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Propaganda

Tara Armstrong
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.
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.
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.
The contrast between the young German man and hunched, overweight Jewish
male, split the two factions. It was this style of propaganda 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.
Even the minds of children were infiltrated by the Nazi spread of Jewish hate. This
here is a childrens book, one of many teaching anti-Jewish notions. In the Poison
Mushroom, mother and son are gathering mushrooms in the German forest. The
boy finds some poisonous ones. The mother explains that there are good
mushrooms and poisonous ones, and, as they go home, says:
Look, Franz, human beings in this world are like the mushrooms in the forest.
There are good mushrooms and there are good people. There are poisonous, bad
mushrooms and there are bad people. And we have to be on our guard against bad
people just as we have to be on guard against poisonous mushrooms
. However they disguise themselves, or however friendly they try to be, affirming
a thousand times their good intentions to us, one must not believe them. Jews
they are and Jews they remain. For our Volk they are poison.
Like the poisonous mushroom! says Franz. The Jews were dehumanized in this
way, the children reading these stories were conditioned from a young age that
this is a Jew, he is not human, he is dangerous and needs to be removed.

There were other books, one in particular on the identification of the Jew, was
similar to the identification of a disease. It ended with this chilling statement:
From a Jew's face
The wicked Devil speaks to us,
The Devil who, in every country,
Is known as evil plague.
Would we from the Jew be free,
Again be gay and happy,
Then must youth fight with us
To get rid of the Jewish Devil.
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.
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. 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.
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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