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EDITION 01

WW II: GERMANY 1939 - 1945

The System Genocide - Modern Crime

(Rafael Lemkin)

The Jerrys

Input WW2

Little Boys

Top ten weapons

Warriors

Interview: Martha Gutman

In this year MAYDAY MAGAZINE magazine has become a benchmark for dissemination of knowledge of history and art, through the publication of original and unpublished articles, with a strong demand in the arbitration processes with academic peers of recognized research experience . Likewise, the journal has been positioned in the historical community as a means of consultation and curiosity about contexts and theories of research, especially on issues of War, Weapons, Art, Strategies and Survivors.

THE JERRYS

‘Kraut’, ‘Jerry’ or Fritz.

troops generally preferred ‘Heinie’,

in the RAF. Canadian and American

the British army and navy, and ‘Hun’

British troops were ‘Jerry’ and ‘Fritz’ in

during the Second World War used by

The terms of contempt in English

FUCK NAZIS

The Holocaust was the systematic persecution and murder, bureaucratically organized and sponsored by the state of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin that means “sacrifice by fire”. The Nazis, who rose to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that the Germans were a “superior race”, that the Jews were “inferior” and that they represented a threat to the so-called German racial community.

During the Holocaust era, the German authorities also persecuted other groups because of their perceived “racial inferiority”, such as the Roma (gypsies), people with disabilities and some of the Slavic peoples (such as the Poles, the Russians and others). Other groups were persecuted for political, ideological and behavioral reasons, including communists, socialists, Jehovah’s Witnesses and homosexuals.

In this volume some editorial aspects are perfected, in line with the national and international standards and criteria on histories and art publications. The number of external and international authors is increasing remarkably, as evidence of the interest and motivation of internal and external researchers to publish in our magazine.

The magazine is a monthly publication that enters a phase of new challenges and commitments, with the aim of having greater visibility and impact, especially on international bases, aspects that will be supported in a joint effort of the team of collaborators, both academic and administrative, in the dynamic effort of the members of the committee of art, editorial and in the leadership of the editor, thus giving greater assurance of reaching such goals in the very near future.

We reiterate our gratitude to those who have collaborated in the origin, growth and greater projection of the magazine MAYDAY MAGAZINE. Likewise, the academic and curious community and before the “Art of War” and related areas are invited to submit their scientific articles for potential publication of this editorial.

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REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS / PHOTOGRAPHERS Martha Gutman, Rafael Lemkin, Jennifer Chan, Larry Carrillo, Beatriz Navarrete, Tekha Hernández, Eduardo Centeno, Lorena Akiramoto, Adam Sandler, Jhonny Deppson, Hilary Duff.

Brief introduction to the central theme of the magazine, according to the chosen time.

(The Second World War)

Article about the arms industry, its history according to the time and the art of carrying a weapon and using it, likewise the best weapons today and their evolution.

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Scientific Investigation On the tactics, the procedure and strategy of how a war was carried out according to the time of the magazine, its most relevant facts, its leader and war controversies.

Interview in depth and seriousness, articles of opinion, punctual visual references of the anecdotes, testimonies of relevance as lived.

Reviews, Highlights on the inspiration of the war from art, music, movies and paintings in the rest of the world.

WARRIORS THE MAQUIS

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CONTENT THE JERRYS LITTLE BOYS MANHATTAN PROYECT THE SYSTEM

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“D O N OT CO M PAR E YO UR S EL F TO OT H ER S , I F YO U S O D O, YO U AR E I N S ULT I N G YO UR S EL F” ADOLF HITLER

Weapons that they carried, in which they trusted and cared for as they crossed the hard roads of the cities of Europe, the deserts of Africa and the suffocating jungles of the South Pacific. Weapons that gave them a small advantage over their enemies, the weapons that saved their lives and ended with those of their enemies, weapons that define the iconography of a global struggle. These are the ten best infantry weapons of the Second World War.

5.-THE STEN GUN

6.- THE MP40

USA put into service one of the most famous rifles of all time, the M1 Garand.

It was easy to use, take care and quick to load, giving to the US forces. superiority in the rate of fire over all the forces they faced.

2.- PPSH - 41 A mass-produced marvel, easy to manufacture and easy to use, at the height of the war, Russian factories produced 3,000 a day.

It could be equipped with a drum-shaped magazine with a capacity of 71 rounds, giving the Russians superior firepower in short-range fights.

9.-KNIFE KA -BAR

( 4 ) The Luger P08 was the last

symbol of the narcissistic image of the Nazis: powerful, precise and absolutely deadly.

( 5 ) The Steven Gun cartridge would 3.THE THOMPSON MACHINE GUN There are several machine guns on this list, but none is as iconic as the Thompson machine gun. After having achieved notoriety in the Irish civil war and in the hands of the gangsters, the Thompson was adopted by the US Army. before the start of the war.

have it on one side and a thin profile.It was not the perfect weapon and could be temperamental, but at close range it was capable of incredible destruction.

( 6 ) The MP40 were so effective

that the German planners considered their dependence on semi-automatic weapons or bolton weapons, which led to the development of assault rifles.

( 7 ) The M1 Carabine In need of a

weapon that was easily stored and easily accessible to these soldiers, the US Army he created the M1 carbine. It was not the most powerful weapon of war, but it was light, small and precise.

( 1 0 ) Karabiner

98K was the unconditional weapon of the German army and remained in production until the German surrender in 1945. Of all the rifles that were in service during the war, the Karabiner 98k was considered the best.

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It is often remembered as the first technological war, however, many of the battles of World War II were fought with nothing more advanced than men and their weapons.

4.- LUGER PO8

1.- M1 GARAND

7.-M1 CARBINE

8.- GRANADES

World War II was the largest and bloodiest conflict in human history.

Millions died, empires rose and fell, there was no corner of the planet that was saved from destruction, fire and death that left this war in its wake.

10.- PPSH - 41

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TOP 10 ARMS OF THE WWII

The 6th and 9th of August marks the 73th anniversary of the United States’ atomic bomb attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Events that ended the Second World War

15 Kilotones (Tons of dynamite)

E N G O L A G AY

Manhattan Project

LITTLE BOY

Maximum speed: 574 km/h (25,000 feet) Cruising speed: 354 Km / h Scope: 9,656 Maximum Miles

4000 Weight Kilos The B-29 Enola Gay dropped the “little boy”

3m

atomic bomb, over the center of the city.

The bomb exploded more than 500 meters high 71cm

THE CAUSES During the Second World

FAT M A N

atomic bombing of Japan to force

SURVIVORS WITHOUT SEQUELS

SEVERE DAMAGE TO S O M E S TA N D I N G CONSTRUCTIONS

SURVIVORS WITH SEQUELS SERIOUS DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS

DEAD AFTER MONTHS OR YEARS

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him to surrender.

1,000 km/h

ordered the

of 3,900 degrees Celsius and winds of

Harry Truman,

original plan and generated a temperature

1.50cm

the United States,

4500 Weight Kilos

the president of

21 Kilotones (Tons of dynamite)

(1939 - 1945),

bomb in the Urakami valley 3 km from the

years of battle

The B-29 Bockscar dropped the “fat man”

3.29m

War and after

Genocide / A Modern Crime “ONE of the great mistakes of 1918 was to spare the civil life of the enemy countries, for it is necessary for us Germans to be always at least double the numbers of the peoples of the contiguous countries. We are therefore obliged to destroy at least a third of their inhabitants. The only means is organized underfeeding which in this case is better than machine guns.”

This article first appeared during World War II in the April 1945 issue of FREE WORLD - “A NonPartisan Magazine devoted to the United Nations and Democracy,” published in five languages.

Free World, Vol. 4 (April, 1945), p. 39- 43]

THE FÜHRER

The article summarized for a popular audience the concepts Lemkin originally presented in Chapter 9 of Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in November 1944.

Genocide / A modern crime

THE SYSTEM

The speaker was Marshal von Rundstedt addressing the Reich War Academy in Berlin in 1943. He was only aping the Fuhrer who had said, “Natural instincts bid all living human beings not merely conquer their enemies but also destroy them. In former days it was the victor’s prerogative to destroy tribes, entire peoples.”

Hitler was right. The crime of the Reich in wantonly and deliberately wiping out whole peoples is not utterly new in the world. It is only new in the civilized world as we have come to think of it. It is so new in the traditions of civilized man that he has no name for it.

coming world.”

major problem facing the

international law. This is a

and jurisdiction of future

brought within the scope

of Europe by Hitler, must be

practiced against the peoples

murder, as planned and

“International premeditated

R A FA E L L E M K I N

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Holocausto Mauthausen.

Anonymous photograph

It is for this reason that I took the liberty of inventing the word, “genocide.” The term is from the Greek word genes meaning tribe or race and the Latin cide meaning killing. Genocide tragically enough must take its place in the dictionary of the future beside other tragic words like homicide and infanticide. As Von Rundstedt has suggested the term does not necessarily signify mass killings although it may mean that.

More often it refers to a coordinated plan aimed at destruction of the essential foundations of the life of national groups so that these groups

wither and die like plants that have suffered a blight. The end may be accomplished by the forced disintegration of political and social institutions, of the culture of the people, of their language, their national feelings and their religion. It may be accomplished by wiping out all basis of personal security, liberty, health and dignity. When these means fail the machine gun can always be utilized as a last resort.

Genocide is directed against a national group as an entity and the attack on individuals is only secondary to the annihilation of the national group to which each country they belong.

Terms such as “nationalization” or rather “Germanisation” that have been used so far do not adequately convey the full force of the new phenomenon of genocide. They signify only the substitution of the national pattern of the oppressor for the original national pattern but not the destruction of the biological and physical structure of the oppressed group by Germany.

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populations found themselves exposed to the bloodthirsty and methodical application of the German program of genocide.

A hierarchy of racial values determined the ultimate fate of the many peoples that fell under German domination. Jews were to be completely annihilated. The Poles, the Slovenes, the Czechs, the Russians, and all other infe-

rior Slav peoples were to be kept on the lowest social levels.

Those felt to be related by blood, the Dutch, the Norwegian, the Alsatians, etc., were to have the alternatives of entering the German community by espousing “Germanism” or of sharing the fate of the inferior peoples.

P H Y S I C A L S T R AT E G Y

B I O L O G I C A L S T R AT E G Y

E C O N O M I C S T R AT E G Y

M O R A L S T R AT E G Y

R E L I G I O U S S T R AT E G Y

C U LT U R A L S T R AT E G Y

S O C I A L S T R AT E G Y

The political cohesion of the conquered countries was intended to be weakened by dividing them into more or less selfcontained and hermetically enclosed zones, as in the four zones of France, the ten zones of Yugoslavia, the five zones of Greece; by partitioning their territories to create puppet states, like Croatia and Slovakia; by detaching territory for incorporation in the Greater Reich, as was done with western Poland, Alsace-Lorraine, Luxembourg, Slovenia. Artificial boundaries were created to prevent communication and mutual assistance by the national groups involved.

The most direct and drastic of the techniques of genocide is simply murder.

It may be the slow and scientific murder by mass starvation or the swift but no less scientific murder by mass extermination in gas chambers, wholesale executions or exposure to disease and exhaustion.

Food rations of all territory under German domination were established on racial principles, ranging in 1943 from 93% of its pre-war diet for the German inhabitants to 20% of its pre-war diet for the Jewish population.

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GERMANY has transformed an ancient barbarity into a principle of government by dignifying genocide as a sacred purpose of the German people. National Socialism is the doctrine of the biological superiority of the German people. Long before the war nazi leaders were unblushinghly announcing to the world and propagandizing to the Germans themselves the program of genocide they had elaborated. Like Hitler and Von Rundstedt, the official nazi philosopher Alfred Rosenberg declared “History and the mission of the future no longer mean the struggle of class against class, the struggle of church dogma against dogma, but the clash between blood and blood, race and race, people and people.”

As the German war machine placed more and more defeated nations under the full control of nazi authorities, their civilian

P O L I T I C A L S T R AT E G Y

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THE SYSTEM

Philosophy of Genocide

P O L I T I C A L S T R AT E G Y

WELCOME JEWS

P O L I T I C A L S T R AT E G Y

Techniques

Holocausto Mauthausen.

Anonymous photograph

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of Genocide

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he Germans sought to obliterate every reminder of former cultural patterns. In the incorporated areas the local language, place names, personal names, public signs and inscriptions were supplanted by German inscriptions.

German was to be the language of the courts, of the schools, of the government and of the street.

In Alsace-Lorraine and Luxembourg, French was not even permitted as a language to be studied in primary schools. The function of the schools was to preserve and strengthen nazism. Attendance at a German school compulsory through the primary grades and three years of secondary school.

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he genocidal purpose of destroying or degrading the economic foundations of national groups was to lower the standards of living and to sharpen the struggle for existence, that no energies might remain for a cultural or national life. Jews were immediately deprived of the elemental means of existence by expropriation and by forbidding them the right to work. Polish property in western incorporated Poland was confiscated and Poles denied licenses to practice trades or handicrafts, thus reserving trade all to the Germans.

WELCOME TO: BUCHENWALD “TO EACH HIS OWN”

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B I O L O G I C A L S T R AT E G Y

he social structure of a nation is vital to its national development.

Therefore the German occupant endeavored to bring about changes that weakened national spiritual resources.

The focal point of this attack has been the intelligentsia, because this group largely provides leadership. In Poland and Slovenia the intellectuals and the clergy were to a large extent either murdered or removed for forced labor in Germany. Intellectuals and resistants of all occupied countries were marked for execution. Even among the blood-related Dutch some 23,000 were killed, the greater number of them being leading members of their communities.

and in hand with the undermining of religious influence went devices for the moral debasement of national groups. Pornographic publications and movies were foisted upon the Poles.

Alcohol was kept cheap although food became increasingly dear, and peasants were legally bound to accept spirits for agricultural produce.

Although under Polish law gambling houses had been prohibited, German authorities not only permitted them to come into existence, but relaxed the otherwise severe curfew law.

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M O R A L S T R AT E G Y

C U LT U R A L S T R AT E G Y

herever religion represented a vital influence in the national life, the spiritual power of the Church was undermined by various means. In Luxembourg children over 14 were protected by law against criticism if they should renounce their religious affiliations for membership in nazi youth organizations.

In the puppet state of Croatia an independent, but German-dominated Orthodox Church was created for Serbs, in order to destroy forever the spiritual ties with the Patriarch at Belgrade. With the special violence and thoroughness reserved for Poles and Jews, Polish church property was pillaged and despoiled and the clergy subjected to constant persecution.

n the other hand, every means to decrease the birth rate among “racial inferiors” was used. Millions of war prisoners and forced laborers from all the conquered countries of Europe were kept from contact with their wives. Poles in incorporated Poland met obstacles in trying to marry among themselves. Chronic undernourishment, deliberately created by the occupant, tended not only to discourage the birth rate but also to an increase in infant mortality. Coming generations in Europe were thus planned to be predominantly of German blood, capable of overwhelming all other races by sheer numbers.

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WELCOME TO: AUSCHWITZ “WORK MAKES FREE”

WHEN AN OPPONENT DECLARES, “I WILL NOT COME OVER TO YOUR SIDE,” I CALMLY SAY, “YOUR CHILD BELONGS TO US ALREADY… WHAT ARE YOU? YOU WILL PASS ON. YOUR DESCENDANTS, HOWEVER, NOW STAND IN THE NEW CAMP. IN A SHORT TIME THEY WILL KNOW NOTHING ELSE BUT THIS NEW COMMUNITY.

IRENE FOGEL WEISS

WARRIORS

Born in 1930 in Bótrágy, Czechoslovakia, now Batrad, Ukraine. She lives in Virginia, US. She will be returning to Auschwitz for the third time, as part of the US presidential delegation, along with her daughter, Lesley Weiss.

We lived in Bótrágy, a very small, mostly poor town in Czechoslovakia with a population of approximately 1,000 mainly farming families, including about 10 Jewish families. The town was a typical low-income community with a tailor, a shoemaker, a grocery store, where people struggled to get by, but where everyone knew each other and there was easy communication between the neighbours, though that didn’t mean we were equal.

Irene Fogel Weiss holds a photo of her that was taken at Auschwitz by two Nazi guards.

Photograph: Jocelyn Augustino

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“WELCOME TO HELL, I WA S TO L D ” When I was eight years old Czechoslovakia broke apart and we became part of Hungary. That was when our problems started, because the Hungarians were allied with the Nazis. It was a difficult time for Jewish families, as suddenly the law no longer protected us and overnight we

lost our civil rights.

My father’s lumber business was confiscated and given to a non-Jew, and we received no compensation. Jewish children were thrown out of Hungarian schools, so right away we had no choice but to concentrate on hunkering down and trying not

It’s an incredibly scary feeling when you’re exposed to anyone’s raw feelings and enmity. These young Nazis habitually roamed around and did tremendous damage to many individuals. But at least we were still in our community and were not evicted from our home, so that was some comfort.

“This is my last chance to make sure this tragedy is not forgotten” IRENE FOGEL WEISS

to bring attention to ourselves.

We couldn’t ride the trains and we had to wear the yellow star. It was a free for all.

With no law to protect us, it was common for Jews to get beaten up or thrown off the train.

We didn’t have radio or much access to newspapers, so all the children were reliant on listening to their parents for information. But I remember many things about t he course of the war, who was winning and losing, and the repression of Jews elsewhere.

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Another picture we discovered shows my family waiting in line for the gas chamber. Two little boys, my brothers Reuven and Gershon, are shown dressed in hats, one struggling to put on his winter coat. For a long time I failed to find my mother and was very unhappy.

But I spent hours looking at these photos with a magnifying glass and one day I found her little face sticking out.

IRENE FOGEL WEISS

all it was, as we had no clue then that this was a very carefully orchestrated plan of genocide.

We could not have imagined that they would kill little children, until we realised that killing children was their primary goal to prevent any new generations.

Because desperate people will always look to find some sign of

In the left foreground, Irene Fogel Weiss’ two brothers, Reuven and Gershon Fogel, are pictured at Auschwitz; their mother, Lenke Mermelstein Fogel, is seated on the ground behind them.

All perished at the Nazi concentration camp Photograph: Yad Vashem

“All of a sudden you are told to leave it all and walk out with a single suitcase”

My sister was sent with my mother, while I went to the opposite side. That was the first chance I had to survive.

Unbeknown to any of us at the time, two Nazi soldiers had been asked to make a photographic document of the deportation of Hungarian Jews from the moment they got off the train – through the entire system of arriving, going to the bath house and getting their prison clothes – so I ended up in a picture at the very moment I was separated from my sister. It captures me standing alone without my family on the Auschwitz platform, and I’m leaning inwards to see where my little sister has gone.

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A DAMN PLACE

hope, we thought to ourselves even if we have to work, at least we’ll see each other occasionally.

But the German system was full of this sort of deception.

It counted on people’s normal perception of things. Thinking we were going to a work camp.

Thinking that you were going to take a shower when in fact you were going to the gas chambers – that was the ultimate deceit.

When we arrived it was, as I later found out, the usual story, though not to us at the time. Our family was torn apart on the platform on arriving. My sister, Serena, was chosen for slave labour. My mother and the younger children were sent off to one side and my father and 16 - year - old brother to the other side. I held tightly on to the hand of my 12 - year - old sister and for an instant I was mistaken for being older than I was, probably because I was wearing a headscarf that my mother had given me and the only beautiful memory he has of my mother.

Irene Fogel Weiss holds a photo of her that was taken at Auschwitz by two Nazi guards.

Photograph: Jocelyn Augustino for the Guardian

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Imagine it like this: three generations of your family have lived in the same house in the same town. They’ve struggled to raise a family, put kids through school, to feed them all. You have your friends and family. All of a sudden you are told to leave it all and walk out with a single suitcase. I remember the night of the packing very well. Things went in the suitcase, things were taken out of the suitcase. In the end my mother filled it with food she had cooked and warm clothing and bedding. Then it was full. Plus we took a watch, some earrings, a wedding ring with us to exchange for food if necessary. The next day my grandfather was forced to hand over his remaining money to a delegation that included the mayor and the school principal as they rounded us up at the town hall. We had been absolutely unaware of such a place as Auschwitz. It was a stunning reversal of the life we had had up until then.

And I cannot emphasise enough how utterly scary it is to be at the mercy of your fellow human beings. As a child I could not understand what we had done to deserve going there.

My father surveyed the scene from the train and could see prisoners, uniforms and barracks so we immediately thought it was a work camp, and that was reassuring – if we can work, it can’t be such a dreadful place.

We had heard about the stories in Poland of lots of mass shootings of Jews or people being taken into the forest and shot, so it was a relief to see out the window that there was actually a system.

Even though we were victims of discrimination at that stage that’s

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T H E H O LY G R A I L O F : Q U E N T I N TA R A N T I N O HOW HARD WAS IT TO CAST THE PART OF HITLER? My Hitler (Martin Wuttke) had appeared in a Bertolt Brecht play where a dog turns into Hitler. At first he said, “I’d rather be a schnitzel than Hitler again.”

But I talked him into it.

HOW HARD WAS IT TO CAST THE PART OF HITLER?

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Just the genre of a bunch of guys on a mission. I’ve been nursing this one since my video clerk days.

DID YOU GROW UP LOVING WWII MOVIES?

IMDb

8 . 3 / 10 Directors: Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth (uncredited) Writer: Quentin Tarantino Stars: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth

As war rages in Europe, a Nazi-scalping squad of American soldiers, known to their enemy as “The Basterds”, is on a daring mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich. Bursting with “action, hair-trigger suspense and a machine-gun spray of killer dialogue” (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone), Inglourious Basterds is “another Tarantino masterpiece” (Jake Hamilton, CBS-TV)!

I wasn’t a real gigantic WWII buff although I did like The Dirty Dozen. I wasn’t the one watching The History Channel or what I’ve called The Hitler Channel.

DO THE CRITICS LIKE TO ATTACK YOU FOR INSIDE FILM JOKES?

WHAT ABOUT A KILL BILL SEQUEL? I wanted to wait ten years before another Kill Bill. The Bride (Uma Thurman) has been through a lot. She deserves ten years of peace before I make her pick up the sword again.

IS THIS YOUR MASTERPIECE?

“It’s not for a chicken to speak of his own soup.”

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They know I’m a cinema buff so they like to show off their own cinema knowledge. In Kill Bill, for instance, The Bride kills off a representative of nearly every film genre.

In 1942 Disney produced

War Pigs (1970) Black Sabbath Gender: Rock

THE MAQUIS

As a curious fact it is worth mentioning that although initially the name “War Pigs” was destined to be the name of the album to which it belongs, it was changed to Paranoid because the record company of Black Sabbath feared a negative reaction from the partisans of The vietnam war.

The rock band Kiss was not only cataloged as satanic. The two S’s at the end of the logo had a shape that reminded suspiciously of the badge worn by Adolf Hitler’s SS, commanded by Heinrich Himmler.

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The social critique of this song is based on everything that happened in Vietnam, where society began to criticize again this way of acting of some politicians who, influenced by the dark power and wealth, decide to solve the problems by sending innocent people to the battles fields under a patriotic pride more false than an “out of play” in a table football.

a film called Der Fuehrer’s Face (The Face of the Führer) and starring Donald Duck. It is a curious 8-minute animated short film that won the Oscar for best animated short film

Songs that ridiculed the Axis Powers were also popular. These songs include We’ll Knock the Japs Right into the Laps of the Nazis, Yankee Doodle Ain’t Doodlin’ Now, You’re a Sap, Mr. Jap, and Oliver Wallace’s song Der Fuehrer’s Face, popularly recorded by Spike Jones, itself inspiring a 1943 Walt Disney cartoon starring Donald Duck.

A notable trend with songs that targeted the Axis

powers was that for the songs directed towards Europe, the songs focused on Hitler and the Nazis as opposed to the civilians. On the other hand, songs that were directed towards the Pacific showed blatant racism, hate, anger, and revenge following the Pearl Harbor attack.

Second World War. This little short film in comedy and satire shows us an unhappy and apathetic Donald Duck living in mysterious place called “Nutzi Land” (which could be translated as “Country of the Stooges”), which pronounced in English sounds like “Naziland” or “Country of the Nazis”.

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The SS were established in 1925 as a personal guard of the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

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