Spring Conquers Berlin 1940 No Language 1080p WEB-DL x264

Year: 1940
Country: Germany
Director: Will Fischer

Language : No Language





The same drive towards unified control is behind Fascist foreign policy. Aggressive, violent and militaristic imperialism is necessarily common to all Fascist movements. Mussolini declared that ‘imperialism is the eternal and immutable law of life itself’ – which ingeniously brings in the growth of the amoeba to excuse the appropriation of Fiume.

The plain facts of the situation as left by the war are now clear. The countries among the belligerents that have not yet gone Fascist are those who are satisfied with the booty they had got then and previously, and are more interested in developing and exploiting their territories than in extending them. The countries which have gone Fascist are those which lost territory then or which were very dissatisfied with their part in the share-out.

Forced back on the idea of war as the only way to alter that position, the Fascist countries militarise the entire nation. All national efforts are subordinated to preparation for war. Speaking at the close of the Italian Army manoeuvres on 24 August 1934, Mussolini said:

One must therefore be prepared not for a war of tomorrow, but for a war of today. We are becoming, and will become, always more prepared because we wish to be a military nation, and, not being fearful of words, militarist. This means that the entire life of the nation, political, economic and spiritual, must be directed towards those objects which constitute our military necessities.

In the same speech he claimed as a great achievement of Fascism that it had caused a radical change in the mentality of the people towards war: ‘If tomorrow the people were called upon they would reply as one man.’

In Germany, of course, imperialism and militarism are not inventions of the Fascist state. Prussia had risen to be a great power by its ruthless sacrifice of all considerations to military things. The impression had been stamped deep into the German consciousness. After the Revolution of 1918 the Reichswehr set itself to keep alive the military spirit, and to prepare a war of revenge. The special contribution of the Fascists was to unify the nation behind the policy of expansion, and to crush relentlessly and effectively all opposition to it. Nazi spokesmen declare that it is their highest aim to unite the German nation into one big fist. If Fascist countries can really produce this unity for war, then their creed becomes a formidable force which may compel great changes in the social organisation of the countries opposed to them.


The modern form of absolute state with its mass basis realises the power of propaganda. In Fascist Germany and Italy the great propaganda machinery of state and party is occupied in making the nation, more particularly the youth, interested in the idea of war. Pacifism is a crime.

Internationalism and any creed tending to produce the international outlook are the objects of crusades of suppression – hence not only the campaign against the Jews, but the bitterness towards the much more powerful Roman Catholic Church, the suppression of Freemasonry and even of the Rotarians. The international solidarity of the workers is denounced as an invention of the Jews.

No one escapes the all-pervasive propaganda. Cigarette cards point the moral. The illustrated papers supply the interest. Military bands, frequent parades of marching troops, keep up the excitement. The new science of pictorial statistics is developed to a high point to show how Germany’s security is menaced and how strongly armed its neighbours. The effect is to create a desire for arms. Fighting in war is praised as the supreme virtue. The inevitability, necessity and greatness of war is regarded as the last word of wisdom.

Wisely, like all the best propagandists, they begin with the children. Hitler, in the German edition of Mein Kampf, says (p 715):

Then, in fact, beginning with the primer of the child, until the last newspaper, each theatre and each cinema, each news kiosk and each free hoarding must be put into the service of this one big mission, until the anxious prayer of the Philistine of today, ‘God make us free’, is changed in the brain of even the smallest boy into the prayer: ‘Almighty God, bless one day our arms. Be as just as you always were. Now judge if we are worthy of liberty. God bless our fight.’

It was in Thuringia that Herr Frick, in 1930, introduced prayers of hatred into the schools. On 9 May, as Reichsminister, he issued a new rule for German schools:

The military idea must find ample treatment in school instruction. The German people must learn once more to see in military service the highest patriotic duty and source of honour. The germ of the military idea must be planted in the youth now growing up.

Edgar Mowrer, in his brilliant book, Germany Puts the Clock Back, gives in his casual way a description of how the Nazi ideals had penetrated the middle-class schools previous to their gaining power. Now, with their rivals crushed, with the teachers anxious to excel in the only means by which promotion or even security can be obtained, the propaganda is carried through the whole educational system, and to every class in society.

In many universities, Departments of Military Science have been opened by the Nazi government in defiance of Paragraph 177 of the Treaty of Versailles. Political ‘education’ and military science take the place of science. The popular lectures deal with poison gas, the new methods of chemical warfare, military geography, electric transmission of military news, and all the exciting incidentals of a modern scientific war. German youth, which loves to break into song on any possible occasion, is supplied by the Nazi song-writers with songs of contempt for death and the dangers of the battlefield.

Psychologically more subtle is the attempt to condition the German people as a whole to war, to accustom them to the idea by homoeopathic doses. After all, even the German who is under 30 has had personal experience either of actual warfare, or the horrors that war can bring in its train – blockade, famine, inflation, social revolution. The German army suffered terribly in the trenches, and those experiences also are not forgotten. It needs very careful propaganda, helped of course as it has been by the Allies’ attitude in the first 12 years after the war, to overcome the natural desire for ‘No More War’ which has in England and France produced so deep and real a pacifism in the population. (Why Fascism?, Edward Conze and Ellen Wilkinson, 1935)

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