We studied a lot of different examples of Nazi propaganda in class today. I am posting a few examples on here, but not all. Which of the anti-Semitic examples of Nazi propaganda did you feel was the most "effective" for the Nazi idealogy? Which ones struck you the most?
Lit Terms 2
5 years ago
8 comments:
i felt as thought the ones that stood out the most where the ones that portrayed "every day life" but in the picture something was off. like the picture of the boys in the classroom at first seeming normal until you look at the black board and the boys are really learning how to separate Jews from themselves.
Ashley Patterson
I agree with Ashley and think that the one that portrays the children in a normal classroom is the most effective. It puts Nazi porpaganda is such a twisted light for me personally. The picture just shows a normal class with healthy strong children which looks fine until you see the board. The class is sitting attentivly, with the teachers approval, discussing how to pick out a Jew. I think it is important to see images like this to show how real that propaganda was and how effective it could have been on others.
Looking at all this propaganda makes me sick. To see how they used children mostly to get the point across. The one with the guy giving the kids candy gives me chill bumps. The artist makes the man completely ugly and that’s how they want everyone to view Jews. It's horrible!
The first picture shown really stands out to me. The Jew is portrayed, as seen commonly, with a large nose and scraggly appearance. The fact that he has Germany tucked under his arm with a whip in his hand conveys that Jews are trying to take over Germany. This would certainly put fear into Germans that anyone would try to take over Germany, much less Jewish people as depicted in this piece of propaganda.
-kate
The propoganda picture that stood out to me most was the one that had mushrooms on the front, and was some kind of childrens book. I think that they way that they portrayed the jews is aweful relating them to fungus. I also think that the anti semitists who published this book were smart in their thinking, knowing that children would read this book and get prejudice thoughts in their head.
Trevor Best
The one that struck me the most was the picture of a regular school day.
It's a picture that gets your attention because the environment looks perfect; healthy children, clean classroom, children sitting attentively (like Hannah said). Then you look at the chalk board and think differently.
Although it may not be a picture from a concentration camp, it's still disturbing to look at for me. It's disturbing because of the fact that children were actually taught these ridiculous things, and many did believe in what they were being taught.
It's sick to look at the picture, yet we all need to be reminded about what was happening back then.
-Snezhanna
Elliott, you make an interesting point. Once you become a parent, everything changes. If there is anything guaranteed to make me cry, it's some sappy parent/child movie. If there is a commercial I am going to pay extra attention to, it's a commercial that features moms and children. By the same token, if you mention anything that might pose a danger to children, especially my own, I am going to immediately pay attention. By creating propaganda that would get the attention of parents by insinuating that their children were in danger, it was a fool-proof method for that demographic. I hadn't thought of that before, but it makes perfect sense. Good job, Elliott.
The one that stands out the most is the one that Ashley chose. Hitler knew what he was doing. He new the future was the youth, no youth no future. He taught them all at a young age to were they could eat and breathe nazi. Not all were phsyco nazi, some actually new that what was going on was wrong. But Hitler knew what he was doing.
-Isaac S. Haruo
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