Dude, who even knows.

10th February 2021

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Flush with calories in contrast to WWI and mindful of its propaganda demonization in that war, Nazi Germany put a reasonable effort into maintaining adequate POW camps for at least captured Western Allies, and it feels weird to think about Nazi PR but if you consider Hogan’s Heroes, it kinda worked

  1. big-edies-sun-hat reblogged this from animate-mush and added:
    I watched The Producers the other night, and there are jokes that are too dated, but making fun of Nazis never gets old
  2. afraid-of-woodpeckers reblogged this from andthentheywilleatthestars and added:
    It definitely had something to do with making the Nazis look incompetent. I'm not going to claim I understand all of it...
  3. andthentheywilleatthestars reblogged this from animate-mush
  4. animate-mush reblogged this from businesstiramisu and added:
    If I had to guess, I would say there was a value and catharsis in making the Nazis ridiculous. Strip the horror of it's...
  5. businesstiramisu reblogged this from rendakuenthusiast and added:
    woah that is really weird... i was gonna say that maybe it just wasn't as well known a thing --IIRC the US...
  6. arcticdementor reblogged this from rendakuenthusiast
  7. rendakuenthusiast reblogged this from arcticdementor and added:
    I’ve never seen Hogan’s Heroes, but it’s always struck me as kind of odd that in the 1960s, some 20 years after WWII,...
  8. kontextmaschine posted this
    Flush with calories in contrast to WWI and mindful of its propaganda demonization in that war, Nazi Germany put a...