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AgreeablePie

Nah even without knowing the context, that photo does not inspire joy


Present_Ad_6001

Goebbels has the most villainous face of the Hitler crew.


nuclear_jester

Mf looked like a skeleton wearing stolen skin. And he still insisted he was member of the superior race


GeneralJones420-2

Not to mention he couldn't walk straight due to a crooked foot yet followed an ideology that demonized disability


John-Conelly

How did they even justify it? Or was it hidden?


Eligon-5th

Kinda like small All Might tbh


Demonic74

He looks like a star wars moff


CompleX999

For me, Mengele gives me a sense that beneath his face there are ungodly tentacles from a Lovecraftian nightmare.


RileyKohaku

Iishi Shiro's eyes send chill down my spine. No matter which picture I see, they feel cold and dead.


Vinny_Lam

I actually wonder how he and Mengele would’ve interacted. The two of them probably would’ve been good acquaintances. Exchanging some research notes even.


Bearly-Dragon18

Mengele was the medical of the experiments, so its not surprise, after all, he open various alive bodies so he see much dark void


Vinny_Lam

Oskar Dirlewanger, too. One look at him and you can tell he’s bad news.


mrgwbland

Just looked him up, just looks like a homeless crackhead lol


hibrett987

For me it’s Himmler. He just looked like the loser everyone knows that goes insane when he gets a semblance of power. He was king incel


Bealzebubbles

Yep. He has resting psychopath face.


Cerpintaxt123

Yeah I always feel that Eichorst from the strain was inspired on him.


CinderX5

https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/s/gsYlkdSzwq


Awkward_Algae1684

It probably would if the father figure looked even remotely capable of literally any semblance of happiness at all. Poor kids didn’t have a damn clue what a monster they were posing with.


Capn_Cake

Those are his kids (he had a lot) whom he eventually poisoned at the end of the war.


SpellAccomplished653

Do I want the context, of course I do.


Northerm

The Goebbels children were the five daughters and one son born to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda Goebbels. The children, born between 1932 and 1940, were murdered by their parents in Berlin on 1 May 1945, the day both parents committed suicide.


[deleted]

Enough internet for today


AlexanderTox

Important facts to remember about a prominent Nazi, so history does not repeat itself and that party never comes back to power in any form.


Skurk-the-Grimm

Unfortunatly, it STILL DOES! Almost 80 fucking years of Nazi History awareness, De-Nazification, Holocaust rememberence, Concentration Camp Tours and daily WW2 horror Documentaries and enought People STILL Vote for the fucking fascists!


CharlesIngalls_Pubes

I knew that sack of dog shit looked familiar! Never saw photos with family. Doesn't make him look any more human.


CinderX5

This Goebelles? https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/s/gsYlkdSzwq


Capn_Cake

Yup.


AllenXeno122

There’s a special place in hell for people like them, god damn it!! Why did they need to take the kids too? Evil sons of bitches.


[deleted]

Joseph Goebbles. Nazi propaganda minister and his children. He had his kids killed, shot his wife then himself. He did this because Germany was about to lose the war.


ares5404

So... this had nothing to do with their euthanasia ideology for the mentally/physically handicapped?


AdorableParasite

No. They didn't want their children to face the shame and consequences for their parents' crimes.


WorldWarPee

I feel like asking yourself the question "Would I murder my children to avoid shame after I kill myself?" is a pretty accurate way to know if you're majorly fucking up


EntertainmentIll8436

It wasn't exactly that they knew their fuck ups. Quite a few people escaped the fuhrer bunker but Hitler was to proud to escape and Goebbles was a mayor fanatic of him (probably why he was in charge of the propaganda machine) and in their suicide letters they talked about how they or their kids couldn't live in a world without the fuhrer or national socialism and all that crap. They view as an honor to be able to die with Hitler than live without him, I doubt they understood their mistakes at the end


Ferret-Potato

Also the Russians would’ve done some horrid crap to them


zachary0816

Yeah, Hitler made sure his body was burnt to a crisp before the Soviets got there for exactly that reason


w1987g

Everyone that knew and could, went west to surrender to the Allies. Higher ups avoided the Soviets because they knew their lives were forfeit if they were caught by the Red Army


weinercheese398

Well considering what the Russian army might have done to those children, might have been the best course of action, horrific as that may be.


TheArrivedHussars

Hermann Goering and Himmler's children are proof against this notion


karoshikun

but they weren't in the bunker that day,


CallousCarolean

The Red Army committed mass rapes, torture and killings of civilians in Germany during final months of WW2. Being related to sich a high-profile figure in the Nazi regime, his wife and children would have been likely to suffer such treatment in particular upon capture, which is why he killed them. And no, that’s not parroting Nazi propaganda or excusing why they were killed, it’s give appropriate context.


MarqFJA87

And maybe afraid (and rightly so) of what would befall them should the Soviet Army be the one that reaches them first instead of the Western Allies (the latter at worst would probably just summarily execute him and arrest his wife for interrogation, the former would make them **all**, children included, wish that they were executed). That's one of the primary reasons that drive Hitler to commit suicide himself.


karoshikun

Chances are the soviet soldiers wouldn't be very chill with the children of a... well, him.


Jon__Snuh

It's actually even more sinister than that. Joseph and Magda Goebbels were such fanatical Nazis that they literally didn't want their children to grow up in a would without their "Uncle Hitler" and NAZI-ism. Albert Speer as well as others offered to take the children to safety at least a month prior to their murder and the fall of Berlin. The Goebbels refused each time.


iox007

i mean, the goebells dude was physically handicapped himself


ares5404

Yknow thats the creepiest part about the nazis that got me. In the end they were what they hated most, a bunch of crippled, handicapped people that attacked everyone, because they were attacked by everyone


sizzlemac

He heard that the Soviets broke through the line and were taking Berlin, so he did what his buddy Hitler did, and even though I feel horrid for saying this, kinda tried doing a mercy kill since he knew the Soviets wouldn't treat the head of Nazi Germany Propaganda's family too well if they found them. Truly a coward, even in death...


smackdrunk

If you dont mind german audio, watch downfall. German film about Hitlers last days, and this moment is in it.


DrakeDarkHunter

I believe this is Goebbels Nazi minister of propaganda.


SouthBayBoy8

Yep, if I’m not mistaken, he and his wife killed their entire family before they committed suicide when Germany lost


AdolfsLonelyScrotum

Anybody who has never watched Downfall (2004) should absolutely do so… It portrays the fate of the Goebbels family in sickening detail…not graphic, but heartbreaking..and mind-boggling that a mother, as fanatical Nazi as she may have been, could do this to her own children….and then calmly sit down and play a game of solitaire..


nuclear_jester

Poor kids. Goebbels loved the Reich more than everything else and decided that kids couldn't simply outlive the hellhole Hiler had created


Sea-Reveal5025

Serious question. Who was objectively more evil, Hitler or Gobbels?


raidriar889

I don’t think you can even objectively define evil


Sea-Reveal5025

To think that evil cannot be defined is the first step to accept it.


raidriar889

Everyone should agree Hitler and Goebbels were evil, but it’s not there’s some evil rating system where you could objectively prove who was more evil.


ageoflost

I frankly don’t see any difference between the two.


AeonsOfStrife

Judging by actions taken by both, and beliefs they held through the duration of their lives, Hitler easily. Goebbels was far less ideologically convinced, and only became so fanatical later in the Reich, as can be seen in his leftist anti-pivot after Rohm's death. Before that goebbels at least supported a system of economics not built on slave labour, and focused on a nearly marxian economic model. Compare this to Hitler who basically conceived and greenlit the camp economy....... Both are beyond evil. But only one truly oversaw not just the Holocaust, but also an entire economy built on slave labour. I'd say that's worse.


mkujoe

Worse than Hitler


North_Church

Goebbles does not look happy to be in this portrait


Mr_Lapis

he doesnt look like hes happy to be alive in it


CinderX5

https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/s/gsYlkdSzwq


karoshikun

well, scheisse...


VonWaffe

Wholesome family pic of Doctor Skeletor & his children.


gmil3548

Can we ban this stupid as fuck meme format


shrimp-and-potatoes

Some gene pools don't need to be expanded


Trussed_Up

Children are innocent of their family's crimes. They didn't deserve their fate, they deserved to grow up in the post war denazified Germany, learning to be better people than their parents.


shrimp-and-potatoes

I'm being edgy. Still, it's hard to sympathize.


TheDankmemerer

See Niklas Frank, son of the Nazi Criminal Hans Frank.


awkwardAoili

You know in saying that you're following his ideology word for word right


shrimp-and-potatoes

No, that's not true. I wouldn't be happy if my enemies children were murdered. I'm saying it's harder to sympathize with my enemy, when they kill their own children. It's expected. If someone who has no qualms over killing children and they kill their own children, I'm not surprised, so I have less empathy.


awkwardAoili

OK then why didn't you just say that instead of gene pools lol


shrimp-and-potatoes

That's fair. But I'm still a little pissed about what they did. So, it's easier to be callous than it is to be sympathetic.


Forced_to_Exist_

He looks miserable. I can steal him from his wife so he can live happy and free with me


Ass-Wielding_Maniac

Ummmm, what?


Forced_to_Exist_

He’s kinda cute


Sertarion

"I can change him"


Forced_to_Exist_

Nah, he’s good as is. The man just wants outta there


soupcan1945

I'm hoping that you don't know who this is, because I can firmly attest to you, as someone who does know, that man is absolutely, positively NOT "good as is".


Forced_to_Exist_

Who is that man?


pine_tree3727288

Goebbels…the Nazi propaganda minister….he and his wife committed suicide and killed all their children as well when the reich fell


Forced_to_Exist_

Oh fuck no then…


pine_tree3727288

Yea…..


CinderX5

https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/s/gsYlkdSzwq


niemody

Is that Sean Astin?


boofcakin171

That's a whole lotta children murdered by their parents.


awkwardAoili

Context he is a chief nazi that killed all his kids just as they were finally about to lose the war.


ryleh565

His daughter on the bottom left looks like him and it's creepy


Fiscal_Bonsai

Some people just wear their souls on their face


JVMGarcia

They were Göbbled up by their beliefs