I’ve got this one up on my wall above my PC. It’s vintage 1917.
Did they have an equivalent Godwin’s law back then? Was a discussion officially declared over if there were comparisons to huns or Atilla?
I dunno, a thread about Hitler that links to sites about Jews going out and procreating? That a rather cheerful thought really ;j .
Not only was the discussion declared over, but your computer would explode!
I’ve always liked this one, myself, though I haven’t printed it out. Probably with this one as a close second.
I keep meaning to photoshop a version of the “Mad Brute” with some other guy’s face/features, but I never seem to get around to it…
I’d guess Genghis Khan, Ivan the Terrible, or Attila the Hun.
That was old Kaiser Wilhelm’s usual talk. He used to speak a lot of garbage in public.
Uh, no. It’s from the Huns who invaded Europe under Attila. They were known for brutality, something that Germany was accused of by its many enemies during both world wars.
True. The later Magyar invaders were dubbed “Hungarians” in part because of their similarity to the Huns, but the actual relationship between the two peoples is disputed.
One of the Kaisers was my guess at the OP’s question. There must have been at least one Kaiser who was viewed as pure evil.
Depends. There were only three Kaisers of the Reich that was founded in 1871, and one of them, Friedrich, died after 99 days as Emperor in 1888.
Wilhelm I. was surely loathed by many French because he ruled Prussia when it defeated France in 1870/71; but many anecdotes of him portray him as a modest person who was very much concerned about peace in Europe. His grandson, Wilhelm II., was more of a daredevil and believed he was a better statesman and strategist than he actually was; and German armies that committed cruelties in occupied areas, especially France, during WWI acted in his name. But I don’t think he was viewed as “pure evil”, comparable to Hitler, even in Germany’s enemy countries, during or after the war. Winston Churchill, in his collection of biographies entitled “Great Contemporaries,” doesn’t speak that badly about him.
Insert obligatory *you-owe-me-a-new-monitor. And-a-coke * post here.
Well done, **Excalibre ** and Pravnik.
da hell? That question mark on the poster is well deserved. What am I supposed to glean from that poster?
“Why is this disembodied ape torso dripping blood on a confusingly colored Earth? Enlist in the Army and find out the answer!”
I think it’s supposed to be more like “Do you want the German beasts to bloodily conquer the entire planet?”.
Hmmm, Australia seems to be undergoing rapid continental drift, going by that poster. Perhaps playing Hide-N-Seek with Antarctica, which is nowhere to be seen.
Hey, ya know, suddenly I’m filled with an urge to live in a muddy trench, sitting by the grammophone, waiting for orders to storm a hillside at dawn. Where do I sign up?
You have no idea how hard it is being a disembodied torso these days. And a disembodied torso with arms and a head? Fuhgeddaboutit! You tell people what you are and they keel over laughing!