NAZI PROPAGANDA

AIMS TODAY

Define PROPAGANDA( again!)

Study examples of Nazi Propaganda

Categorise propaganda into ‘types’

Explore the effectiveness of Nazi

Propaganda

Propaganda

Write down this definition

Propaganda is a set of messages aimed at

influencing the opinions or behaviors of large

numbers of people. Propaganda often presents

facts selectively to encourage a particular view,

or gives loaded messages in order to produce

an emotional rather than rational response to

the information presented.

1936 Berlin Olympics

A Nazi Rally

http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=jIF6hOy5LNg

http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=XXIe5GbLSUs

TASK

Give reasons why Hitler may not have awarded Jesse Owens his gold

medals.

Study the following Propaganda posters

after each one write down whether it

relates to :

Censorship

Avti-Semitism

Youth and Education

Support for the war

The Economy

Hitler’s Foreign Policy

This poster

probably comes

from the mid-

1930's. The

caption: "Hitler is

building. Help

him. Buy German

goods."

This poster promoted

education. The caption:

"Adolf Hitler's youth

attends community

schools.“ Probably the

mid-1930's. Courtesy

of Dr. Robert D. Brooks.

This 1938 poster was

issued shortly after the

Anschluss with Austria.

The caption: "One People,

One Reich, One Führer."

The text of this 1940

poster reads: "Youth

Serves the Führer. All

10-year-olds into the

Hitler Youth."

Membership in the

Hitler Youth had

become mandatory in

1936.

This 1940

poster

advertises the

worst of the

Nazi anti-

Semitic films,

"The Eternal

Jew."

This poster advertises a

county rally of the Nazi

Party from 1941 (a

miniature version of the

Nuremberg rally). A

woman plows the field

while her husband fights

on the front.

This looks to be a late-war

recruiting poster for the

SS, a time at which the

Nazis were recruiting

younger and younger

soldiers. The caption

doesn't translate directly,

but means: "Enlist now!" A

literal translation would be:

"Especially you!"

This poster from fall

1943 also encourages

silence. The caption:

"Shame on you,

chatterer! The enemy is

listening. Silence is your

duty." This was probably

in colour, but the source I

found it in was black and

white.

Before World War II began,

Germans were allowed to listen

to foreign radio broadcasts. This

was banned once the war

began, and by the end of the

war people were executed for

listing to enemy radio stations.

In this poster, a Marxist looking

chap broadcasts from London,

Moscow, and other enemy

states, while a German listens

in the darkness, trying to

conceal his crime.

Homework

Read the information on each of Hitler’s

SS commanders

Find out more about them and complete

a profile for the following :

HIMMLER

GOEBBELS

Goring