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Polarization is using propaganda to divide society even further into the “us versus them” mindset.
Polarization is using propaganda to divide society even further into the “us versus them” mindset.
The Nazis also used propaganda to promote their racist ideas and beliefs. For example, school textbooks and educational materials were altered to include anti-Semitic content. Children were taught distorted views of history that vilified Jews, perpetuating dehumanizing narratives from a young age.
Beginning in March 1933, Nazi Joseph Goebbels was given an official government position as the leader of propaganda. Below you will find some of the troubling propaganda posters created under Goebbels leadership. All of them were designed to glorify Hitler and the Aryan race, and to put down any other ethnic groups.
#1- English translation:
#1- English translation:
Der Jude ist ein Bastard./The Jew is a bastard.
#2- English translation:
#2- English translation:
Writers (authors) can only be of Aryan descent
#3- The poster warns of interracial relationships, justifying and explaining the Nuremberg laws. The text reads:
#3- The poster warns of interracial relationships, justifying and explaining the Nuremberg laws. The text reads:
"Race Pollution. Since 1923, Julius Streicher has enlightened the public about race pollution. In 1933, the Fuehrer declared race pollution a crime, punishable by imprisonment. Nevertheless, thousands of race crimes continue to be committed in Germany by Jews. What is Race Pollution? Why did the Fuehrer proclaim the Nuremberg Laws? Why do Jews, systematically and in massive numbers, commit racial crimes against the German woman? What are the consequences of race pollution for the German maiden? What are the consequences of race pollution for the German Volk? The new Stuermer special issue."
#4- Nazi propaganda racial portraits of a half-Jewish girl & boy. The text reads:
#4- Nazi propaganda racial portraits of a half-Jewish girl & boy. The text reads:
"Mischlinge (half-Jewish), -- as the Jew breeds, they are always physical and spiritual bastards."
#5- Nazi propaganda composite photograph showing mentally disabled children. The original caption reads:
#5- Nazi propaganda composite photograph showing mentally disabled children. The original caption reads:
"The National Socialist State in the future will prevent people whose lives are not worth living from being born."
#6- Nazi propaganda racial portraits of non-Aryans; the top portrait is of an Asian; the bottom is of an African. The original caption reads:
#6- Nazi propaganda racial portraits of non-Aryans; the top portrait is of an Asian; the bottom is of an African. The original caption reads:
"Then these are barely recognizable as human beings."
#7- An antisemitic Nazi poster titled, "The cats will not let the mice be!"
#7- An antisemitic Nazi poster titled, "The cats will not let the mice be!"
Jews are defined as the enemy of the German people. The smaller sign at the lower left reads: "Whoever wears this badge is an enemy of our people." In the text at the upper left is a quotation from a statement made by Chief Rabbi Hertz of London about the harm done by British Jews who engage in illegal war profiteering.
#8- Nazi propaganda of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor before a rising sun with a swastika at its center. The text reads:
#8- Nazi propaganda of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor before a rising sun with a swastika at its center. The text reads:
"You, German people,
Behold your emblem,
The shackles of poverty have given way,
The sun of freedom leads you from serfdom.
A new Germany greets the dawn!"
All images and translations were taken from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website.
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