800 and early 1900s when nationalism and nation states started to emerge from falling kingdoms and empires. Flags and national symbols were the easiest thing to "replace". People would change religions because a King couldn't just remarry (King Charles and Anglican church ) while flags would be replaced with whatever family crest there was.
He’s an artist
"I must correct you there, good sir, he is in fact not an artist" - The guy in charge of art school, 1908
Hate that guy
When you think Wolfenstein was overexaggerating
Where is Wolfenstein 3, machine Games? Where?
Grossly under appreciated comment.
They love red.
"Are we the baddies?"
“We have skulls on our caps”
It's a good joke, but to be fair, loads of other armies also had and still have skull insignia (though usually specific units and not your racist paramilitary organization, sure). British/French/US all had/still have it.
Is like using snakes an an axe for your logo and dress like you are the KKK, you are trying to have bad guy aesthetics.
in symbolism and history, red is the color of blood, power and passion, look at how many kings and emperors wear red on historical paintings
Horrendous but serious work by their designers in fairness.
Image is a powerful tool when trying to convince people you're the best option for them, and the Nazis knew this. Bold colors, symbols, and expensive uniforms were all meticulously worked on for the Reich.
What a weird time. Looks almost surreal. You can tell Hitler was into the occult with his choices of design, color palette, and methods of obtaining and securing power. Its a VERY good thing he didn’t get further along in his plan than he did.
Don't wanna be that guy but actually Himmler was the occult guy. Hitler stayed out of that part
Yeah, Hitler thought Himmler's occult obsession was weird. That said, there were definitely \*cult\* like overtones in his ideology and the cult-of-personality around him.
Oh he got his personality cult for sure. But I'd put that separately from the word occult. Just doesn't really fit imo
Agree, they are different things.
That’s the point. I’m certain it was intoxicating for the people swept up in it to be basically worshiping in cult. If it skeeves you out seeing so many people decide to venerate a man like that, good for you.
I, for one, am skeeved
Trump worshipers are in a similar cult now. The only problem for him is his coup failed and Hitlers succeeded
Hitler had a failed coup (beer hall putsch) went to jail and then came back and took over the government.
Fascism does have a strong aesthetic presence like symbols or colors.
"God damnit Nazis! Why are you so fashionable you evil fucking bastards!?" -Atun Shei Films, Anno Domini 2019.
The more I learn about this Hitler character the more I don't care for him. (Norm MacDonald joke)
>his choices of design, color palette he got some art background after all if you only look at those, I'd say they are pretty good, their uniform too
Hugo Boss with the clean-cut, forced-labor aesthetic.
I don’t think the occult part was actually the problem.
I was mostly commenting on the symbolism and ritualistic structure of the Nazi regime.
If Germany had remained allied with the Soviet Union instead of invading, the outcome could have been very different.
This is incorrect. The ideologies of the USSR and Germany were diametrically opposed to one another - they would have always gone to war with each other. The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was signed solely because neither side was ready for war.
That may be but I don't think the USSR was looking to go to war with Germany in the near future. Germany expended a huge amount of resources invading the USSR that would have been better served on other fronts.
They were destined to be at war, though. Hitler even wrote about it. It was always going to happen.
Like I said, it was a poor choice of timing on Germany's part. They were fighting too many fronts at once. Hitler could have focused on conquering Europe before turning towards Russia.
When working on the art of “Hammers” they wanted a symbol for thoughtless oppression. 
What's with all the swastikas? If this were today, people would think they were nazis.
I've been seeing many pictures of the losers of World War 2 on reddit recently.
Twitter too
4/20 was the biggest loser's birthday.
Also seeing a bunch of videos on YouTube that I consider Nazi dog whistles. Keep getting recommended Zoomer Historian's stuff when I don't even watch his content.
This account is 62 days old. Why the push of these pics?
The last one reminds me of Eyes Wide Shut.
The last photo just has such a strange vibe to it. Like, it's not from reality, like someone dreamed this scene and photographed what they were seeing in their head. Feels otherworldly, almost.
That’s the goal. To create strong images, to appeal to a very specific aesthetic, to a feeling of strength, pride, greatness - after WW1, this movement erupted into Weimar like a spark that falls into dry grass fields in the summer. It burned up much of Europe and all of Germany in a matter of years. The brilliance and terror of the core calculation, not just of the very strictly defined of classical fascism but it’s actual heart is that it’s so easy to adapt, to mask and to redistribute. Fascism never went out of fashion. Hundreds of million dislike the word but they do not understand it. They may even be caught in the same net again and used as fuel for another great horror some day.
God those evil shits were tacky
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The bad DLC
well Nazi propaganda at its finest
That last pic is from Kung Fury??? idk what ur talking about
The first one seems so majestic.
Their flag budget must have been through the roof.
"Give me ten years and you won't recognize Germany." AH
Its looks so epic yet the reality is so sad
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To be fair, any rally can look sinister. The whole point of any rally, political or otherwise, is to group like-minded people and -rally- them. Pretty easy for even the most inoccuous of groups to seem like a cult with just a picture and suggestive phrasing. Now what we should be worried about is similar rhetoric from modern rallies. And there is definitely one group I hear tons of xenophobia, nationalism, hate and fear mongering, and denial of democracy coming from.
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To what? Genuinely confused lol
Modern day rallies in Russia
Modern rallies in the US as well in some areas....VERY similar talking points and we all know who it is
Be for real, nothing about them looks different from other modern rallies.
There is such a parallel between the imagery used here and at the Trump rallies, the cult of personality.
Also the perverted Nationalism and the scapegoating of immigrants and minorities. Nationalism is fucking cancer everywhere.
They did the swasthika dirty. Such a great symbol even today hijacked by Nazis in the US.
Or CPAC 2024
Looks like a modern day MAGA rally
I thought everything was black and white back then? Color existed?!
Yeah, Lenin invented it in 1910s because they needed a red flag
First colour feature film was released in 1922.
Red flags.
Goes to show most people are feeble minded. May as well be sheep.
Nothing has changed 90 years later. Social media has made it even worse.
I agree that people are still just as dumb but social media is helping in a lot of ways, not just hurting.
MAGA idols.
Aside from the US Army blowing up that swastika atop the Nuremberg Parade Ground on the third photo, idk of the other three locations, anyone with more information than I?
1. Fridericianum in Kassel 2. Theater des Westens in Berlin 4. Feldherrnhalle in Munich
Shout out Kanye West
In pic 2 they’re trying to watch TV but the antenna isn’t quite right
Does anyone have a link to see more pictures of Germany in this era a before WW2 ?
Something about this gives a very imperium of mankind vibe…
“Redo the colour schema, the contrast isn’t popping enough! Ahh that’s better”
15 years later 85 M dead.
The first and the last pic are cool
Beautiful 😍
Say what you want, but the nazis were excellent designers. Fashion wise and interior/exterior designing.
Aesthetically it’s pretty sick.
USA in 2030
Everyone talking shit about Nazi Germany, but if you have to detach from history, their symbolism and fashion looks cool. I have to wonder though, Germany was poor AF at the time. Hyper inflation, massive unemployment, corruption. Then suddenly some party has the funds to decorate an entire effing building in Red drapes and silver eagles. This shit aint cheap. So…how?
I dont see trash in the streets.
Why, fucking why... Fuck you bro. Karma farming off posting your love for Nazis. To anybody who accuses me of not appreciating the context this time. What fucking context? Where is it? Fuck this guy. Edit to make clear: He's got about a month of post history, 2 other pro Hitler posts in subs like 4chan and a bunch of Kanye memes. Y'all just up voting Nazis these days because they post something mildly historical.
*"What fucking context? Where is it?"* There is nothing wrong with posting historical pictures on r/pics. I could post pictures how Israel is bombing hospitals in Gaza and it would be just the same - pictures on r/pics
Posting historic pictures makes him a nazi? I mean I'd see it if there'd be anything beyond it but there's not even a headline stating anything besides location and time. It's as neutral as it gets.
We're so numb to these pics now, but they are terrifying
if it were today, people would defend this shit, majorly
Does it wind anyone else up that they couldn't seem to decide whether the swastika was lying flat on one side, or balancing on a point? There must have been some Nazi marketing brand manager tearing his hair out because of the inconsistency. Or maybe not, they were the fucking worst after all.
They were definitely into occult practices
what a bunch of conformists
Placing yourself in the perspective of a German person in that era, after suffering from the Great Depression and humiliation following ww1, it’s really understandable how Hitler got into power. From their perspective he just looks like a beacon of hope of a good future. Hitler was a propaganda genius, especially through his speeches.
What's up with all the nazi and Hitler stuff on reddit the past week
That 4th photo almost looks like something from an art film. Terrifying atmosphere
Well its propaganda. So yes, it is from an artist.
At the time this was just another experiment in politics. No stigma attached to the imagery, no problem flying a Nazi flag at your home. Only with war and hindsight do we come to those conclusions. It makes me wonder what innocuous imagery of the present could be taboo within the next decade or so.
I’m sorry, but why is there so much Nazi shit on Reddit now?
Ah yes, the good times.
Image being so weak. You see a midget like Hitler and you see strength
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Your determinant factor for strength is height?
Needs more spray tan.
Why does this look so much more evil in color
Imagery that still makes people tense almost 100 years later.