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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Inside Nazi Germany" (1938) March of Time newsreel
This was mainstream American news. See how they call out fascism, discrimination, and propaganda without hesitation.
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"Inside Nazi Germany" (1938) March of Time newsreel (Original Post)
ChicagoRonin
Mar 2024
OP
I was always told newsreels were show in theaters before the headline event.
bucolic_frolic
Mar 2024
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erronis
(15,994 posts)1. Fascinating and frightening.
And this was produced before the US entered the war. Wonder how it was received (or even viewed) by the general public.
bucolic_frolic
(44,771 posts)3. I was always told newsreels were show in theaters before the headline event.
bucolic_frolic
(44,771 posts)2. That's a find!
We did not accept what they were trying to do. Now MSM is weak.
Kid Berwyn
(16,263 posts)4. Today MAGA would do the same.
"Every known radical, every known liberal, is either in hiding, in prison or dead."
NBachers
(17,515 posts)5. It brings to scale today's tinpot republican failures who suck at the pig-teat of Russian expansionism.
Irish_Dem
(53,281 posts)6. Chilling. We are seeing the same thing now in the 21st century.
The rise of fascism determined to destroy democracy.
Timeflyer
(2,314 posts)7. "Under fascism the dictator is a demi-god who can do no wrong..." Amazing--the warning signs were all there in 1938.