1. Why did the German people allow this to take place?
Guiding Question…
Why did the German people allow this to take place?

2. Propaganda

3. Symbols, images, words, or music
What is Propaganda?
Biased information
Simplifies complex issues or ideas
Created to shape public opinion and behavior
The spreading of information to manipulating public opinion to gain support for one’s cause
True, partially true, or blatantly false information
Plays on emotions
Symbols, images, words, or music

4. Propaganda = carefully crafted media messages that manipulate people’s actions and/or beliefs

5. We are going to look at 6 different techniques that the media uses to persuade you….. Essential question: Do any of these messages tell you anything factual about the product/idea/institution?

6. Bandwagon Creates the impression that everyone is doing whatever it is and you are missing out somehow…..

7. Name-Calling Exactly as it sounds
Name-Calling Exactly as it sounds. Propaganda that uses negative words/bad names to create fear/dislike for people, ideas and institutions.
May NOM flooded New York homes with mailer ads claiming that supporters of marriage equality were looking to “poison young minds” and “forever change the innocence of our kids”:

8. Glittering Generalities Use a positive catchphrase and have little to no information.

9. Plain Folks Technique designed to send the message that a product or person is just like you. (so, you can trust it/them)

10. Transfer Uses your feelings about one thing to get you to feel the same way about something else.

11. Propaganda IN NAZI GERMANY
Bandwagon
Plain Folks
Transfer
Fear/Card Stacking
Glittering Generalities
Name-calling

12. Bandwagon
Appeals to a person’s desire to be on the winning side

13. Plain Folks
An attempt to convince the public that the views reflect those of the “common person.”
“Workers are Hitler’s soldiers at the front”

14. Transfer Used to transfer negative feelings for one object to another
An anti-Semitic poster published in Poland in March The caption reads, "Jews are lice; They cause typhus."

15. Fear/Card Stacking
Presents information that is positive and omits information contrary to it.
“All of Germany Listens to the Führer with the People’s Radio.”

16. Glittering Generalities
Emotional-appealing words to invoke powerful emotions such as: honor, glory, love of country, and freedom
“LONG LIVE GERMANY”

17. Name-calling
Attempts to arouse prejudice among the public by labeling the target something that the public dislikes
“Just as it is often hard to tell a toadstool from an edible mushroom, so too it is often very hard to recognize the Jew as a swindler and criminal.”

18. Nazi Propaganda Practices

19. Nazi propaganda idolized Hitler
Under the Nazi regime, Germans were expected to pay public allegiance to the Hitler such as giving the Nazi salute and greeting others on the street with “Heil Hitler!”
Making a leader

20. Propaganda Facts
Nazi propaganda frequently stressed the power of a mass movement to propel the country forward, hence the
upward angle of the hands.
Millions of German young people were won over to Nazism in the classroom and through extracurricular activities.

21. Please use your corresponding worksheets with the next set of slides

22. Anti-Semitic Children’s Books
Used as instructional resources in German schools.
Trust No Fox in the Green Meadow and No Jew on His Oath
The Poisonous Mushroom

23. Group Work Instructions
Answer all questions in complete sentences. Have one member to write the answers and one member to present.
What is the Nazi’s point of view based on this cartoon?
The most effective posters use symbols that are unusual, simple, and direct. What symbols (if any) are used in the poster and what do they symbolize?
Explain why this cartoon is persuasive?
What does the Nazi Government hope the audience will do as a result of this cartoon?

24. “The Spider”
This cartoon appeared in the 26th edition of an anti-Semitic weekly newspaper in It reads, "The Spider. Many victims are trapped in the web, caught by flattering words. Rip the web of deceit and free German youth."

25. "Behind the enemy powers: the Jew."
What does the title mean?

26. “Illustrating the Jew as a devil ”
German Newspaper

27. ‘Jews Poison” "Just wait, we'll put a stop to your dirty tricks."

28. “Weakness Costs”
Daily cost to the state of maintaining one chronically ill person (5.5 marks) could be better spent
supporting an entire healthy German family.

30. Testimonial
Endorsements to connect a famous person with a product or ideal “sell” the product or ideal.
I know, I know this is the only example I could find. No, Tiger is NOT a Nazi!