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Propaganda, the strings used to control

puppets. "Propaganda tries to force a


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.

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