IGCSE HISTORY

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IGCSE HISTORY

• NAZI PROPAGANDA

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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.
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1936 Berlin Olympics
http//tw.youtube.com/watch?vXXIe5GbLSUs
TASK Give reasons why Hitler may not have
awarded Jesse Owens his gold medals.

• A Nazi Rally
• http//tw.youtube.com/watch?vjIF6hOy5LNg

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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
• Hitlers Foreign Policy

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This poster probably comes from the mid-1930's.
The caption "Hitler is building. Help him. Buy
German goods."
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This poster promoted education. The caption
"Adolf Hitler's youth attends community schools.
Probably the mid-1930's. Courtesy of Dr. Robert
D. Brooks.
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This 1938 poster was issued shortly after the
Anschluss with Austria. The caption "One People,
One Reich, One Führer."
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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.
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This 1940 poster advertises the worst of the Nazi
anti-Semitic films, "The Eternal Jew."
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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.
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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!"
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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.
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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.
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Homework

• Read the information on each of Hitlers SS
  commanders
• Find out more about them and complete a profile
  for the following
• HIMMLER
• GOEBBELS
• Goring