The Influence Of Cartoons In Nazi Germany

The cartoon depicts They are attempting to appeal to Logos, the logical side in the readers, and Pathos, the emotional side or more specifically ability to empathize, respectively. Many cartoonists make satires and ironic cartoons that are meant to bring something important to the artists into public knowledge, and some just want to poke fun at some habits or traditions of other cultures and religion. However there are those who take it too far, which is where Logos comes in. Most readers, at least the ones the cartoons are not ridiculing, find it very easy to just laugh off an offensive joke, but as demonstrated by Sacco, it’s very easy to cross the line between a harmless, informative joke and a borderline cruel mockery of something that is important or sacred to others. Pathos, on the other hand, is used to appeal to the emotional side of readers by asking them to empathize with the Jews that have been persecuted, as some believe, for simply been more successful during a time of high rates of unemployment. Sacco obviously wants us to see that in the right context almost anything can be hurtful. The statement "When we draw a line, we are often crossing one too" reinforces that

For years follow the Holocaust and still today, people find themselves wondering -- why the Jews? Why would Hitler target the Jews primarily of all other groups that could be found in the population of Germany? The number of Jewish people in this world currently amounts to about 14 million people which results in less than 0.2% of the overall population. Hitler’s reasoning for blaming the Jews wasn’t because they deserved to be hated, but instead that they were already dug deep into a hole that made others find it easy to hate this group of people based on hundreds of years of discrimination and false information.

During the first part of Hitler’s Regime, the government established concentration camps to confine and detain anyone the Nazi’s though as political, cultural and ideological opponents. The first Concentration camp was built in January, 1933, right after Hitler came into power. Hitler gained further support for his ideas by propaganda, which filled the media of Germany with pro-nazi material. All forms of communication; newspapers, radio, books, TV, art, music and movies were controlled by the Nazis. This way, nonother than what the Nazi’s wanted published could only be distributed to its society, and preventing news about the Holocaust from getting anywhere outside of Germany. This propaganda identified the Jews as an inferior ‘race’, and the source of Germany’s defeat and economic depression in world war one on them.

The Nazis and Hitler used extreme propaganda in attempt for people to accept their actions. Hitler made the Jews out to be a problem and a threat to the purity and perfection of German society (Holocaust Encyclopdia: Nazi Propaganda ). In Hitler’s speech to the Reichstag in September, 1942, he states,

Originating in the 19th century, political cartoons are created and drawn as a means to deliver a message. Whether it be about politics, events or social concerns, the artist is able to express themselves creatively. The cartoons are not only meant to express the view of the creator, but are also open to interpretation. Most political cartoons have a biased point of view and uses rhetoric to persuade its audience.

When George Orwell writes his dystopian novel ‘1984’ in 1949, he is extremely disturbed with the state of the world after witnessing the methods of the Soviet Union and other fascist regimes during World War Two. During this period, the Soviet Union famously burned books and controlled all media outlets

Most of us have heard of the Nazi party’s horrific, genocidal regime on destroying the Jewish race, but what events led up to their dire judgement? In this study I aim to uncover the events, reasons and changes which led to the Holocaust and the further changes in the treatment of the Jewish race by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party.

Hitler and the Nazis used propaganda to suppress the Jews’ freedoms and human rights. Films portrayed Germans as powerful and mighty while showing the Jews to be “subhuman creatures” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 1). German newspapers portrayed Jews in their cartoons as anti semitic caricatures while radios played Hitler’s manipulative speeches all over Germany. By dehumanizing Jewish people through propaganda, Hitler was able to encourage Germans to support the Nazis and look down on the Jews. Without propaganda, less people would have been motivated to support Hitler.

Mein Kampf is one of Hitler’s most highly recognizable publishing’s to date. Within his novel, Hitler strategically uses a political tone, while belittling and dehumanizing the Jewish ‘race’ as a whole. His proper and sophisticated style of writing persuaded extensive amounts of the German population to agree with his crooked agenda to exterminate all Jews. Hitler depicted his tyrannical proposals as necessary and described his plans to begin a “…holy war against the Jews,” in order to save, purify and unite the German state (Graml, 37).

Glenn Beck, a renown conservative with extreme political theories, is included in the cartoon as a book to learn from as well, further emphasizing ideologies like his plot against government and numerical claims that “10 percent of all muslims are terrorists,” . In an analysis of the textbooks passed by the board, reviewers found that the books do not have any negative attitudes towards capitalism, viewed christianity as a harmless takeover of indigenous culture, and racially categorized many diverse african groups as one unity, calling them “negros”. World history textbooks emphasized the violence in Islamic countries, and related it to the terrorism and additional issues western countries have today. The statement, ““Much of the violence you read or hear about in the Middle East is related to a jihad,” is an example of the racism and bias towards Islam. From a developmental age, reading about these ideas will encourage racist attitudes and negativity towards certain ideals in the student’s future. Through political cartoons, artists attempt to persuade readers to their standpoint, and to go against the idea portrayed in the cartoon.

Adolf Hitler used propaganda throughout Germany to brainwash people to believe that that “the Jews are our misfortune”. Some of the tools that he used as propaganda against the Jews was the weekly newspaper called the “der sturmer” which meant the attacker. At the front of all the newspapers it said in bold that the Jews are our misfortune. There were also many cartoons that showed Jews as if they were hooked-nosed. The influence of the newspaper was spreading fast and by 1938 almost half a million copies where distributed a week.

From 1937 to 1940 most of the anti-Semitic cartoons depicted zoomorphic Jews. The animals portrayed took on features attributed to the Jews such as large noses, evil smirks, and claw-like hands preying on world domination. This technique is called ‘crude zoomorphism’ and stereotypes humans as animals (Garrard). “The notion of animality assumed here is uncontrolled in violence” and it is used to condemn a certain group of people (Garrard). A prime example of these monstrous animal depictions comes from an issue of Der Sturmer from 1937 titled “The Economy and Jewry” that presented a cartoon titled “Demon Money”. A wild animal, as the subject of the painting, is engraved with the Star of David over his heart, labeling that the Jews had intentions

Its appearance almost always accompanies the strategic and parodic veiling of the human. The illustrative style of such comics has much to do with the way this process of defamiliarization works, and we must not forget that the primary mode of representation in them is never simply language—with its conceptual relations between signifer and signified—but pictures, which bear an indexical or perceptual relation to the things they represent. (130)

The Power of Visual Politics Political cartoons are some of the most powerful aids people have to prove their points in the world of politics and are some of the most important persuasive tools available to change reader’s opinions. This is true because they use irony, are entertaining, whimsical, and are based on truths that can be easily seen by everyone and so can be judged upon. They are especially powerful because they take the worst, most obvious side of a character and display it in an enunciated way so that nobody could possibly miss what it is trying to say.

The United States and the Soviet Union: What kind of children is brought up by the ideology of cartoons. When a child watching the cartoon, they are still very young to decide what is normal and what is not. When they see that in the cartoons, Characters behave in any way,