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70th Anniversary of the Defeat of Nazi Germany

70th Anniversary of the Defeat of Nazi Germany. Lessons of History MUST NOT be Forgotten. A Historic Day. 70 years ago, yesterday marks a historic day – the day the Nazi Germany surrendered to the Soviet Union marking the end of the 2 nd World War 

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70th Anniversary of the Defeat of Nazi Germany

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  1. 70th Anniversary of the Defeat of Nazi Germany Lessons of History MUST NOT be Forgotten

  2. A Historic Day • 70 years ago, yesterday marks a historic day – the day the Nazi Germany surrendered to the Soviet Union marking the end of the 2nd World War  • The WW-II was the most terrible war that the humanity has witnessed. Imperialist and fascist forces were responsible for imposing the deadliest military conflict on mankind The total number of dead is estimated to 600 lakh people with Soviet Union and China losing the most number of people (260 &175 lakh) Huge numbers were tortured and killed in concentration camps

  3. The Beginnings of WW-II • 1924 Fascist win elections in Italy with 2/3rd majority • 1931-33 Japan invades Manchuria, Shanghai • 1933 Hitler's rise to power • 1935 Anglo-German treatyfor re-militarisation • 1935-36 anti-comintern treaty between Japan, Germany and Italy • Mar 1938 Austria annexed by Germany • Mar 1939 Czecho-slovakia split and Czech Rep,occupied by Germany • Apr 1939 Dictator Franco established in Spain with the help of fascists • Sep 1939 Germany occupies Poland

  4. Hitler's war campaign to the East For the war Hitler mobilised two-thirds of his combat-ready forces. Hitler's plan was not just to capture Poland. 1,850,000 Wehrmacht Troops 7 panzer and 4 light tank divisions, some 3200 tanks 10,800 cannons and mortars 2 battleships, 9 destroyers 14 submarines and smaller craft 2000 modern aircraft How did Germany emerged as such a powerful military force, when just a decade ago it was defeated in WW-I?

  5. Nazis funded by global corporates Henry Ford being given Nazi medal Hitler with Prescott Bush

  6. Hitler's rise to power in Germany • Hitler joined National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) in 1919 • It was anti-Marxist party that was opposed to the democratic post-war government of the Weimar Republic and the Treaty of Versailles • It advocated extreme nationalism and Pan-Germanism as well as virulent anti-Semitism. • In 1923 Hitler led the Beer Hall Putsch, was arrested and became politically known. • In Jan 1933 Hitler was appointed the chancellor of a coalition government • Feb 1933 - Reichstag fire was used as a pretext to launch attacks on communists • In March 1933 Hitler got dictatorial powers through the Enabling Act • May 1933 Hitler bans Unions

  7. Factors which created conditions for fascism and WW-II • Origins can be found in the conclusion of WW-I, which was a war between imperialist powers for re-division of the world. • US pursued a policy of deliberate and systematic rebuilding of Germany, both economically and militarily, and attempted to destroy the socialist Soviet Union. • Even after rise to power of Hitler, US continued to finance Germany's economic and military reconstruction. US financial and military support for Nazi Germany continued right up to the entrance of the US into the war. • Evidence also proves that British government, faced with choice of i) building up fascism against socialism at the risk of their own destruction, or ii) of making a military alliance with the U.S.S.R., which would strengthen both Britain and the U.S.S.R., chose the former course.

  8. Anglo-Americans collude with Hitler • By September 1939, Germany already had a history of aggression. • It had occupied Austria and taken over Czechoslovakia, emerging as the most powerful single country in Europe. • Soviet Union called upon the two main European non-aggressive powers, Britain and France, to sign collective mutual assistance pact which will not be limited to non-aggression. • At Munich, Chamberlain, on behalf of Britain and Daladier, on behalf France signed a four-power pact with Hitler Germany and fascist Italy, as part of their policy of diverting Hitler eastward, against the Soviet Union.

  9. Nazi propaganda • Nazis repeated lies through their media until they were considered truth much like what US imperialists do today • Goebbels became Propaganda Minister in 1933 after Hitler was appointed chancellor • One of Goebbels' first acts was to organise the burning of books considered to be "un-German" • Under Goebbels' leadership, Propaganda Ministry quickly gained and exerted controlling supervision over the news media, arts, and information in Germany.

  10. Goebbelsian propaganda "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State."  -- Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister

  11. Re-writing history • Media controlled by Anglo-American imperialists behaves very much like Goebbels • Media lying about why Hitler attacked Poland at that time • Suggest that Hitler and Stalin, or Germany and the Soviet Union, were equally to be blamed for the invasion and destruction of Poland • They say that, 1) non-aggression pact signed between Soviet Union and Germany on August 23, 1939, gave Hitler free rein to attack Poland, 2) that there was a "secret protocol" between Molotov and Ribbentrop, which set up a "German-Soviet demarcation line on Polish territory" and that 3) Stalin also "invaded" Poland on September 17, 1939.

  12. US releases Nazi documents • In January 1948 the US State Department published, under the title "Nazi-Soviet Relations 1939-1941," a selection of "Documents from the Archives of the German Foreign Office." • The selection presented only the Nazi versions, and nothing else. • These documents reflected interests and aims of the Hitler regime, which had been explicitly rejected by the Soviet Union and the international community. • Modern day fascist want people to forget the truth.

  13. The role of Soviet Union as seen at that time “The one hundred and sixty-two days of epic battle for the city which has forever honoured your name and the decisive result which all Americans are celebrating today will remain one of the proudest chapters in this war of the peoples united against Nazism and its emulators”. In a letter addressed to Joseph Stalin, dated 5th February, 1943, the then US President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, wrote,

  14. The role of Soviet Union as seen at that time “History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union”. General Douglas MacArthur, US Supreme Allied Commander of Southwest Pacific “The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history”. “We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union”. Frank Knox, US Secretary of the Navy Henry L. Stimson, U.S. Secretary of War

  15. US takes on mantle of Hitler • After WW-II, US incited the fascist forces in Greece and established a fascist regime there, with the help of US and British tanks and generals. • It set up fascist regimes in Turkey and lsewhere. On 3 Dec 1941, 28 of the EAM unarmed demonstrators were shot down in Syntagma Sq. • It supported the Franco fascist regime in Spain and the Salazar fascist regime in Portugal, including its slaughter of the people in Angola and Mozambique. • It reinstated and organised the Nazi forces in what is called West Germany, a state established unilaterally by the US in contravention of the Potsdam Agreement.

  16. US takes on mantle of Hitler • In Iran, the US established the fascist dictatorship of the Shah • In Korea, it established the Syngmon Rhee fascist dictatorship • In Vietnam, it established a similar dictatorship of Bao Dai. • It overthrew the government of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala • ... US economy is based on Military-Industrial-Complex

  17. Democracy and Fascism Indira Gandhi declared national emergency in 1975 and carried on fascistic suppression of toilers andher opponents Photo shows Adolf Hitler addressing the Reichstag on 23 March 1933. Seeking assent to the Enabling Act, Hitler offered the possibility of friendly co-operation, promising not to threaten the Reichstag, the President, the States or the Churches if granted emergency powers. US government is bombing countries that do not follow its dictate

  18. Democracy and Fascism • Regular elections in multi-party parliamentary democracy • Outcome of election is presented as people's verdict • Right of selection or recall of candidates not with the people • Ultimately it is the big corporates and business houses that decide the outcome • As parties in other countries including the Nazi party, the biggest corporate groups finance all major political parties in India too. • Just as Hitler came to power through acts of violence, arson, subterfuge and murders, the same way in India and other democratic countries, parties come to power. • People are marginalised from the political and they are divided through the use of state organised communal violence and state terror.

  19. Modern Fascism • US imperialism has threatened all countries with a different political system to follow its model of multi-party democracy • Launched a “war on terror” on countries and peoples who have opposed its intervention • Launched armed aggression and violates sovereignty of many countries

  20. Military presence of US • 63 countries with US military bases and 156 countries with US military troops in 2001 (source: Global Policy Forum) • More than 2'500'000 military personnel serving worldwide and 737 military bases across each continent (source: Alternet)

  21. US war machine • there are 325,000 US military personnel in foreign countries • US defence expenditure in 2011 was $750 billion, roughly 37% of GDP of India • US sells arms to 59 countries • In 2011, US sold $ 67 billion worth of armaments • US corporations accounts for 60% of all arms sales by 100 top hundred arms producers in 2010 • Lockheed Martin, well known defence equipment manufacturer, topped the list at $35.7 billion

  22. Conclusion • Propaganda by imperialists about the past and present has an aim • Lies are repeated till they are believed to be the truth, to justify imperialist crimes. Reality is totally at variance with their lies • We must have no illusion that fascism will end as long as this anti-people economic and political system of imperialism prevails • Imperialists use the ballot to fool and bullet to rule the people • An attack on one, is an attack on all! • We must unite to fight for our empowerment • This is the only course to combat fascism!

  23. Image Credits • Communist flag over Berlin 1945 - http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-q2L3VvAVmSQ/Us08w7ld5AI/AAAAAAAAIMI/KaXdT1SB9Ko/s1600/Soldiers+raising+the+Soviet+flag+over+the+Reichstag,+Berlin+1945+2.jpg • Nazis funded by global corporates – google images • Reichstag fire - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Reichstagsbrand.jpg • Anglo-Americans collude with Hitler - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R69173,_M%C3%BCnchener_Abkommen,_Staatschefs.jpg • Burning of books under Nazi propaganda - http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/triumph/books-thrown.jpg • Joseph Goebbels - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-17049,_Joseph_Goebbels_spricht.jpg/220px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-17049,_Joseph_Goebbels_spricht.jpg • The role of Soviet Union as seen at that time – wikimedia.org • Further images – google images

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