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~ German Propaganda ~
World War II
(syn: especially disapproving)
information, ideas, opinions or images, often only giving
one part of an argument, which are broadcast, published or
in some other way spread with the intention of influencing
people's opinions
propaganda
noun
marginal (syn: SMALL) / adjective
very small in amount or effect
marginalize / verb
Something or someone that
is marginalized is treated
as unimportant.
marginalization / noun
the ACT of making something or
someone unimportant.
Enough!
Vote Hitler!
(1932)
The Nazis viewed this as
one of their best posters. It is
by Mjölnir.
The caption translates:
"National Socialism: The
Organized Will of the
Nation.“
Goebbels claimed that
Mjölnir perfected the art of
drawing the Nazi Storm
Trooper.
How would this
poster persuade a
citizen to contribute
money to the war
effort?
Master propagandist of the Nazi
regime and dictator of its cultural
life for twelve years, Joseph
Goebbels was born into a strict
Catholic, working-class family from
Rheydt, in the Rhineland, on 29
October 1897.
He was educated at a Roman
Catholic school and went on to
study history and literature at the
University of Heidelberg under
Professor Friedrich Gundolf, a
Jewish literary historian renowned
as a Goethe scholar and a close
disciple of the poet Stefan George.
Goebbels’ Propaganda
Goebbels
He achieved the Nazi 'co-ordination' of cultural life very quickly,astutely combining propaganda, bribery and terrorism, "cleansing"the arts in the name of the volkisch ideal, subjecting editors andjournalists to State control, eliminating all Jews and politicalopponents from positions of influence.
On 10 May 1933 he staged the great ritual "burning of the books" inBerlin, where the works of Jewish, Marxist and other "subversive"authors were publicly burned in huge bonfires.
He declared not long before his death: "We shall go down in historyas the greatest statesmen of all time, or ....as the greatest criminals."
A Propaganda Primer
Reichspropagandaleiter Dr. Goebbels:"Propaganda has no principles of its own. It has only one
goal, and in politics that goal is always to conquer themasses. Any means to that end is good. And, anymeans that does not serve that end is bad.“
Gauleiter August Eigruber:The propagandist never asks "Why?" He needs no
justification, but rather only this granite faith: "I believe inthe Führer, I believe in the Reich, and I believe invictory!“
The source: Franz J. Huber, ed., Propagandisten-Fibel. Herausgegeben vomGaupropagandaamt Oberdonau der NSDAP. (Wels: Leitner & Co, 1942).
Under the Treaty of
Versailles, the Saar was
placed under French
administration, pending a
referendum to be held in
1935.
This poster encouraged
Germans to be aware of the
upcoming referendum.
The text translates: "1935 —
Saar Referendum! We in the
Saar are loyal — We stand
for honor and the Fatherland.
Are you thinking of us?"
This poster probably dates
to the mid-1930's. It
promotes the Nazi
charitable organization
(the NSV).
The text: "Support the
assistance program for
mothers and children."
This poster was also
issued shortly after the
Anschluß with Austria.
The caption: "One
People, One Reich, One
Führer."
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.
Caption: This was before
Hitler took over Austria, and
was unhappy with the Austrian
government.
Two Austrian police are
beating a woman. The third
policeman tells the Jewish
reporter than he can't write
about the incident.
The reporter says that it is OK,
since he is using it as a story
about Nazi atrocities in
Germany.
(20 February 1934)
This 1940 poster
advertises the worst of
the Nazi anti-Semitic
films, "The Eternal
Jew."
The ugly Jew is holding part
of Russia under his arm,
branded with the hammer
and sickle. One hand holds
a whip. The other hand
holds bloody coins.
From the film, “The Eternal
Jew.”
What is the “danger” here?
The Jew is holding a “Gentile”
German woman…
The caption reads "The
Jew: The inciter of war,
the prolonger of war."
Released in late 1943
or early 1944.
This poster was issued
around May 1942.
The text translates as:
"This is how we fight.
You, too, must work for
victory."
This poster makes
the most direct
Christological
comparison -- just as
a dove descended on
Christ when he was
baptized by John the
Baptist, so what
looks to be an eagle
hovers against the
light of heaven over
an idealized Hitler.
The text: "Long live
Germany!." 1936
Released late in the war.
The text translates as:
"Mothers! Fight for your
children!"
* Note that the mother
portrayed has four
children, consistent with
the Nazi goal of
encouraging as many
births as possible.
Hubert Lanzinger.
Flag Bearer. 1933.
The elevation of leaders into personality cults.
Cover: "When you see this
symbol..."
Page 2: "Remember what the Jews
have done to our people." The page
reviews World War I, for which the
Jews are held responsible, then states:
"Now for the first time, World Jewry
openly says what it wants: 'Germany
must die!'"
Page 3: "And you can read the Jew's
solution in the booklet The War Aim of
World Plutocracy." A review of
Kaufman's proposal follows. "The
German Wehrmacht will ensure that
World Jewry's terrible plan, as
proclaimed by the Jew Kaufman, will
never become reality.
Page 4: "You must ensure through
your behavior that Jewry never again
has even the slightest influence on our
people."
Legion of Shame
Ignorant, lured by
gold,
They stand disgraced
in Judah’s fold.
Souls poisoned, blood
infected.
Disaster broods in
their wombs.
August 1935
*women who “cave in” to
Jewish pressures…
They belong to
the church, she
belongs to Satan.
Both are lost to
the German
race.“
July 1936
Unfruitful
Why, for what purpose is
the blood flowing?
Behind the scenes, the Jew
grins.
That makes the answer
clear:
They bleed for the Jews.
18 May 1944
Why?
The sword will not be
sheathed.
The Stürmer stands
as ever
In battle for the
people and the
fatherland.
It fights the Jews
because it loves the
people.
November 1935
Loyalty
The German
propaganda machine
went into overdrive
towards the end of
WW2 trying to drive a
wedge between the
Brits and the Yanks.
Anti-Semitism is the political, social, and
economic agitation and activities directed
against Jews. The term is now used to
denote anti-Judaic acts or sentiments
based on any grounds, including religious
ones. The adjective Semitic originally was
applied to all descendants of Shem, the
eldest son of the biblical patriarch Noah; in
later usage it refers to a group of peoples
of southwestern Asia, including both Jews
and Arabs.
The word anti-Semitism was coined in
1879 to denote hostility only towards
Jews. This hostility is supposedly justified
by a theory, first developed in Germany,
that peoples of the so-called Aryan stock
are superior in physique and character to
all those of Semitic stock. This racial
superiority was used to justify the civil and
religious persecution of Jews during
Hitler's Holocaust.
Anti-Semitism
The Chronology of Anti-Semitism
1710 - J.A. Eisenmenger's Judaism Exposed is published.
1764 - Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary gives a secular basis to anti-Jewish
thought.
1782 - The Austrian Emperor, Joseph II, issues an Edict of Toleration,
acknowledging Jews as permanent residents.
1807 - Napoleon revises French provisions for Jewish equality enacted on 1790-
91.
1845 - Alphonse Toussenel, a socialist, condemns "Jewish money power" in his
The Jews, Kings of the Epoch.
1850 - Richard Wagner publishes Jewry in Music under a pseudonym.
1855 - Count Gobineau provides a theoretical basis for racial anti-Semitism in
Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races.
1867-1871 - Germany, Austria, and Hungary institute legal equality for Jews.
1873 - Financial crash causes a major depression in Central Europe.
1879 - Wilhelm Marr introduces the term anti-Semite into politics while founding the first anti-
Semitic party. Court Chaplin Stoecker and his Christian Social party turn to anti-Semitism.
The historian Heinrich von Treitschke publishes "A Word About Our Jews."
1881 - Wide-scale anti-Jewish riots (pogroms) in Russia initiate a massive westward Jewish
emigration.
1886 - Edouard Drumont publishes La France Juive.
1889 - Austrian university fraternities adopt the "Aryan paragraph," prohibiting Jewish
membership.
1895 - Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer on the French General Staff, is convicted of
treason and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island (pardoned in 1906).
1898 - Protocols of the Elders of Zion is fabricated in Paris from old and new materials,
probably by agents of the Okhrana (tsarist secret police).
1898-1900 - Ritual-murder accusations lead to sensational trials of Austria-Hungary and
Prussia.
1912 - Roman Dmowski organizes the boycott of Jewish businesses in Poland.
1917 - Balfour Declaration promises British support for a Jewish national home
in Palestine.
1919 - Minorities' Treaty, safeguarding Jewish equality, is signed by Poland and
Romania.
Pogroms occur in Hungary, following the overthrow of the communist regime of
Bela Kun, and throughout the rest of eastern Europe.
1920 - A quota limiting Jewish attendance is established at Hungarian
universities.
1921 - Henry Ford reissues articles from his newspaper in a four-volume
pamphlet, The International Jew.
1922 - Radical rightists assassinate Walther Rathenau in Germany.
1933 - January 30. Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.
April. Hitler's government institutes an official boycott of Jewish businesses in
Germany, purges the civil service, and restricts admission to public schools
and universities.
1935 - Nuremberg Laws, defining German citizenship in racial terms, abolish
Jewish emancipation in Germany.
1936 - Cardinal Hlond's pastoral letter on the Jewish question in Poland
condemns Jews as atheists and revolutionaries and lends church support for
economic anti-Semitism.
1938 - May. "First Jewish Law" in Hungary limits participation in economic and
professional life.
November 9-10. During the Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass),
stormtroopers burn 300 synagogues, loot and vandalize hundreds of Jewish
shops, kill 91 Jews, and send 25,000 concentration camps.
Hitler
1939 - Beginning in September, the Nazi policy of forced emigration of Jews is
phased out in favor of deporting them to the East, where they are concentrated in
ghettos.
1941 - January. The fascist Iron Guard instigates a wave of pogroms in Romania.
March. Commissariat-General for Jewish Affairs, created by the Vichy regime, directs
anti- Jewish policies in France.
September 29-30. 33,771 Jews are massacred at Babi Yar, outside of Kiev.
1942 - January 20. The Wannsee Conference systematizes the Final Solution of the
Jewish Question.
By April, Einsatzgruppen (mobile death squads) operating behind the advancing
German armies have murdered 461,500 Soviet Jews.
July-September. First phase of mass deportations of Western-European Jews to
Auschwitz.
1943 - January-April. Jews inside the Warsaw ghetto resist deportation.
October. Operation "Reinhard" ends; 1.5 million Jews have been exterminated in
the death camps at Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka.
1944 - By July 7, over 437,000 Hungarian Jews have been deported to
Auschwitz.
October 7. Jewish prisoners revolt in Auschwitz.
1945 - April-May. With the collapse of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust ends.
1948 - Founding of the State of Israel.
1953 - The manufactured "Jewish Doctors' Plot" against high-ranking officials
exploits latent anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union.
1962 - Anti-Semitic outrages occur in Argentina.
1967 - The Six-Day War in the Middle East launches a sustained anti-Zionist
campaign in the Eastern Bloc.
1979 - The Call, Cairo newspaper of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood,
condemns a monolithic Jewish conspiracy against Islam.
1987 - Several Anti-Semitic works, including Protocols, become best sellers
in Japan.
Taken from: Anti-Semitism in the Modern World: An Anthology of Texts D.C.
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