
”Should forty million people find their white blood corpuscles called forth to fight against the deadly germs of typhus, their need would be sufficiently obvious for the politician to bring the resources of the State to their assistance - the more hurriedly in that to the perverted typhus germ a politician makes as appetizing a meal as anybody else. But should those forty million people be fighting a battle no less desperate against all the nameless armies of decadence and ruin that threaten the spirit, the politician can be trusted to observe nothing and therefore not to be diverted from his major business in life, which is service to his own career. Lack of appreciation of this fact, or else a subconscious acquiescence in its implications on the part of the parasitical overlords, has led many a civilization to disaster and many a nation to its grave.”

George the bush-baby, or galago, wearing an ARP (Air Raid Precautions) tin helmet as he sits in an enamel mug.(Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). 1941

A mountain trooper hoists the German national flag from a tall building, somewhere in the Balkans, following the defeat of Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia capitulated on 17 April 1941, 11 days after the invasion commenced. German losses were significantly light, which totaled 151 killed, 392 wounded, and 14 missing.

Leonid Amalrik & Olga Khodataeva, Kino-Circus, ”Act 3: Adolf the Juggler on Powder Kegs.” Anti-fascist war propaganda cartoon made in the Soviet Union.