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NAZI PROPAGANDA
AIMS TODAY
Define PROPAGANDA( again!)
 Study examples of Nazi Propaganda
 Categorise propaganda into ‘types’
 Explore the effectiveness of Nazi
Propaganda
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Propaganda
Write down this definition
Propaganda is a set of messages aimed at
influencing the opinions or behaviors of large
numbers of people. Propaganda often presents
facts selectively to encourage a particular view,
or gives loaded messages in order to produce
an emotional rather than rational response to
the information presented.
1936 Berlin Olympics
http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=XXIe5GbLSUs
TASK
Give reasons why Hitler may not have awarded Jesse Owens his gold
medals.
A Nazi Rally
http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=jIF6hOy5LNg
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Study the following Propaganda posters
after each one write down whether it
relates to :
Censorship
 Avti-Semitism
 Youth and Education
 Support for the war
 The Economy
 Hitler’s Foreign Policy
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This poster
probably comes
from the mid1930's. The
caption: "Hitler is
building. Help
him. Buy German
goods."
This poster promoted
education. The caption:
"Adolf Hitler's youth
attends community
schools.“ Probably the
mid-1930's. Courtesy
of Dr. Robert D. Brooks.
This 1938 poster was
issued shortly after the
Anschluss with Austria.
The caption: "One People,
One Reich, One Führer."
The text of this 1940
poster reads: "Youth
Serves the Führer. All
10-year-olds into the
Hitler Youth."
Membership in the
Hitler Youth had
become mandatory in
1936.
This 1940
poster
advertises the
worst of the
Nazi antiSemitic films,
"The Eternal
Jew."
This poster advertises a
county rally of the Nazi
Party from 1941 (a
miniature version of the
Nuremberg rally). A
woman plows the field
while her husband fights
on the front.
This looks to be a late-war
recruiting poster for the
SS, a time at which the
Nazis were recruiting
younger and younger
soldiers. The caption
doesn't translate directly,
but means: "Enlist now!" A
literal translation would be:
"Especially you!"
This poster from fall
1943 also encourages
silence. The caption:
"Shame on you,
chatterer! The enemy is
listening. Silence is your
duty." This was probably
in colour, but the source I
found it in was black and
white.
Before World War II began,
Germans were allowed to listen
to foreign radio broadcasts. This
was banned once the war
began, and by the end of the
war people were executed for
listing to enemy radio stations.
In this poster, a Marxist looking
chap broadcasts from London,
Moscow, and other enemy
states, while a German listens
in the darkness, trying to
conceal his crime.
Homework
Read the information on each of Hitler’s
SS commanders
 Find out more about them and complete
a profile for the following :
 HIMMLER
 GOEBBELS
 Goring
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