Transcript Propaganda

PROPAGANDA
WHAT IS
PROPAGANDA?
(n.) information, especially of a biased or misleading nature,
used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or
point of view.
What other definitions or examples can you think of?
ELEMENTS OF NAZI
PROPAGANDA
• Appeals to the “National
Community” (Volksgemeinschaft)
• A union of all “Aryan” Germans
• Political strife and dissension
have no place in society
• Welfare of the nation, not the
individual
• Nazi propaganda played a crucial
role in selling the myth to
Germans who longed for unity,
national pride and greatness
ELEMENTS OF NAZI
PROPAGANDA
• Cult of leadership
• Idolized Hitler as one who
brought stability, created jobs,
and restored German greatness
• Germans were expected to pay
public allegiance to the “Führer,”
such as giving the Nazi salute
and greeting others on the street
with “Heil Hitler!”
• Faith in Hitler strengthened the
bonds of national unity; noncompliance signaled dissension
“Long Live Germany!”
ELEMENTS OF NAZI
PROPAGANDA
• Defining the enemy—exclusion from society
• Publicly identified groups for exclusion, incited hatred or cultivated
indifference, and justified their outcast status
• The “outsiders”:
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Jews
Sinti and Roma
homosexuals
political dissidents
Germans viewed as
genetically inferior
Left: “Bolshevism without a Mask”
Right: “Behind the Enemy
Powers: The Jew”
ELEMENTS OF NAZI
PROPAGANDA
• Deceiving the public
• Served to win over public to regime’s goals and ideology
Left: Polish poster: “Jews are lice; they cause typhus.”
Right: Poster of a Communist stabbing a German
soldier in the back.
ELEMENTS OF
PROPAGANDA
• Indoctrinating youth
• Targeted classrooms and
extracurricular activities
• Emphasized that the Party
was a movement of youth:
dynamic, resilient,
forward-looking, hopeful
LET’S ANALYZE TOGETHER.
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Use your handout on persuasive techniques and logical
fallacies to aid your analysis.
“Germany’s Victory, Europe’s
Freedom,” 1940s
“He is to blame for the war!”
“The German Student: Fight for
Leader and Nation”
“A New People,” 1938
“A chronically ill person costs the
state 5.50 Reichmarks daily.”
“A healthy family can live for one
day on 5.50 Reichmarks!”
From a 1938 children’s
book, The Poisonous
Mushroom: “Just as it is
often hard to tell a
toadstool from an edible
mushroom, so too it is
often very hard to
recognize the Jew as a
swindler and criminal.”
“The Jew: Inciter of War,
Prolonger of War,” 1943 or 1944
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO
TALK ABOUT
PROPAGANDA?