1. Complete the following sentence:
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Complete the following sentence:
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What you’re going to learn today is that this is an example of Propaganda.

2. Propaganda
The deliberate use of images, media and information to affect public opinion
SPEECHES
NEWSPAPERS
MUSIC
TELEVISION
MAGAZINES
THEATER
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FILM
BOOKS

3. Six Methods of Effective Propaganda
Repeats Information over and over.
Twists and Exploits the truth.
Appeals to people’s emotions.
Gives the illusion that most people agree with the message.
Talks to people in their own language.
Uses the media.

4. A mother and her young boy 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:
“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.”

6. The caption in this picture reads: “Whenever you see a crucifix, think of the horrible murder of Jesus by the Jews.” The Nazis used this common belief among Christians to further alienate Jews. Nazi ideology, however, was against all religions and viewed Christianity as a transferred form of Judaism. Some Aryan symbols appear in this picture such as the bright hair, the connection to nature, children, and the continuity of the race.

7. The picture on the right is meant to prey on parental fears that parents have that a stranger will try to harm their child. You have an old ugly Jew trying to lure the innocent Aryan children over with candy.

8. Jews who assimilated German culture or converted to the Catholic religion did not matter to the Nazis, according to this Propaganda Cartoon.
“Being baptized didn’t turn him into a non-Jew”

9. In this picture Mr. Birkmann explains to his seventh grade class how to tell a person is a Jew. The six on the board is supposed to represent the Jewish nose. According to Mr. Birkmann Jews also usually have dark hair curly hair like a Negro, a receding forehead, thick lips, and eyebrows.

10. Nazi Propaganda
Masses parade with Nazi flags in honor of the dead on Reichsparteitag.
This was a large Nazi propaganda event. The Reichsparteitage was held annually at the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg from 1933 to 1938 and are thus usually referred to in English as the Nuremberg Rallies.