Nazi PropagandaMay 20, 2015

What is Propaganda?

What about this?

Your Task:

1) Briefly review the propaganda posters and images

2) Select one image that resonates with you. You will be analyzing this piece.

Your task:

3) Describe: What do you see? Focus on the concrete, without interpreting. What’s occurring, what stands out? Critical viewing.

4) Analyze: What choices did the artist make? Focus on color, shape, perspective -- how do they communicate a message? Symbols? What emotions is the piece trying to evoke?

5) Interpret: What larger story is the artists trying to tell or hoping to communicate? Who is the intended audience? How might other audiences interpret it?

6) Discuss your process and your propaganda piece with your neighbor.

“Führer, we will follow you.” (1934)

“A wonderful task: Reich Labor Service Women’s Leader: A job for today!”

The Eternal Jew (book published in 1937)

“Adolf Hitler’s youth attends community schools.” (1936 or 1937)

“Youth Serves the Führer. All 10-year-olds into the Hitler Youth.” Membership in the Hitler Youth had become mandatory in 1936. (1940)

“The Jew: The inciter of war, the prolonger of war.” (Late 1943, early 1944)

“You are the front!” (1940-1941)

“Shame on you, chatterer! The enemy is listening. Silence is your duty.” (1943)

“Mothers! Fight for your children!” (Late in war; date unknown)

“Hitler is building. Help him. Buy German goods.” (mid-1930s)

This poster links the German Labor Front (the DAF) of WWII era to World War I. (1933)

Portrays expulsion of Jewish teachers and students from German schools. From 1933, the numbers of Jewish students in public schools was limited, supposedly due to overcrowding.