A 1930s German poster depicting a warning of a dystopian France in 100 years, where French people have been degraded to zoo exhibit animals.

✠︎ How Hitler's Stand Fast Order Prevented Collapse December 19, 1941 84 years ago today, Adolf Hitler overrides his Generals and orders the “stand fast” (Haltbefehl) policy that forbade large-scale retreats and demanded troops hold their ground despite impossible

✠︎ Reich Relics

Stemming from the Allied demand of 132 billion gold marks, in reparations for World War 1, the suffering bred profound despair, hunger, and social collapse, leaving deep scars on German society. More info in the photo alt descriptions.

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In Weimar Germany, children were playing with currency that had become virtually worthless. 1 US dollar equalled 4,210,500,000,000 Reichsmarks. Life savings reduced to stacks of worthless paper that families burned for warmth or hauled in wheelbarrows to buy a loaf of bread.

1950’s LA, California.

🇺🇸 Here’s what Los Angeles, California, looked like in 1950. https://t.co/00w1UNMlzX

🇺🇸 Here’s what City Hall in San Francisco, California, looked like in 1935.

✠︎ Blitzkrieg Explained

✠︎ During the final days of World War 2, pilot Hanna Reitsch flew into the besieged capital of Berlin, dodging heavy fire to an improvised airstrip near the Brandenburg Gate. However, Adolf Hitler chose to remain in Berlin, and Reitsch narrowly escaped the city's fall.

👨🏻 🇬🇧 King Edward VIII meets Adolf Hitler.

👨🏻 🩺 Adolf Hitler's Jewish Doctor? Dr. Eduard Bloch was a Jewish physician who was the Hitler family's personal doctor. He treated Hitler's mother for breast cancer, reducing or even sometimes eliminating her medical bills. Hitler declared him an ‘Honorary Aryan’.

👨🏻 🍊 Hitler Invented Fanta? During WW2, embargoes and wartime shortages halted shipments of Coca-Cola syrup to Germany. Max Keith, head of Coca-Cola Germany, developed a new soft drink called Fanta, which was highly popular during the war.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 An average day in England during 1902.

👨🏻 🇵🇱 Adolf Hitler in Poland, looking at the bust of Józef Piłsudski, the First Marshal of Poland. Hitler admired Piłsudski, hoping he had lived to allow an alliance with Poland to help deter the threat posed by the communist colossus in the East. After war broke out, Hitler

卐 🥩 Raw food advocate Aajonus Vonderplanit claimed that the Germans in the Third Reich consumed 20 times more steak tartare and raw eggs, attributing it to their robust health.

"He (Adolf Hitler) had put his name on a piece of paper, the Geneva Gas Protocol saying that he would never use gas first because it would be a war crime." - David Irving

👨🏻 🇺🇸 Adolf Hitler Explains Why He Declared War on America