doctrine on the whole people... Hitler himself wrote these words in his own book Mein Kampf. Nazi propaganda was manipulative, designed to convince the public to believe and trust in the values and ideas of the Nazis. It promoted the purity of the Aryan race, the greatness of Germany, Hitler himself and most memorably served to develop the internal hatred for all Jews.
Nazi propaganda connected the Jewish profile
to negative sources, the devil, skulls, death, war, communism, enemy nations and the murder of German soldiers. They were compared to poison and disease, toxic things that we have no choice, but to remove.
In this first image, working class Germans are
feeding the ever hungry parasitic Jew with teeth that are the Stars of David. This portrays the Jew as a lazy drainer on society, who is only supported by the hard working Germans. Those same Germans who are starving by this stage in the war.
that first began to separate German from
Jew. The Jewish man appears deceitful, he is bordered by German enemies and his obesity plays on the minds of the hungry German population, whilst the young Aryan is the height of Nazi ideology.
Propaganda took many forms, posters, books,
films, radio, rallies, art, newspapers and even architecture. Today, my main focus is on posters and books, the most common forms of visual propaganda.
Even the minds of children were infiltrated
The contrast between the young German man by the Nazi spread of Jewish hate. This and hunched, overweight Jewish male, split here is a childrens book, one of many the two factions. It was this style of teaching anti-Jewish notions. In the Poison propaganda Mushroom, mother and son are gathering mushrooms in the German forest. The boy on guard against poisonous mushrooms finds some poisonous ones. The mother . However they disguise themselves, or explains that there are good mushrooms however friendly they try to be, affirming a and poisonous ones, and, as they go home, thousand times their good intentions to us, says: one must not believe them. Jews they are Look, Franz, human beings in this world and Jews they remain. For our Volk they are are like the mushrooms in the forest. There poison. are good mushrooms and there are good Like the poisonous mushroom! says Franz. people. There are poisonous, bad The Jews were dehumanized in this way, mushrooms and there are bad people. And the children reading these stories were we have to be on our guard against bad conditioned from a young age that people just as we have to be this is a Jew, he is not human, he is The wicked Devil speaks to us, dangerous and needs to be removed. The Devil who, in every country, Is known as evil plague. There were other books, one in particular Would we from the Jew be free, on the identification of the Jew, was Again be gay and happy, similar to the identification of a disease. It Then must youth fight with us ended with this chilling statement: From a To get rid of the Jewish Devil. Jew's face
The Jews portrayed in Nazi posters were
often surrounded by death, the representation of the Jewish people was almost always male, with a hunched back and threatening demeanour, they were shown to be wealthy whilst pure Germans viewing these texts were poor. The Star of David can regularly be found in these posters, this symbol was used as a focal point for the hate. A Jewish styled rat, stating once again that Jews are a spreading disease, similar to the Black Death of the Middle Ages, deadly to all who come into contact with it.
How many diseases have their origin in the
Jewish virus! ... We shall regain our health only be eliminating the Jew. This is an extract from one of Adolf Hitlers speeches called Racial State. The creation of this idea, the idea that the Jews were a virus or disease, something deadly, was also reinforced by posters. Here we have a parasite with Jewish features attached to Earth, suggesting that the Jewish people are a parasite on the world. Nazi propaganda cleverly developed a hate so strong, that people were willing to destroy an entire race. Goebbels, the minister of propaganda and public information, controller of the mass media in Germany, put it simply: The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape.