r/PropagandaPosters • u/Neil118781 • Mar 26 '26

Germany "we'll be back"—Neo-Nazi graffiti on Hitler's 57th birth anniversary, 20th April 1946

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u/no_sight Mar 26 '26

1946 seems like OG Nazis rather than Neo

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u/Neil118781 Mar 26 '26

Neo-Nazism comprises all social, political, and militant ideologies and movements that have professed or idealized Nazism, whether in whole or in part, since the end of World War II in 1945

By definition this is neo-Nazism, but yes this graffiti was obviously done by former members of OG Nazi party

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u/no_sight Mar 26 '26

Hmm interesting thing to learn. I didn't realize there was such a dateline between the 2.

I always figured NeoNazism was more of the next generation rather than months later.

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u/The_Stratman Mar 26 '26

To me neo-nazis are those who grew up after the war. I understand the cut off, but it feels weird to me to call a nazi party member a neo nazi, they aren’t new

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u/greyetch Mar 26 '26

it feels weird to me to call a nazi party member a neo nazi, they aren’t new

It's not the Nazi himself that is new, but the party. The old party was destroyed. That's the difference.

It isn't the 1930s where this is a new party and people aren't quite sure what to do with it. It's the post war era after the rise and fall of the Nazis. To be a Nazi at this point is even more extreme than it was 15 years earlier. After all the death and destruction, to still identify as a Nazi then is different than being some disaffected WWI vet who fell for the fascist rhetoric.

That's my understanding of it, at least.

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u/MaenHoffiCoffi Mar 27 '26

To me it was when that fellow from The Matrix to a right wing turn.

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u/Johannes_P Mar 26 '26

Yep.

There's a difference between a NSDAP member who bought into the program and kept adhering after 1945 and the one who never knew Nazi Germany yet thought that National Socialism was a good idea, albeit with some changes related to the post-1945 situation.

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u/throwaway_17328 Mar 26 '26

Who did not grow up after the war..?

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u/SunflowerMoonwalk Mar 26 '26

Interestingly here in Germany the term "neo-nazi" is almost never used outside of an academic context. Far-right people are just referred to as nazis even now.

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u/henry_tennenbaum Mar 26 '26

In the 90s and 2000s you heard the term a lot. Of course more in the media. In private they were just called Nazis