Are we still influenced by nazi propaganda?

[Otern]

Nazi propaganda still going strong...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... itz-museum

Actually, the Poles have every right and reason to be pissed off. I don't agree with the law, just as I don't agree with Holocaust denial being a criminal offense. But this law comes for a reason.

Language matters. This law is coming, because people, especially German media, are now referring to the extermination camps set up by the nazis in Poland as "Polish death camps". Not as "nazi death camps in occupied Poland", or even "death camps in Poland". "Polish death camps."

The same extermination camps the nazis used in their genocide on the Poles.

[Otern]

I think the Nazi propaganda that became most accepted was the notion that the Versailles treaty was unfair, and that it's "harshness" led to WW2.

True. What helped Germany a lot after WW2, was the occupation. An occupied post WW1 Germany would probably have fared better, as it wouldn't give the Freikorps a chance to grow.

[Hastur]

I think the Nazi propaganda that became most accepted was the notion that the Versailles treaty was unfair, and that it's "harshness" led to WW2.

True. What helped Germany a lot after WW2, was the occupation. An occupied post WW1 Germany would probably have fared better, as it wouldn't give the Freikorps a chance to grow.

Yup. Just look at the terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. If that's what Germany considered a reasonable price for losing a war the Versailles treaty was a slap on the wrist in comparison.

[Otern]

The side that was guilty for causing WWI is a contested issue. There is countless scholarship pointing to the British or the Russians being to blamed vs. Germany or Austria etc. etc. Germany's militarism certainly played a part but then so did Russia imperialism and Britain's economic and naval ambitions.

Every major power in Europe was partly guilty of the build up to WW1. But as for who started it? Austria-Hungary and Germany, no doubt. Russia had enough to deal with themselves, they were not ready for a war, and they knew it.

[C-Mag]

Nazi propaganda still going strong...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... itz-museum

Actually, the Poles have every right and reason to be pissed off. I don't agree with the law, just as I don't agree with Holocaust denial being a criminal offense. But this law comes for a reason.

Language matters. This law is coming, because people, especially German media, are now referring to the extermination camps set up by the nazis in Poland as "Polish death camps". Not as "nazi death camps in occupied Poland", or even "death camps in Poland". "Polish death camps."

The same extermination camps the nazis used in their genocide on the Poles.

+1

Language Matters a lot.
You have to have a common language to have a unified nation. People have to be able to communicate.

[Otern]

+1

Language Matters a lot.
You have to have a common language to have a unified nation. People have to be able to communicate.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?c ... nd%3B%2Cc0

Poland definitely have a good reason to be pissed off.