America now has it’s equivalent of the German-Austrian Tyrrant.
We’ll see how far ours will be allowed to go.
Um, I thought all they had back then was Kodachrome (color positives, aka slides).
It’s strange to see these in color.
http://www.life.com/image/50715743/in-gallery/27022/adolf-hitler-up-close
There’s was an earlier thread on this.
Calling the infamous Nazi salute “sickening” is odd because it was just a salute [ nothing sickening in that ] which was modeled on the old Roman salute & was even still being used in the USA during the Pledge of Allegiance up until the same time period.
http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/24691/wwii-dday-and-operation-overlord
Some timely photos from D-Day operations as well
Hitler watches military maneuvers in the spring of 1940:
“The great strength of the totalitarian state,” Hitler once said, “is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.”
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Unfortunately, he got that one right. Hitler/Benito/Stalin/Tojo were clearly seen as Men of Destiny and the wave of the future back in the thirties. He was the beau idol of the “liberals” and “progressives” over here then... much as they have striven to rewrite history.
Adolf Hitler: Up Close
Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images | Feb 17, 1939 | Hugo Jaeger
Posted on 06/04/2009 4:05:07 PM PDT by lqcincinnatus
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