The German War The German War The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945 is a history of the "thoughts and actions" of German citizens during the Second World War by historian Nicholas Stargardt. Stargardt presents evidence that Germans were aware of the genocide and atrocities being committed by German policy, through word of mouth. Stargardt argues that as the war went on, German media increasingly, "hinted at what people already knew, fostering a sense of collusive semi-secrecy." This 'spiral of silence' (according to Stargardt) produced a sense of quasi-complicity among Germans, even those who did not directly participate in atrocities. He argues
War comics variety of titles beginning in the 1950s, such as "Battlefield Action", "Fightin' Army", and "Fightin' Marines". Quality also began publishing "G.I. Combat" during this era. Marvel Comics also produced war titles, notably "Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos". In contrast to the typical glamorizing approach of most war titles, the EC Comics titles "Frontline Combat" and "Two-Fisted Tales" (produced in the early 1950s) depicted the horrors of war realistically and in great detail, exposing what editor Harvey Kurtzman saw as the truth about war without idealizing it. (The mid-1960s black-and-white comics magazine "Blazing Combat", produced by Warren Publishing, was similarly