Nazi Propaganda

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Nazi Propaganda
Aviel Menter
Jean Kim
Introduction
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Nazi Propaganda Committee was headed by Dr.
Joseph Goebbels
Nazis used propaganda to teach hatred of the Jews,
and reverence for Hitler
Everybody was the target
audience for Nazi Propaganda:
children, business owners,
normal adults etc.
Posters like this one would show Jews as ugly, rude,
and a danger to society.
Lying about treatment
of the Jews
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The Nazis published a movie in the Theresienstadt
Ghetto about how well the Jews were supposedly
being treated.
After the filming of the movie, most of the Jews were
deported to the Auschwitz death camp, and killed in
gas chambers.
Many Jews in death camps were forced to write
postcards home, telling their family members that
they were being treated well, when in fact they were
being fed terribly and killed by the thousands.
Nazi Propaganda and
Children
By the year 1937, 97% of all German school
teachers were part of the Nazi Teacher’s
Union.
 The Nazis published schoolbooks to teach
small children hatred of the Jews and love for
Hitler.
 Books like The Poisonous Mushroom would
teach children that Jews were subhuman,
greedy animals.
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Propaganda In The
Media
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Hitler published his propaganda in books, art, theatre,
movies, and tried to insert it into every aspect of a
German citizen’s life.
In 1926, Hitler published a book called Mein Kamph,
which taught anti-Semetism, and preached all of
Hitler’s ideas about any non-Aryan.
Movies such as The Eternal Jew depicted Jews as
greedy, disgusting animals, tainting German culture.
Other movies were created to teach love of Hitler ,
such as The Triumph of Will.
Conclusion
Nazis would use any instrument they could to
incorporate hatred of Jews and love for Hitler
into every aspect of a German citzen’s life.
 Joseph Goebbels, head of the Nazi
Propaganda Committee, would portray Jews
as a stain on German society.
 Nazi propaganda drove millions of people to
stand by and watch the destruction of over
half of the European Jewish population.
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