RE: It's true - potential cannon fodder trying to escape Russia21 Sep 2022 18:58
I was helping my 10 year old grandson with his homework last night and read this as part of his history course :
''The Nazis wanted Germans to support the Nazi dictatorship and believe in Nazi ideas. To accomplish this goal, they tried to control forms of communication through censorship and propaganda. This included control of newspapers, magazines, books, art, theater, music, movies, and radio.
How did the Nazis use censorship?
Through decrees and laws, the Nazis abolished civil rights and destroyed German democracy. Starting in 1934, it was illegal to criticize the Nazi government. Even telling a joke about Hitler was considered treachery. People in Nazi Germany could not say or write whatever they wanted.
Examples of censorship under the Nazis included:
Closing down or taking over anti-Nazi newspapers
Controlling what news appeared in newspapers, on the radio, and in newsreels;
Banning books that the Nazis categorized as un-German
Arresting and eventually murdering dissident citizens
Controlling what soldiers wrote home during World War II''
Sound familiar and how ironic the current despot uses anti-Nazism as his fig leaf
LOR