Reading the excerpts from the Nazi press is chilling. The bombastic rhetoric is really over the top, but it’s chilling for two reasons.
1: It was really just a preview of coming attractions. The German leadership really did want a war, and their propaganda machine was trying to whip up fervor for one. It presaged the most destructive global war of all time.
2: This crap is being printed yet today in places like Tehran and Pyongyang.
agree that the similarity to today is striking. todays poland/danzig is Israel and palestine. like danzig, a somewhat artificial creation of boundries, with conflicting claims unresolved. like germany then Iran today threatening to “wipe off map”, today, like then, many dismissing it as just rhetoric, not taking it seriously.
how wrong they were.