It may be argued however, that recruitment posters really weren't needed, that men would join up anyway, from a variety of reasons from boredom, hope that conditions in the army were better than their current situation et cetera. Unfortunately, there is no date on this photograph so we cannot presume that it was taken before conscription was introduced and if it was taken after then it proves nothing to us. ... The censorship of letters sent by the soldiers could be used by the government to control the reception of the war on a generally more literate population than ever before, as we...

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If we let them have their own country again, would they just then try to start another war? ... Then the Great Depression came along and the countries that the Germans owed money to came to collect the money that was owed. ... They were under the control of one dictator and then went under the control of another. They had Hitler during the war and then in the post war Eastern Germany had Stalin in charge. Some people would argue that Stalin was worse than Hitler, but that is a completely different story. ...

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