Hard Times, Hard Duties, Hard Hearts!
A German propaganda poster from 1943, a year which represented a significant turning point in the war. Germany had just suffered it’s most catastrophic defeat yet with the destruction of its 6th army in Stalingrad, and the Western Allies had just successfully landed troops in mainland Europe for the first time. With the deteriorating war situation also came societal transformations within Nazi Germany, which saw the intensification of repressive measures by the state and an acceleration to its genocidal machinations. The nation’s economy was also mobilized to full war footing for the first time, limiting the availability of luxury goods and seeing the complete cessation of services non-essential to the war effort.
This poster is a testament to the grim determination with which the German populace faced its dire fate during the last years of the war. It also aims to draw upon the socialistic aspects of National Socialism, depicting both laborers and soldiers, men and women alike, toiling together for the greater good of the nation and to realize the German Manifest Destiny.
War material is life-saving for one’s own people, and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here, enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence. – Gustav Krupp
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A German propaganda poster from 1943, a year which represented a significant turning point in the war. Germany had just suffered it’s most catastrophic defeat yet with the destruction of its 6th army in Stalingrad, and the Western Allies had just successfully landed troops in mainland Europe for the first time. With the deteriorating war situation also came societal transformations within Nazi Germany, which saw the intensification of repressive measures by the state and an acceleration to its genocidal machinations. The nation’s economy was also mobilized to full war footing for the first time, limiting the availability of luxury goods and seeing the complete cessation of services non-essential to the war effort.
This poster is a testament to the grim determination with which the German populace faced its dire fate during the last years of the war. It also aims to draw upon the socialistic aspects of National Socialism, depicting both laborers and soldiers, men and women alike, toiling together for the greater good of the nation and to realize the German Manifest Destiny.
War material is life-saving for one’s own people, and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here, enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence. – Gustav Krupp
