Those Nazi posters

Dark times indeed. I didn't actually look at that page in detail, just thought it would be useful.

The page I was actually looking for was a sheet on info on the British Freikorps, a SS battalion formed from britsh and commonwealth citizens. The author Guy walters had a lot of info on this crowd, including some posters fetauring ss men with union jack shoulder flashes, but he seems to have taken it down. He does have a very interesting editorial about the popularity bordering on fetishism of nazism in britain.

Basically he puts it down to the nazis blend of iconocraphy, ceremony, military and technological brilliance, and of course, brutality. No other civilisation for want of a better word has ever really combined these, and certainly not in relatively recent times. That's what gets me, all of this was within living memory (only just now) and carried out by supposedly civilised people. Sure there are similar things going on today, but either they are on a much smaller scale, or take place between those lesser folk that we don't worry so much about, africans, arabs, or eastern europeans, but certainly not western europeans! (tongue-in-cheek). Ranulf Fiennes "The secret hunters" has some very good (albeit fictional)( accounts of the sorts of things described in those posters, the attrocities commited by the SS, and the similar atrocities carried in modern day Rwanda.

(back onto guy walters) He talks of a fictional schoolboy, getting into war comics and so on, but preferring the germans to the allies. I was always like that - loved making WWII models, but the germans always had the best kit, most stylish uniforms, and more models available than othe countries.

Oh thats just scary, they all say "buy me" just like some kind of twisted cute evil little kitten. The iconography is just as powerfull today as it was then.