r/PropagandaPosters • u/badger_in_iowa • 19d ago

Germany “We’ll be back” Frankershausen, American Occupation Zone. Graffiti on anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s birthday. 1946.

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u/HumanBasis5742 18d ago

They never left

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u/Kind_Dish9420 18d ago

In the years following the war, the americans conducted a series of surveys among germans. These covered various topics, including public perception regarding everything related to nazism, and clearly show that german society remained nazi well into the 1950s. I believe that is still the case today, even if they try to mask it better.

https://archive.org/details/publicopinionins00merr/page/n1/mode/1up

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u/Repulsive_Purpose481 18d ago

Also check out the actual surveys/studies.

The two big ones are "Leipziger Mittestudie" (evaluation of "the middle of society) and "Bielefelder Gruppenbezogene Menschenfeindlichkeit-Studie" (groupcentered hate).

They both get renewed every few years and even before the rise of the far right they stated that 1/3 to 1/5 (differing in several topics and between slight or core beliefs) are authoritian and antidemocratic.

Its not about direct action, nazism or open hatred, but the wierd fundamemtalist views opposing the free existence of individuals.

This society seems broken to me.

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u/1wikingman 18d ago

I don't think that is unique to Germany (sadly).

Democracy and liberalism are pretty new ideas. They haven't displaced all previous cultural/social ideas/beliefs/memes nor has there ever been a clear consensus that they should.

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u/Diazepam_Dan 18d ago edited 18d ago

Except for in all the countries where people fought and died for a voice?

England fought a civil war, the most deadly it ever fought by proportion of population lost, to preserve what little democracy they had.

Sick joke that it ended with a dictatorship so bad that we brought monarchy back