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Nazi Propaganda

Propaganda is a set of messages made to influence the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus lying by omission) to create a certain meaning, or tries to get people to think emotionally rather than logically. Nazi Propaganda.

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Nazi Propaganda

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  1. Propaganda is a set of messages made to influence the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus lying by omission) to create a certain meaning, or tries to get people to think emotionally rather than logically.

  2. Nazi Propaganda

  3. Two Purposes • To create a positive image of Hitler and the Nazi Party • To create a negative view of those considered to be enemies, particularly Jews

  4. Hitler’s Propaganda Methods • Present simple themes in a repetitive manner • Appeal to emotion rather than intellect • Have broad appeal to the masses • Focus mainly on one enemy - Claim that this enemy is at the root of all problems

  5. Propaganda: Pervasive in Nazi Germany • Images – Posters, Book and Newspaper Illustrations • Spoken Word – Nazi Speeches and Radio broadcasts; Songs and slogans • Printed Word – “Der Sturmer” ; Academic publications; School curricula • Dramatic - cinema (i.e. Triumph of the Will; The Eternal Jew; Jud Suss); Party Rallies

  6. Goals of Pro-Nazi Propaganda • To portray Hitler and The Nazi Party as the saviors of Germany • To connect the Nazis to a positive, idealistic vision of Germany’s future • To portray the Nazis as confident, decisive, and overwhelmingly powerful

  7. Hitler as the Heroic Leader

  8. Hitler Brings Unity

  9. “The Reich will never be destroyed if you are united and loyal.”

  10. Appeals to Traditional Values Motherhood “German Women Think of Your Children Vote Hitler”

  11. Youthful Idealism

  12. “Youth serves the Fuhrer”

  13. “Workers of the mind and hand –Vote for the front soldier Hitler!”

  14. Power and Pageantry

  15. Whom do you feel is the target audience of this propaganda? Explain your answer.

  16. Goals of Anti-Jewish Propaganda • To connect Jews to every problem facing Germany and every other group seen as opponents • To reinforce traditional negative stereotypes about Jews • To create a climate of contempt toward Jews • To dehumanize the image of Jews (to facilitate discrimination, segregation, exile, and murder)

  17. Jews as Aliens “Only a racial comrade can be a citizen. Only a person of German blood, irrespective of religious denomination, can be a racial comrade. No Jew, therefore, can be a racial comrade.” Point 4 - Nazi Party Program, 1920

  18. The Jew as Eugenic Threat “With satanic joy in his face, the black-haired Jewish youth lurks in wait for the unsuspecting girl whom he defiles with his blood, thus stealing her from her people. With every means he tries to destroy the racial foundations of the people he has set out to subjugate.” Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf

  19. The bottom slogan reads: “Women and girls, the Jews are your undoing!”

  20. The Jew as CommunistFrom the cover of the book The Eternal Jew

  21. The Jew as Capitalist Exploiter “The God of the Jews is Money.  And to gain money, he will commit the greatest crimes. He will not rest until he can sit on the largest sack of money, until he becomes the King of Money.”

  22. The Jew as Warmonger “If international finance Jewry inside and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the bolshevization of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!” Adolf Hitler - January 30, 1939

  23. Nazi propaganda poster blaming Jews for the war

  24. All Enemies are Jews! Note the similarity between the portrayal of Churchill (who was not Jewish) and the antisemitic stereotype.

  25. Jews depicted as controlling the Allies

  26. Jews plotting to rule the world The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (Front cover of a French edition)

  27. The “Blood Libel”

  28. The Jew as demonic From an advertising poster for a movie

  29. The Poison MushroomAChildren's Book

  30. “Jews Get Out!”: A Children’s Game

  31. What does this propaganda look like? • How does this propaganda differ from the Pro-Nazi propaganda? • Do you feel that the Anti-Jewish propaganda has the same target audience? Explain your answer.

  32. Dehumanizing Words “We had the moral right, and the duty toward our nation to kill this people who wished to kill us. … We do not, because we were exterminating a bacillus, wish to be infected by that bacillus in the end and die.” Heinrich Himmler - October 4, 1943

  33. Dehumanizing Words “Was there any form of filth or profligacy, particularly in cultural life, without at least one Jew in it? If you cut even cautiously into such an abscess, you found, like a maggot in a rotting body, often dazzled by the sudden light - a little Jew” Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf

  34. Dehumanizing Images: Jews portrayed as vermin

  35. Results of Propaganda • “True Believers” are empowered by propaganda to engage in behavior that would otherwise be forbidden. • Propaganda shifts the “frame of reference” regarding the subject. Formerly extreme ideas enter legitimate discussion. • The “piling on” effect mutes opposition.

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