Transcript Enemy Propaganda

Enemy Propaganda
Adolf Hitler
Mussolini
Tokyo Rose
Japanese and Nazi Propaganda
By: Mary DeRiso, Brittany Eustace, Laura DuMont,
Rory Kotter, and Gary Hammell
Adolf Hitler
• Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, at Braunauam-Inn, Austria, his father, had risen from a poor
peasant background to become an Austrian
customs official and was able to provide his son
with a secondary education. Poor school marks
prevented him from obtaining the customary
graduation certificate. In 1913, Hitler moved to
Munich in the hope both of evading Austrian
military service and of finding a better life in the
Germany he had admired so much.
• Hitler was the leader of the German Nazi
party. From 1933 until his death, he was
the dictator of Germany. Hitler’s plan was
to become noticed by Germany and most
of Europe. He wanted the Germans and
Europeans to trust him, so that he could
take advantage of them, and conquer
them. His rule resulted in the destruction
of the German nation-state and its society,
in the ruin of much of Europe’s traditional
structure, and in the extermination of
about 6 million Jews.
• In April 1940, German troops conquered
Norway, Denmark; in May and June they swept
through the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.
On June 22, a triumphant Hitler forced France to
sign an armistice at Compiegne, the site of the
armistice of 1918. Hitler was now at the peek of
his career. He had proved himself a superior
military commander, and he began to build his
New Order in Europe. As Hitler reached the end
of the war, Goebbels, Bormann, and Eva Braun,
whom he had married, remained with him. Hitler
and Eva committed suicide on April 30, 1945.
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Mussolini
• Benito Mussolini, was the prime minister of
Italy from 1922 till 1943. In 1925 Mussolini,
ended democracy in Italy by dismissing the
Italian Parliament. Mussolini had also begun
the fascist party. The party’s main beliefs were
in Fascism, which called for a single-party
state, total compliance, patriotic nationalism,
and aggressive militarism. On October 25,
1936, Mussolini and Hitler announced a RomeBerlin alliance.
• The Italians attempted to surrender to the
Allies in 1943, but German forces invaded.
The German forces finally gave in on May
2, 1945. For the Allies, the Italian
Campaign involved some of the hardest
warfare in World War II. It cost the United
States some 114,000 casualties. By the
end of the war, the Italian economy was
devastated and over 300,000 Italian men
and boys were killed.
• On April 28th 1945, a Communist partisan
drove Mussolini to a nearby villa. The
partisan ordered him out of the car and
leveled a machine gun at them. The gun
jammed. Then Mussolini, holding back the
lapels of his jacket, said, "Shoot me in the
chest." The partisan fired twice, and the
Duce was dead.
• Tokyo Rose was born in Los Angeles
California in 1916. She lived in the US
through her school carrier and went to the
University of California and graduated in
1940. In 1941 she decided to go to Japan
with two reasons; one was to visit her sick
aunt and to
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• Tokyo Rose would broadcast a radio
program that would get to the U.S.
soldiers. On this radio program she would
tell the soldiers that they were losing and
that they were doing nothing and saying
they were worthless.
Japanese war Posters
This poster
shows a Japanese
soldier
trampling over
British and
American flags.
The poster was
issued by the army
ministry,
and the writing
reads, “Fire and
never quit!”
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Just like the United States depicted the Japanese to be ape-like in
their propaganda, the Japanese depicted the Americans similarly. In
the poster on the left, an American is shown as a demonic figure
with skulls around his neck. In the poster on the right President
Roosevelt is depicted as a monster with a horn sticking out of his
head. He is also sitting on a grieving Statue of Liberty. This is
meant to show the United State’s weakness.
President Roosevelt is shown
with the hands and feet of a
monster with a single horn
protruding from his
head. He sits atop the
"Grieving Statue of Liberty,"
the title of the picture. She
grieves because in the
President's one hand, he
waives the banner of
democracy while in the other
he grips the stick of
dictatorship. It represents
how despicable the United
States is, and promotes the
US’s weakness.
Nazi Newspapers
There were also many posters that
encouraged people to help out with
This poster
shows a
the war efforts.
man
This poster
shows a woman
holding a piece
of clothing,
which
encourages
people to help
with a clothing
drive. The
words read, “Get
rid of old clothes
and shoes!”
handing
ammunitio
n to a
German
soldier. It
encourages
people to
make
weapons
for the
army. The
text reads,
“Build
weapons
for the
front.”
Bibliography
www.teacheroz.com
 www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/rose/
rose.htm
 www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/posters
1.htm
 www.calvin.edu/adademic/cas/gpa/poster
s2.htm
 www.msu.edu/~navarro6/srop.html
 www.pbs.org
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