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Nazi Propaganda
Nazi Propaganda was used to:
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Instill in Germans a fear and hatred of Jews
Instill in people in Nazi occupied Europe a fear
and hatred of Jews
Gain the people’s support of the Nazi’s social
policies
Glorify Germany
Glorify the Nazis
Nazi Anti-Semitic Propaganda
Posters
Anti-Semitic propaganda
poster distributed by the
pro-German Lithuanian
Activist Front. Lithuanian
citizens—Jews and nonJews alike— suffered
under the Soviet
occupation of Lithuania
during 1940-41, but
propaganda such as this
equated Jews with
Stalinist repression. This
and similar posters were
created in Germany and
given to pro-Nazi groups
in the Baltic region for
local distribution.
This is a copy of the
original poster with
English translation.
This 1938 AntiSemitic cartoon
depicts an octopus
with a Star of David
over its head. It is
using its tentacles to
encompass the globe
with the intention of
world domination.
A spider,
with a Star
of David on
its back,
lures nonJews
(victims)
into its
web.
Nazi Anti-Semitic Propaganda
Films
The Eternal Jew is
an Anti-Semitic Nazi
propaganda film
released in 1940. The
central theme of the
movie is how the
racial personality
traits of the Jew
characterize the Jew
as a wandering
cultural parasite. In
the film, the Jews are
constantly referred to
as rats.
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Jud Suss
German
adaptation of this
film in 1940 is
considered to be
one of the most
hateful depiction
of Jews on film.
 Plot: A Jewish
businessman cons
the Duke of
Wurttemburg
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By showering the corrupt duke with treasure and
promises of even greater riches.
As the Jew's schemes grow more elaborate and his
actions more brazen, the dukedom nearly erupts into
civil war.
Persuaded by the Jew, the Duke all but scuttles the
constitution and alienates the assembly by lifting the
local ban on Jews in Stuttgart.
In a final outrage, the Jew rapes a wholesome
German girl and tortures her father and fiancee.
When the Duke succumbs to a sudden heart attack,
the assembly of Elders try the Jew and sentence him
to death for having "carnal knowledge of a Christian
woman."
The 1940 film achieved Nazi objectives and was
a great success in Germany and abroad.
 Anti-Jewish violence was reported after its
projection in Marseilles, for example. The
impact of this movie was such that its director,
Veit Harlan, received the 1943 Universum Film
Archiv award (the UFA was the major
commercial German film studio in the early part
of the 20th century)
 The film’s director was put on trial after the
war, but he defended himself arguing the Nazis
were in charge of his work
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Nazi Propaganda Films were
used to glorify the German
Nation.
“Triumph of the
Will”
Considered to
be the best
propaganda film
ever made.
Its sole purpose
was to glorify
Germany.
The Nazis used
propaganda to gain
public approval of social
policies – such as its
euthanasia program.
This poster reads:
"You are Sharing
the Load!
A Genetically Ill
Individual Costs
Approximately
50,000
Reichsmarks
by the Age of
Sixty."
Nazi German
propaganda poster
with a German
soldier defeating the
red dragon of
communism.
Roughly translated
the poster states,
"Germany's
Victory is
Europe's
Freedom."
This poster states,
“Work and Food”
It was used for the
November 1932
Reichstag
elections.
The Nazis viewed
this as one of their
most effective
posters.
This visual
from the
mid-1930s
shows
Germany in
white, with
the
100,000man army
permitted by
the Treaty
of Versailles
surrounded
by heavily
armed
neighbors.
This poster dates
to sometime after
1936. Some argue
this poster
compares Hitler to
Jesus. Just as a
dove descended on
Christ when he was
baptized by John
the Baptist, what
looks to be an
eagle hovers
against the light of
heaven over an
idealized Hitler.
The text:
Long Live Germany!
The text translates: "All
Germany hears the
Führer on the People's
Receiver." The Nazis,
eager to encourage
radio listenership,
developed an
inexpensive radio
receiver to make it
possible for as many as
possible to hear Nazi
propaganda.
The film
“Triumph of the
Will”
was written,
directed, and
produced by
Leni Riefenstahl
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Each September, a pilgrimage was held in
the German city of Nuremberg.
Followers gathered from all over Germany to
participate in torchlight marches and solemn
ceremonies honoring fallen Nazis.
There were big military-style parades and
most important of all…
A chance to see the Fuhrer in person
Many Germans returned home from a rally
with renewed dedication to the Nazi cause
and increased devotion to Hitler.
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Triumph of the Will was filmed by Leni
Riefenstahl at the 1934 rally at Nuremberg.
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Over one million Germans participated in the
1934 rally, and from then on the turnout only
grew larger.
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It is the 1935 Nuremburg rally that is most
remembered - as it was during this rally that
the special announcements concerning the
status of German Jews were announced…the
Nuremberg Laws.
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The film’s most enduring and dangerous illusion
is that Nazi Germany was a super-organized
state.
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In reality, Nazi Germany was only well organized
to the degree that it was a murderous police
state.
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The Nazi government was a tangled mess of
inefficient agencies and overlapping
bureaucracies led by ruthless men who
competed for power and would do anything to
get in the favor of a superior Nazi authority and,
especially, Hitler.
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Leni Riefenstahl combined the strengths of
documentary and propaganda into a single,
overwhelmingly powerful visual force.
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The film is a “deification” of Hitler.
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Considered to be the best propaganda film ever
made, it is studied today in film schools as the
supreme example of the documentary form.
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Leni Riefenstahl’s Nazi documentaries were
hailed as groundbreaking film-making because,
among other things, she pioneered techniques
involving:
– Cranes
– Tracking rails
– Many cameras working at the same time
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Leni Riefenstahl’s masterpiece earned her a
Cultural Achievement Award from Joseph
Goebbels’ Propaganda Minstiry.
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The film also won a gold medal for its artistry
at the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris.
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For one of her films, Tiefland, (the Lowlands,
which she did not finish until after the war in
1954) she used slave labor from concentration
camps
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At the end of the war, Riefenstahl was arrested
and spent four years in a French concentration
camp, but was not found guilty of war crimes.
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After the war, because of her association with
the Nazi Party, each time she attempted to
make a film she could not get funding and was
met with criticisms and protests.
Leni Riefenstahl died in 2003 at
the age of 103, maintaining to
the end that she was politically
naïve and not aware of Nazi war
crimes.
Here is a scene from her film,
Triumph of the Will