Serving The Third Reich Propaganda Effort
Similar to "Ölkrieg" (Oil War), Zischka explained the background of war and armed conflict as simple struggles for land and raw materials. Zischka presented German technical developments as Coal fluidization or the (Haber process) as being able to guarantee peace. He juxtaposed the greedy capitalism of British or American monopoles against the German orderly working, organic "Volksgemeinschaft" willing to share its technology. Against an Anglo Saxon democratic public, a society dominated by mass media and party politics Zischka put his (very German) ideal of an organic synthesis, a common Gemeinschaft based on a broad mass movement led by technokrats deciding on efficiency criteria.
Ziscka did not only serve widespread then German credentials. Zischka avoided blunt antisemitism and outspoken chauvinism - this allowed him to draw a peaceful and "modern" picture of the Third Reich, serving exactly the latter's prewar propaganda aims. This eased as well Zischka postwar stance as non political, peaceful technocrat. However it has clearly to be stated that Zischka joined the NSDAP 1940, had been member of Deutsche Arbeitsfront, had trained and instructed Legion Condor forces and provided dossiers about the Spanish political situation to Nazi government authorities.
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