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I'm guessing non-Aryan dogs or dogs that didn't meet some weird Nazi racial standard got the chop, huh?
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I'm guessing non-Aryan dogs or dogs that didn't meet some weird Nazi racial standard got the chop, huh?
Just get rid of the swastikas and change the man's uniform to a suit, and you have a poster out of the 50s.
I found this to be genuinely unsettling.
The End of the Germany-Japan Part 1: An Iron Eagle With Clipped Wings or the Japanese Invasion of the Reich Proper
As the Germany-Japan War neared its end in early Summer 1947 with Japanese forces entering into Germany proper, having already "liberated" Poland, units of the Wehrmacht (platoon sized or greater) surrendered en masse to the invading Japanese*. By this time, the Gestapo started to act like the political commissars of the defunct Soviet Red Army - forcing German soldiers to continue fighting against the IJA even when they didn’t want to, those who resisted were shot.
Meanwhile the Waffen-SS, more often than not, refused to surrender and fought the East Asian invaders (by now definitely considered by Hitler and the Nazi leadership to be Untermensch) like demons - this in turn caused the Japanese to massacre SS personnel wherever they were found. But once Berlin had fallen in late Spring 1948, after the intense Battle of Berlin, even the SS started to see the concept of fighting on to be pointless and hopeless - the last SS units surrendering at Berghof, Hitler’s home in the Bavarian Alps** (which the Japanese ransacked completely afterwards). However, Nazi resistance groups would continue to fight on well into the 1950s.
Soldiers of German Wehrmacht surrender to Japanese forces in December 1947.
German prisoners of war are marched out of Koenigsberg in East Prussia to a Japanese POW camp.
Japanese soldiers secure a German bunker along the Oder.
A column of the Imperial Japanese Army's Central European Area Army, led by General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, advance on the road from Munich to Berlin in early Spring 1948.
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* = By the time of the Japanese invasion of the German homeland, the Greater German Reich and the Greater Japanese Empire had been at war for a year and since the beginning of the war Berlin has had far more defeats than successes against their former ally. This unending chain of defeats has led to morale in the Wehrmacht reaching an all time low. Things went from bad to worse when the Reich's allies (Italy, Hungary, Vichy France, etc.) turned on Berlin during the winter of 1946.
** = They were then marched outside by their Japanese captors and mowed down by machine gun fire or bayoneted. Some were even buried alive up to their noses.
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Animated Controversy: Legend of Camelot
Athuria Pendragon - warrior queen of the Britons and main character in the Japanese animated movie, Legend of Camelot.
Released in 1954 by Red Moon Studios, Legend of Camelot or LOC was a big hit in Japan proper (the homelands, Takasago-koku, and the Korean Peninsula) and introduced the Japanese people to the Arthurian Legend (albeit getting several things wrong). The main difference was that certain characters were the opposite gender of their literary counterparts (i.e. the main character, Arthuria), there was also heavily suggestive/sexualised themes* and violence (the former of which drew the ire of the establishment) - however, despite all that it was a hit.
Athuria Pendragon - warrior queen of the Britons and main character in the Japanese animated movie, Legend of Camelot.
High Chancllor of the Realm and founder/leader of the British Union of Fascists, Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley.
His Majesty King Edward VIII of House Windsor.
In Great Britain** however, the animated film was met with much anger and hostility by the Britons - High Chancellor Mosley and King Edward VIII both said in private that it was a historical travesty and an affront to British culture. In the streets of London and other major cities, protests and riots against the film erupted with clashes between police and protesters lasting for ten days. Eventually, the British government would ban the film from theatres.
Rioters during the 1954 "Camelot Riots".
Riot Police during the Camelot Riots.
A woman, who was part of the Camelot Riots, is arrested by police.
* = Including a scene where Queen Arthuria is in an outfit that is quite revealing.
** = Officially known as the Imperial British Republic or IBR.
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I'm assuming that is an equivalent to Axis Powers Hetalia, but with Fascist Britain.
Yes. The Brits are not too happy about this animated film from the Japanese.
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Japanese Settlers in the PSA's East and America's Holodomor
A Japanese settlement in Montana-shū circa 1955.
While the core lands of the Pacific States of America* are administered by the Nixon regime, the outer lands** are administered by the Imperial Japanese Army with PSA governors only really acting as advisers to the highest Japanese military officer(s). Additionally, certain states in the outer lands received more settlers than the core lands (such as Aidaho and Montana-shū).
A Japanese settlement in Montana-shū circa 1955.
Japanese settlers in Montana-shū circa 1954.
White farmers had their land confiscated by the Imperial Army and distributed to incoming settlers. The former owners were then forced onto less arable land by the army. After weeks of this, the White farmers decided to fight back by refusing to deliver their harvest to the Japanese or the PSA government. The IJA responded with a frontal assault on the rural whites, the Kempeitai taking a page from the long defunct soviet NKVD oddly enough. The military police confiscated all food stuff and livestock from the farmers and when they (the farmers) resisted, the Kempeitai either arrested them and/or executed them along with their families.
Idaho was the hardest hit, they had resisted the redistribution of farmland more stubbornly then anyone else - going so far as to beat up and/or kill Japanese soldiers/Kempeitai agents who came to collect the harvest quota. Like in early 1930s Ukraine, Idaho suffered a catastrophic man-made famine with hundreds of thousands of Whites (largely from countryside) dying of starvation and disease between 1956 and 1958 as the IJA looted unconfiscated farmland (in some cases even burning it) and withheld vital supplies of vegetables, meats, and grains from them (often times handing it to Japanese settlers) as well medical supplies. Many more would flee up north into Canada or eastward into the rump USA.
An American family in Idaho, victims of the "Great Idaho Famine".
A little boy feeds his younger brother before feeding himself.
A family of starving Americans lay in front their burned down farm (burnt by the IJA).
Douglas “Dougie” Matthew Riley (left) age 7 at a Shin Kyōto*** soup kitchen with his 5 year old sister Sofia Alexandra (centre) and his 3 year old brother Nathan Jake (right).
They are survivors of the Great Idaho Famine or the Aidaho-shū jiken (Idaho Incident) - their parents died in the famine.
==========================* = California, Washington, Arizona, and Oregon (even after the Portland Uprising of 1956).
** = Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Colorado.*** = New Kyoto, formerly Sacramento.
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Vichy France during the Germany-Japan War
A piece of Vichy French propaganda in 1946.
Despite being a client State of the Greater German Reich, the French State (commonly known as Vichy France) used the Germany-Japan War for its own benefit. Such as starting to make moves on German-held territory in the north of France and seizing Alsace-Lorraine - with Vichy France reclaiming the north during the winter of 1946 with minimal resistance from the Germans. The Germans had left token forces behind to garrison northern France with most units of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in Western Europe getting pulled out and transferred eastward to try and halt the East Asian juggernaut as the Imperial Japanese Army conducted its own version of Blitzkrieg across European Russia and Eastern Europe (drawing ever closer to the German homeland).
A piece of Vichy French propaganda in 1946.
All the while Pétain’s government tirelessly churned out nationalistic and anti-German propaganda that “revealed” that the Vichy government had been covertly supplying the French Resistance all along while playing the role of a puppet - which it did....when the Japanese took Moscow from the Germans in early 1946. There being a secret round of negotiations between Vichy France and the various French Resistance groups about Vichy supplying the resistance with anything it required but only if they promised to only attack German occupation forces from the time of Moscow’s fall to the Japanese onward, which the resistance agreed to after weeks of furious debate.
Vichy French soldiers enter a town in formerly German-held northern France in December 1946.
Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain of the French State greets Parisians outside the Élysée Palace.
General Charles De Gaulle returns to Paris to a hero’s welcome.
In the meantime, Pétain had decided to do something unexpected...he invited General Charles De Gaulle of Free France to return to the Métropole with other high-ranking Free French with the promise of amnesty and a seat in the government of a unified France. De Gaulle, realising both the fact that he wouldn’t get a better deal elsewhere and the futility fighting Pétain’s government*, agreed to Pétain’s invitation and was given a hero’s welcome.
Marshal Pétain and Prime Minister Laval talk about meeting De Gaulle.
Two members of the Milice française march a column of captured German soldiers out to the execution fields in the Parisian countryside.
A French artillery crew fires upon German forces near Alsace-Lorraine.
A French Char 2C heavy/super heavy tank in a village in Alsace-Lorraine.
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* = Especially as more and more nations recognised Pétain’s government as the sole legitimate French government.
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Zombie SWAT officers patrol San Francisco after successfully containing a human outbreak to the north side of the city.
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Japan’s Post-War Science Fiction Craze/SF-mania (1950s)
Though Japanese mythology had elements that can be best described as proto-science fiction (the best known example is “The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter”), science fiction in the standard sense did not begin until the Meiji Restoration and the importation of Western ideas.
The first science fiction of any influence to be translated into Japanese were the novels of Jules Verne. The translation of Around the World in Eighty Days was published in 1878-1880, followed by his other works with immense popularity. The word 科学小説 (kagaku shōsetsu) was coined as a translation of "scientific novel" as early as 1886.
Author Oshikawa Shunrō, real name Oshikawa Masaari, is generally considered as the ancestor of Japanese science fiction. His debut work Kaitei Gunkan (Undersea warship), published in 1900, described submarines and predicted a coming Russo-Japanese war.
During the period between the world wars, Japanese science fiction was more influenced by American science fiction. A popular writer of the era was Jūza Unno, sometimes called "the father of Japanese science fiction." The literary standards of this era, and the previous, tended to be low. Prior to World War II, the Japanese rarely if ever saw science fiction as worthwhile literature. Instead, it was considered a form of trivial literature for children.
A character considered to be the first full-fledged superhero is the Japanese Kamishibai character Ōgon Bat, who debuted in 1930, eight years before Superman. Another similar Japanese Kamishibai superhero was Prince of Gamma (ガンマ王子) , who debuted in the early 1930s, also years before Superman.
Cover for the Mighty Atom manga (1954).
The era of modern Japanese science fiction, called SF, began with the influence of paperbacks that Japanese soldiers brought back to the Home Islands from the Pacific States of America after Japan’s victory in WWII. The first SF magazine publisher in Japan, Kagaku no surirā 科学のスリラー (Kagaku no surirā/Science thriller) aka KnS was created in 1954 but nearly went under after only one issue of an original SF magazine of theirs, Seiun, did poorly. But a young mangaka by the name of Tezuka Osamu and a little manga called Tetsuwan Atomu or Mighty Atom (known in the West as Astro Boy) saved Kagaku no surirā.
Tezuka Osamu, mangaka of the highly popular Mighty Atom manga.
Mighty Atom was first serialised in KnS in 1954 and proved immensely popular, this popularity paved the way for fans of Mighty Atom to read other works published by the KnS. One such work was the highly successful and militaristic yet thrilling, intellectually stimulating, and suggestive* manga called 宇宙帝国 (Uchū teikoku) or Cosmic Empire which was geared towards boys and girls of adolescent age (though mostly to boys). Cosmic Enpire was written by Machiko Hasegawa, the first woman to become a mangaka.
Hasegawa Machiko, mangaka of the cult classic Cosmic Empire manga.
A Cosmic Empire poster - featuring the two main characters, Fujioka Hanzo and Itou Chiyo.
Brigadier General Lord Lawrence Clarke, an alien from Cosmic Empire. He hails from the Celestial Imperium, comes from an alien race called the Celestialites, and is the main antagonist of the manga and show.
He views the Terrans/humans as nothing more than savage monkeys that are in desperate need of the Celestialites’ civilising touch (mostly through cultural genocide and slavery or as the Imperium calls it serfdom) and he feels that if they will not accept the Imperium’s civilising mission with open arms and resist then they are destined to be exterminated like vermin. Clarke’s racism, and that of the Celestial Imperium, is a mixture of the white man’s burden-style of racism prevalent throughout the Age of Imperialism and the genocidal racism of the Third Reich.
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* = Suggestive for its very attractive female characters and the outfits some of them wear, Cosmic Empire’s females are also well developed strong characters (whereas most other SF manga have them as either one-dimensional support characters or as damsels in distress).
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The Republic of Greater India and the Hindu Republic of Bharat
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi better known as Mahatma Gandhi or Gandhi ji.
Born and raised in a Hindu merchant caste family in coastal Gujarat, India, and trained in law at the Inner Temple, London, Gandhi first employed nonviolent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, in the resident Indian community's struggle for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for various social causes and for achieving Swaraj or self-rule.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi better known as Mahatma Gandhi or Gandhi ji.
Gandhi famously led Indians in challenging the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in calling for the British to Quit India in 1942. He was imprisoned for many years, upon many occasions, in both South Africa and India. He lived modestly in a self-sufficient residential community and wore the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl, woven with yarn hand-spun on a charkha. He ate simple vegetarian food, and also undertook long fasts as a means of both self-purification and political protest.
Gandhi's vision of an independent India based on religious pluralism, however, was challenged in the early 1940s by a new Muslim nationalism which was demanding a separate Muslim homeland carved out of India. Gandhi was also challenged by the Azad Hind Fauj (Indian National Army/INA) and the fascist ultranationalist All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) of Subas Chandra Bose.
Troops of the Japanese-backed Indian National Army invade the British Raj from their bases in Burma.
British troops surrender to Japanese soldiers after the fall of Calcutta.
In April 1947, the Empire of Japan launched its long awaited invasion of the Subcontinent with Bose’s INA in tow and, after months of intensive fighting, captured the capital New Delhi where they installed a coalition puppet government dominated by the Indian National Congress (led by Mohandas K. Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru) and the All India Forward Bloc (led by Subhas Chandra Bose). The three men proclaimed the British Raj to be over and proclaimed the Republic of Greater India and, with a ton of Japanese assistance, the newly formed Greater Indian Army (the INA combined with defecting units of the Indian Colonial Army) captured more territory from the British. After the dissolution of the Republic of Greater India and establishment of the Hindu Republic of Bharat, the Greater Indian Army would be renamed to the Bharati Hindu Republican Army.
Subhas Chandra Bose, Netaji of Bharat.
The Netaji reviewing INA troops.
Almost immediately afterward, the divisions between Bose’s AIFB and the INC became all too apparent to Tokyo. The Japanese decided to act and helped Bose stage a palace coup against his INC coalition partners, Nehru disappeared and never seen or heard from again but Gandhi was only placed under house arrest due to his importance to the now completed Indian Independence Movement and India as a whole. Bose then declared himself Netaji or honoured leader of Greater India and renamed the country “the Hindu Republic of Bharat". He has started to severely crack down on Muslim and Sikh separatism based in northwest India, Punjab, and Bengal while declaring Hinduism to be the state religion and persecuting Muslim and Sikh Indians. Additionally, the Bose regime has used the Muslim and Sikh separatist movements to justify a burgeoning campaign of ethnic cleansing against the two religious groups.
Now solely holding the reigns of power, Bose declared Bharat to be a single-party state and subsequently outlawed the Indian National Congress along with all other political parties. Meanwhile, Gandhi remains under house arrest and has begun to fast in protest of Bose’s betrayal of the Independence Movement and his persecution of Muslims and Sikhs as well the ethnic cleansing campaigns.
Flag of the short lived Republic of Greater India.
Flag of the Hindu Republic of Bharat.
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Famous Russian pianist, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin plays for Tsar Michael II at the Winter Palace on May 12, 2018.
His Imperial Highness, Tsar Michael II of House Romanov or as he is known by his official title: By the Grace of God, We, Michael, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir, Novgorod; Tsar of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan, Tsar of Poland, Tsar of Siberia, Khagan of Mongolia, Tsar of Chersonese Taurian, Tsar of Georgia; Lord of Pskov and Grand Prince of Smolensk, Lithuania, Volhynia, Podolia, Finland; Prince of Estland, Livland, Courland, Semigalia, Samogitia, Belostok, Karelia, Tver, Yugorsky land, Perm, Vyatka, Bolgar and others; Lord and Grand Prince of Nizhny Nogorod, Chernigov, Ryazan, Polotsk, Rostov, Yaroslavl, Belozersk, Udorsky land, Obdorsk, Kondia, Vitebsk, Mstislav, and all of the northern countries, Master; and Lord of Iberia, Kartli, and Kabardia lands and Armenian provinces; hereditary Sovereign and ruler of the Circassian and Mountainous Princes and of others; Lord of Turkestan; Heir of Norway; Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Stormarn, Dithmarschen, and Oldenburg, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth.
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