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Propaganda in World War II
Propaganda played an immense role in World War II. Propaganda was a common tactic that influenced citizens to contribute to the war efforts by fighting, buying bonds from the government, and simply to support their fight. Propaganda would often spread false, misleading or most of the time exaggerated information to demonize certain countries or religions, more specific to Germany, Judaism. Nazi propaganda was the most influential and overall affective propaganda that was displayed during WWII. The Nazi’s succeeded in turning a whole country against one religion, and even made them believe one religion was responsible for everything wrong in their country, including the war. Hitler achieved this by using strict, government controlled anti-semitic propaganda. Although, Nazi propaganda lacked something that American, and other allied countries shared. Nazi propaganda was rarely encouraging, and more mean-spirited and resentful, which only helped its effectiveness.
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“World War II Propaganda.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goebbels-propaganda/.
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German political cartoon. The cartoon reads: “His way to ‘liberate’ Europe!” This cartoon was produced closer to the end of the war. Common German theme in Propaganda was illustrating enemy countries as very grim and evil creatures. The exaggeration helped the persuasiveness of their propaganda. Cartoon from Lustige Blätter, A weekly German humor magazine that published tons of political cartoons.
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Here is a short American propaganda film. This film boasts the US as the “Arsenal of Democracy” that creates the necessities for war. The film was used to boost spirits about the war, and show Americans the dedicated effort that was put into the fighting overseas.
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Another popular tactic that made German propaganda so effective was making sure anti-semitic propaganda and news was available for citizens to see everywhere. In this picture, a German couple reads the popular anti-semitic newspaper “Der Stürmer” (The Attacker)
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Although the United States propaganda was generally more enlightening and encouraging than German propaganda, they did have discriminating and demonizing propaganda as well. Demonizing propaganda seemed to be more affective overall versus enlightening, light-hearted propaganda.
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An example of anti-semitic propaganda used by the Nazis. This piece reads “Behind the enemy powers: the Jew.” German propaganda would often portray Jews to be involved in war efforts for the Allied powers.
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This piece of German propaganda was used during the elections in Germany. Just like the Russians, the propaganda targeted the working class and the unemployed. Unlike the Russians, though, they boasted a “savior” for their working class, one that the Russian working class didn’t need at the time. In this specific peace, it reads “Our Last Hope: Hitler.” Art by Hans Schweitzer
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This is a popular example of Russian Propaganda. Russian propaganda tended to be aimed at the working class and the unemployed, encouraging them to join the fight, even if they weren’t physically fighting. This example shows propaganda encouraging Russians to get to work and build more tanks to “win the war” against Nazi Germany. Art by El Lissitzky.
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