Hitler 's Propaganda Meant For The Nazis And The Population Of Germany

     Alike, “The Poster” was the most prominent form of psychological manipulation during Stalin's reign. Until World War I the poster had avoided social themes. However, as Stalin’s Russia rose to war and as a world power, the posters took a turn to be commercial and cultural, an attempt to develop an expanding market and advertise various entertainments. The posters of World War II took on a new task: to mobilize the population in support of the war effort. Stalin’s Posters featured themes of mobilizing the armed forces, reconstructing the economy, as well as various specific war time problems. It was at this point that the government began to make efforts to “shape public opinion” and “arouse patriotic feelings”. The government assigned this task to the mass media. Every political event in Russia found resonance in

Propaganda is information of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view. Hitler was able to use propaganda successfully throughout his reign as leader to shine light on his views, the biggest one being anti-Semitism. The Nazi party spread their propaganda through art, music, theatre, films, books, radio, educational materials and the press. Hitler used propaganda as a way of persuading German people into prejudice. Propaganda was used

Adolf Hitler used propaganda to turn people against Jews, blacks and about everyone else that was not German and he also use it to make people want to join Nazi army. Franklin Roosevelt or F.D.R also use the science of propaganda to turn people against Germany, Italy and Japan. Hitler had first become aware of propaganda and its uses before the First World War. During the war he saw the effect of British propaganda on the soldiers of the Central Powers. Later on after the war Hitler wrote a book called Mein Kampf (My Struggle), he devoted two whole chapters to the study and practice of propaganda. He once said “the psyche of the masses,” he wrote, “is not receptive to anything that is weak. They are like a woman, whose psychic state determined less by abstract reason than by an emotional longing for a strong force will complement her nature. Likewise, the masses love a commander, and despise a petitioner” (Hitler). After many speeches and papers he wrote on

The use of propaganda at that time wasnt just putting posters around town. The Nazis produced textbooks, flims, comics and even specific radio stations. The use of all of the propaganda may have seemed minor but because the Nazis went overboard today we look at propaganda as a horrible thing. The use of propaganda is just reminding the people in the holocuast that their lives werent worth anything and gave them broken faith, which was the point.

Hitler used propaganda to help get people to follow what he believed. He would tell them things to scare them and let them hear what they wanted to hear until he got into power then he turned right around on them. When he got put in power he hired someone to keep up with his propaganda for him. That person controlled what people could practice, read, listen to, watch, and draw. They controlled what religion you were allowed to have but during Hitlers time you could not practice a religion because he was antireligious. Anyone who practice religion would be killed or worked to death. Hitler eventually put fear in everyone; people were hiding everywhere they could like in the book Ann Frank they hid in a room behind a bookcase because they were Jewish and did not want to be killed, but someone told on them and they ended up being sent to camps ("Propaganda"). "I'm trying to imagine what a Jewish state ought to look like, priest should be confined to their temples in the same way that soldiers should be confined to their barracks" (Herzi ¶16).

Tadeusz Trepkowski was the first Polish poster designer to emerge after WWII who lived from 1915 until 1954, unfortunately dying at the young age of forty. (RoGallery) His training evolved from his education at “Printing Industry School and City College of Decorative Arts and Painting in Warsaw.” (RoGallery, 2013) Trepkowski’s anti-war, publicity, and political poster art became very prominent after WWII - when the poster became a “great source of national pride for Poland” (Meggs, Philip and Alston Purvis, 2012) and became very “important for communications” (Meggs, Philip and Alston Purvis, 2012) due to a lack of television and broadcasting in Poland during that time. (Meggs, Philip and Alston Purvis) Trepkowski was deeply affected by World

Adolf Hitler and many more totalitarian leaders used propaganda to make people feel better about their country. This allows people to feel as Nationalistic as the leaders felt about their country. Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi Government in Germany in the 1930s. He used lots of propaganda to be able to get power, and by using propaganda he got people to believe that there country would go back to the way it was. Document G was written by Alice Hamilton, an American Professor. In this document it talks about Hitler Youth and what they have been learning in school. It states, “The most important subject in the new curriculum is history, with the emphasis laid on German heroes, German inventors, German rulers, poets, artists. The German

The history of graphic art and the cycle of politicization, depoliticization and then repoliticization span the late 19th century through and into the 21st century. Evolving from humble beginnings into the commercial behemoth it’s become to today this essay will explore graphic design’s evolution and the politics that affected this growing art movement during this influential timeline.

In 1933 the German government was taken over by the Nazis. That is when the Hitler propaganda began. The Hitler propaganda is the spread of idea National socialism. Hitler propaganda started in 1933. His propaganda was used to spread of national socialism.

The conditions that allowed the Fascist leaders to take control before World War 2 was when propaganda and indoctrination lead people to easily believe that they need to deify their leader and never question them. Fascism is a form of totalitarianism that focuses on nationalism, militarism and racism. Fascist dictators, like Hitler, focused on building up the military in order to expand the nation through conquest. Hitler wanted to rule the world by having a war, leading him to take full control. During the 1920s, global economic depression has also helped Hitler to take control since he promised to make Germany great again after losing World War 1 and having the Treaty of Versailles against Germany. The Treaty of Versailles made Germany pay full war reparations and not allow military, making Germany very hopeless and depressed economically.

The use of radios and the audience increased during 1933 to 1945 which made the radio a powerful and important tool for the Nazi leaders to influence the german public.

I chose to research world war 2 because I am into history and Hitler is one of the many leaders. To come up with a research question, I ask myself why it’s important to learn about Hitler. After researching a little about him, my research question is “how did Hitler’s propaganda and ideas, persuade the German people to elect him as their chancellor”? I narrow my search by looking at the historical figures in world war 2. I look at who had the most impact and who I can learn the most about that will interest me? I found out that Hitler’s leadership skills are very important to how he got into power. With this information, my final thesis is “Hitler’s propaganda and ideas brought him to power by taking advantage of the Treaty of Versailles and

I plan to answer the following essential question: how can art be used to depict political views? I also hope to address these other questions that follow the essential one: Do “political art” and “propaganda art” mean the same thing? How can I make meaningful art from political perspectives that are not my own? Why do certain political symbols and images spread (the pink “pussy hats”,

Key avant-garde movements, including Suprematism, Constructivism and Futurism, influenced contemporary political graphics of the twentieth century. Particularly focusing on political and propaganda posters of the Soviet Union it is evident they were influenced by avant-garde movements that were developing in neighboring and western countries during the same period. Suprematism, focusing on basic geometric shapes with a limited range of colours is evident in numerous propaganda posters in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century. Constructivism, developing from Russian Futurism is aimed to create works that would make the viewer an active viewer. Futurism also influences the posters in a way that allows them to illustrate futuristic and abstract things as well as many posters containing qualities of cubism. Being influenced by these movements it gave the Russian government a way to show they weren’t old fashioned and were able to keep updated with the developing countries around them.

Propaganda art is not just a fine art. It is an information transmission art that contains clear meaning, and the most popular political vehicle for propaganda in the 20th century of China. Propaganda art must have considerable artistic appeal to mobilize image, color, composition, form and other factors to form a strong visual effect. Its screen often has a strong visual center, unique artistic style and design characteristic. However, during that time, the public did not have awareness of collecting art work. Thus, little Propaganda art still exists today even though many of the propaganda posters were reprinted over and over, and pasted in various streets during that time. Propaganda art played an important role in the spiritual and cultural life of the Chinese people. As propaganda art has a special social status during the Revolutionary War and Socialist Construction period of China, it has attracted many successful artists to engage in the creation of posters. This resulted in different forms of propaganda art being produced. As a result, propaganda art had become an indispensable form of Chinese artistic creation in the 20th century.