Army Talk, March 24, 1945,
was published by what was then called the US War Department.
WWII was still raging. This eight-page publication was given
to our soldiers to explain what they were fighting for.
“...you are risking your very lives because of a thing called
fascism… We Americans have been fighting fascists for more
than three years.” It details what fascism is, how it takes
hold of a population, and the human misery it has fueled. It
is just one of many examples of how the USA has always been
ANTI-FA - anti-fascist - and to not be a part of that fight is
to shame the founding principles of our country.
Excerpts from the publication:
—
Fascism is government by the few and for the few. The
objective is seizure and control of the economic, political,
social, and culture life of the state… Anyone who is not a
member of their inner gang has to do what he’s told. They
permit no civil liberties, no equality before the law. They
make their own rules and change them when they choose. If
you don’t like it, it’s “T.S.” They maintain themselves in
power by use of force…
The official title of the Nazi party was
deliberately worded for its propaganda value, appealing to
the “nationalists,” “socialists,” “workers,” and all others
who might be favorably influences by these labels. At the
very time that the fascists proclaimed that there party was
the party of the “average citizen” they were in the pay of
certain big industrialists and financiers who wanted to run
the people with an iron hand.
The racists promised everything to everyone… to the
whole nation they promised glory and wealth by conquest.
They asserted it was their right, as a “superior people,” to
rule the world…
It was easy enough for the fascists to
promise all things to all people before they were in power.
Once they were actually in power, they could not, of course,
keep their contradictory promises…. out went equality b
before the law, free elections and free political parties,
independent trade unions and independent schools, freedom of
speech and freedom of the press and, in time, freedom of
religion.
Here is the entire
PDF of this issue of Army Talk.
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