الحب بطعم الخبز..

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كانت الأحلام فوق نعل الجندي..!  
كانت تتمني ان تكون عبدة حقيقية لا حب ولا مال ولاوطن..

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تدفق دموعي يسقط من الينابيع الخاص

في المنفي الى الأبد واسمحوا لي ان نحزن

حيث الطيور ليلة سوداء حزينة تغني لها العار

اسمحوا لي ان اعيش هناك ياسا..

أسفل الأضواء دون جدوى تالق كنت لا اكثر!

لا الليالي مظلمة مايكفي لتلك

هذا اليأس في نشجب ثرواتهم المفقودة

من العار الكشف عنها..

يجوز ابدا ان يعفى مشاكل بدلي

والدموع والتنهدات والىهات أيامي بالضجر

حرمت من كل افراحي..

من اعلى مستدقة من الرضى

يتم عرض ثروتي..

والخوف والحزن والالم لصحارى بلدي

وآمالي حيق الامل قد ذهب

كنت في الظلام التي يسكن فيها الظلام..

Flow my teares fall from your springs,
Exilde for ever: Let me morne
Where nights black bird hir sad infamy sings,
There let me live forlorne.

Downe vaine lights shine you no more,
No nights are dark enough for those
That in dispaire their last fortunes deplore,
Light doth but shame disclose.

Never may my woes be relieved,
Since pittie is fled,
And teares, and sighes, and grones
My wearie days of all joyes have deprived.

From the highest spire of contentment,
My fortune is throwne,
And feare, and griefe, and paine
For my deserts, are my hopes since hope is gone.

Hark you shadowes that in darnesse dwell,
Learn to contemne light,
Happy that in hell
Feele not the worlds despite.

Ottomar Anton

SS Propaganda

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A very large number of posters were also produced to attract foreign recruits to the Waffen-SS. Many unique posters designed specifically for these countries, and quite a number of German posters were adapted for this purpose as well, usually by localising the language.

Quite often poster designs were made into postcards, recruiting booklets and other printed items.

Gino Boccasile - a gifted artist from Italy, who was an Untersturmfuhrer in the Waffen-SS. He was imprisoned for a short period after the war, but still went on to have a successful career as a graphic artist. He died in 1952.

Hans Schweitzer - a German artist who signed his posters and other artwork with the name "Mjölnir" which is the name of Thor's Hammer. He was a favorite artist of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. He was another artist who went on to success, after the war, in graphic arts.

Harald Damsleth - he did a number of outstanding posters for Waffen-SS recruiting in Norway. He was imprisoned for several years after being tried for treason at the end of the war, but he too had a successful graphics art career. He died in 1971.

SS-Haupsturmfuhrer Professor Ottomar Anton (1895-1976)

Ottomar Anton was one of the most prolific Waffen-SS poster designers during the Third Reich (1895-1976). Many of his Waffen-SS posters were done in a patriotic style with Waffen-SS men, or potential recruits, gazing off into the distance.

Before the war he designed literally hundreds of travel posters for the large German cruise ship companies "Hamburg-Amerika" Line (HAPAG) the "Deutsche Afrika" Line, and some for the British "Cunard" and "White Star" Lines as well. Many were a "dreamy" type of design, done in the Art Deco style, with a scene depicting the country or area advertised with the cruise ship majestically sailing in the distance (see the samples below). He also did some posters for a few beer and cigarette companies such as the famous Eygyptian cigarette company "Kyriazi".

Post War Work

After the war he did poster work for various companies including the "4711 Cologne" company and the Adler typewriter company and taught as a Professor at the Bremen School of Art. He was a master of the "Art Deco" style and designed some of the most eye catching posters of the period. Politics aside, Anton was truly a master of his trade.

Burial Place

Anton is buried at the Ohlsdorf garden cemetery in Hamburg. This cemetery appears to be mostly for the citizens of some accomplishment (polticians, movie and theater stars, doctors, professors etc

Third Reich propaganda posters were some of the most visually appealing to come out during the period. . Mostly they were printed on very thin paper and made to be used for a few weeks, then torn down or pasted over with the next new batch. Many poster designs might no longer exist due to their fragile construction