Transcript Who voted Nazi? - Keystage History

Who voted Nazi?
What the election posters suggest
and why we need to be careful when
using them.
Why posters are helpful
At elections there was a
secret ballot, so
we can never be absolutely sure
how people voted
We have hundreds of autobiographies explaining
why some voted Nazi, but are these TYPICAL and
RELIABLE?
We need to compare this evidence
with numerous autobiographies,
speeches, leaflets etc.
But these posters do broadly indicate
who the Nazis were trying to attract
and how, (if we can read them
accurately).
Can you find 6 reasons for voting
Nazi that these posters were trying
to promote?
Marks
3 marks if you can work it out without a written
clue
2 if you can work it out with a written clue
1 if you can partly work it out, without a written
clue.
First team to get 15 marks wins!
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Enlarged view
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Work and
bread
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Clue:
what
does the
number
refer to?
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Slide 1
“Free Saxony (a part of Northern Germany) from
Marxist trash!”
Slide 2
• “Two million dead. Did they die in vain?
Never! Front soldiers! Adolf Hitler is showing
you the way!”
Slide 3
“Freedom and Bread.”
Slide 4
Notice the sword through the Jewish star of
David. The red words coming from the snake
are: usury, Versailles, unemployment, war guilt
lie, Marxism, Bolshevism, lies and betrayal,
inflation, Locarno, Dawes Pact, Young Plan,
corruption, Barmat, Kutistker, Sklarek [the last
three Jews involved in major financial scandals],
prostitution, terror, civil war.
Slide 5
• Work and bread, (regarded by the Nazis as
one of their most successful posters)
Slide 6
The text: “5,600,000 unemployed demand work!
The need of the unemployed is the need of the
whole people! On Friday evening, 15 January
1932, at 8 p.m., there will be sixteen mass
meetings for the unemployed.”
Slide 7
• “Enough! Vote Hitler!”
Slide 8
• Workers of the mind and hand! Vote for the
front soldier Adolf Hitler!”
Slide 9
• Break the Dawes plan. Vote for the Nazis.
Slide 10
Our last hope
Our last
hope
Credits
I am very grateful to Calvin University for
allowing me permission to reproduce small
images from their authoritative collection of
German propaganda posters which can be found
on their site. It is well worth a visit and contains
many more examples which you might like to
use.