Reddit gives you the best of the internet in one place. For psychological health, both men had problems, but hitler s only became apparent later in his reign, stalin was this way through and through, we gave stalin a 62 to hitler s 77. I guess he was just better able to cover up his tracks than hitler. Ace reporter clark kent pondered what to write back home and his fingers rested on the typewriter. Available to the public in full for the first time, the hitler book presents a captivating, astonishing, and deeply revealing portrait of hitler, stalin, and the mutual antagonism of these two dictators, who between them wrought devastation on the european continent. Contrary to many other college textbooks, which tend to date rather quickly, this history book seems timeless.
Home from school college beachcombing would sit through the junk that british childrens television had to offer. Of course no one sane or decent likes stalin, bin laden, hitler, or the rest. Bullock offers a monumental social biography of two of the most evil dictators in human history as well as an epic sketch of an era. For strategy, hitler is a master strategist, stalin just reused what the russians did against napoleon for hitler and succeeded, but he only got a 61 to hitler s 87. Germany continued to rely on private industry and agriculture though with heavy state influence in some areas.
Nazi superheroes, villains, other comic book characters. The following has been reposted from the old johnl. A collection of antinazi comic book covers from the 1940s is one of the most relevant books of the year long before america entered world war ii. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Depictions of adolf hitler in american comic books during world war ii. He would quickly take in the news headlines on bbc 1 at 6. On how superman would win the war sequart organization. Read the subreddit wiki for more information about the subreddit. Yet stalin was also worse, because his regime killed far, far more peopletens of millions, it was often claimedin the endless wastes of the gulag. Dont complain about comics you dont like or understand. It was there that henrik eberle and matthias uhl, two german historians, found it. A collection of antinazi comic book covers from the 1940s. Although both joseph stalin and adolf hitler are remembered world over as notorious individuals responsible for the murder of millions of innocent 20th century civilians and soldiers, they are also distinctive historical figures in their own rights and there are enough similarities between them to warrant frequent comparisons. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app.
Following are the estimated death tolls, not counting military casualties. Hitler was evil in the manipulative and paranoid madman kind of way, stalin was more of a brutal hardass. Nobody has ever measured him up to hitler despite all the arguments, though. Almost equally disturbing, the us, canada and britain have never squarely faced the ugly fact that their close wartime ally, stalin, was a far worse mass murderer than enemy adolf hitler. Wheatcroft also says that, unlike hitler, stalins purposive killings fit more closely into the category of execution than murder, given he thought the accused were indeed guilty of crimes against the state and insisted on documentation, whereas hitler simply wanted to kill jews and communists because of who they were, and insisted on no documentation and was indifferent at even a pretence of legality for these actions. Part of the reason that comic books are so woven into american culture is because they were born during a time when the country was pulling itself out of economic crisis and into a global conflict. News and media for adaptations based on comic books are welcome. Stalin killed far more people than hitler lewrockwell. Comic covers or short excerpts a few scanned pages can be posted for discussion. Stalin the eastern front, 19411945 and millions of other books are available for instant access. Superman versus hitler beachcombings bizarre history blog. Nazi superheroes, villains, other comic book characters religion in comics. Hitler was 58 and 12 whereas stalin at maximum height was 55.
It was originally in russian by alexey lipatov, but an anonymous individual translated it the dialogue into english. Introduction bibliography the ussr exercised total control over industry and agriculture with the collectivization of all factories and agricultural land. Titan comics is a bold new publishing initiative from titan publishing, offering readers the best new stories from new and established comics creators, and offering those creators a great deal to bring their stories to a worldwide audience. Hitler used heinrich himmlers ss to murder ernst rohm, leader of the sa brownshirts and several dozen of his cohorts greatly increasing his standing with the military. In the conventional narrative of this war, hitler was defeated by stalin because, like napoleon, he underestimated the size and resources of his enemy. Mao estimated 5080m, mostly from starvation and political pu. Satan in the guise of adolf hitler synopsis satan, in the form of hitler, competes with the unknown solder to claim the soul of slain private george smith. Oh those happy, innocent afternoons a few decades ago.
The dc comics version of hitler, the might of his nazi forces, find themselves opposite an alternate version of themselves from marvel comics. To the best of my knowledge, though, it does seem to be largely accurate. Please share with us some details about this comic strip. This awesome work was found at, a russian comic site. Content with nudity, pornography, or obvious profanity should be tagged as nsfw. Aug 17, 2017 a collection of antinazi comic book covers from the 1940s is one of the most relevant books of the year long before america entered world war ii, comic book artists and authors addressed the nazi.
This subreddit is for everything related to print comics and web comics. Artwork by mac rayboy, daredevil battles hitler, july 1941, lev gleason publications. Gordon there is a great temptation to compare the adolf hitler and joseph stalin. With the millions of people he killed, you would think he would be more organized. The death of stalin is an excellent graphic novel, one dripping with paranoia and betrayal, which sinks its claws into you from its frantic opening all the way to its inevitable closing pages. Or that stalins biggest crime occurred in the 1930s while hitlers were not fully understood until after world war ii. In fact, says historian john mosier, hitler came very close to winning and lost only because of the intervention of the western allies. A short history of antinazi imagery in american comics. Jan 27, 2011 in the second half of the twentieth century, americans were taught to see both nazi germany and the soviet union as the greatest of evils. Hitler believed that britain would never take him on alone, so he decided to swallow his fear and loathing of communism and cozy up to the soviet dictator, thereby. A short history of antinazi imagery in american comics good. Stalin wasnt interested in actually murdering people, he sent people to gulags to use the labor. Twitter trackbacks for blog archive stalin vs hitler comic relettered on says.
In terms of accuracy well, i cant quite say for certain, because this does fall outside my area of expertise. Mao, stalin, and hitler were the 20th centurys 3 great monsters, in order of casualties from their tyranny. While stalin was purging in the tensofthousands, hitler was purging in the dozens. The eastern front, 19411945 reprint by john mosier isbn. Yet stalin was also worse, because his regime killed far, far more peopletens of millions, it was. A collection of antinazi comic book covers from the 1940s is. Pages in category nazis in comic book fiction the following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total. The original russian dialog was in the captions, with english translation in the. A story that appeared in the weekly world news of october 12th, 1993, tells of a comic book that adolf hitler drew in 1909 which featured a lizard man. Cbr senior writer brian cronin has been writing professionally about comic books for over a dozen years now at cbr primarily with his comics.
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