CONTEST ENTRY: Germany! Beautiful, large, large Germany.

[write-light.livejournal.com]

Ah, Germany, your bypaths* of beauty beckon so alliteratively!

I harken to the throbbing song of the waves playing on your North Sea beaches.

I tour Karlsbad, Germany; Wiesbaden, Germany; Dresden, Germany; Berlin, Germany, Vienna, Germany  

Vienna, Germany?



Oh, riiiight.

German Railroads Information Office, 1939.


*A private path; an obscure way; indirect means. "God known, my son, By what bypaths, and indirect crooked ways, I met this crown. Shak.

Comments

[phantomessj.livejournal.com]

Your commentary made me LOL. Poor Germany; lost all that extra space only a few short years later.

[bib-specialist.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. Come to Germany, 1939. Of course, there may be slight delays while your train is held up by troop trains filled with soldiers heading east for the Polish border, but still....

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

and other trains headed to places that don't exist, but if they did, they are actually quite pleasant and nothing like you have heard.

[kyoko-godaikun.livejournal.com]

It looks like something out of the Nazi's Signal magazine. All horrible propaganda of course. But they did have an English edition-made for pow's and the occupied channel islands.

[dubhain.livejournal.com]

Vienna was indeed part of the German Riech in 1939. It had been annexed on 12 March, 1938. This was known as the Anschluss.

The ad does have one thing right. The country itself was beautiful, before the war. The NSDAP was going all-out to promote that image and capitalize on it.

Unfortunately, the German government, ruled by the NSDAP, was not lovely at all. It was, in fact, a horrorshow, but the public hadn't caught on to that, yet.

[write-light.livejournal.com]

Yes, I put the Anschluß wiki page in the link below the picture.

[dubhain.livejournal.com]

Ah. You're right. Somehow I missed it. Apologies.

[christhawk.livejournal.com]

Absolutely loving the troops marching as part of picturesque Germany. Too poor a photo to tell if they're just Wehrmacht (regular army) or actually SS troops. Now, if I were timetravelling to 1939, I would love to see the troops in person, before they get too dangerous! ;)

Edit: Oh, yeah. YES!

[hannahsarah.livejournal.com]

As a Jew, I think I'll pass on the German railway tour, thankyouverymuch.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Seconded.

[vp19.livejournal.com]

I believe this ad was promoting a summer vacation to Germany in 1939, so if you left the country before Sept. 1 (and arrived in the Fatherland as an Aryan or reasonably close to it), you presumably would be safe. (Provided you weren't headed for Poland.)