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HOW COULD THIS HAVE
HAPPENED?
6 Million People Killed
What would have justified this to a
country of people?
PROPAGANDA
PROPAGANDA
Dictionary Definition: False or partly
false information used by a government or
political party intended to sway the
opinions of the population.
It’s Everywhere!
Techniques are used
everyday in the:
• Military
• Media
• Advertising
• Politics
• All types of Human
Relationships
The Power of Persuasion
• A message carefully
designed to influence our
opinions, emotions,
attitude, and behavior.
• It’s purpose is to
persuade us to believe in
something or to do
something we would not
normally believe or do.
War Time
• First used during
WWI on recruitment
posters.
• Revived during WWII.
• Best known poster of
any era.
WWII
Instills fear and paranoia.
Well meaning citizens could easily compromise national
security and soldiers’ safety with careless talk.
Appeals to our emotions
Everyone Must Do Their Part!
The Early Years
- Planting the seed of his hatred.
Hitler’s Plan
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Hitler hired Joseph Goebbels to
head his propaganda campaign.
Every possible form of
communication was used, from
speeches to radio, from books to
pamphlets, and everything in
between.
The power of his persuasion.
Appeals to emotions.
Everyone must do their part!
The Nazis wage war against the Jews, using
rhetoric and propaganda at first.
Der Ewige Jude (The Wandering
Jew)
•
Anti-semitic propaganda exhibit
opens on November 8th, 1937.
•
Portrays the Jewish people as
communists and criminals.
•
Over 150,000 people attended in
three days.
•
The exhibit later becomes a hate
film associating the Jewish people
with rats and other vermin.
Symbols of Evil
Educating the Future!
• Both of these pictures are
from children’s books.
• The sign reads “Jews are
not wanted here.”
• Headlines read “Jews are
our misfortune” and,
“How the Jew cheats.”
(Germany 1936)
EDUCATING THE FUTURE
Three Little Pigs
http://www.schooltube.com/video/2c3ecfb7c
bd444c69116/Three%20Little%20Pigs%2
0%20American%20WWII%20Propaganda
The Ductators
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f22yWBr
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