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German Propaganda Posters
• Posters were an important propaganda
tool
• The imagery can help to plant suggestions
in people’s heads
You are about to see some classic posters from the Nazi era.
See if you can spot the things they are trying to suggest.
HINT: Nothing was ever put in the posters by accident.
Everything carries a message.
Definition of Propaganda
• Propaganda is a type of message aimed at influencing
the opinions or behavior of people. Instead impartially
providing information, propaganda is often deliberately
misleading.
Types of propaganda include
• Books
• Pamphlets
• Posters
• Radio messages
• Political campaigns
• Movies
• TV programs
• Commercials
Eternal Jews
There is a
hammer and
sickle on a map of
Germany –
suggests a link
between Jews and
Communism
He is hunched
over – suggests
Jews are not
normal
The hand is
begging for
money – Jews
were accused of
greed
He is holding a
whip. He is a
‘slave-driver’
The poster for the 'Eternal Jews' exhibition, 1937 ©
Your Own Car
The
mountains
suggest a link
between
Germans and
the rural ideal
The woman is
blond haired
and dressed
conservatively.
This is a
typical Nazi
view of women
Nazi policies are
associated with
wealth and a
good lifestyle
'Your Own KdF-Car' poster, 1939 ©
They are
obviously
happy with
this lifestyle
The seed of peace not dragon’s teeth
There is an
angel. This
suggests that
German
greatness is a
positive thing
and not a
threat
The imagery is
quite deliberate. It
is based on a
parable in the bible
in which a man
sows seeds.
Suggests a link
between Hitler and
God
'The seed of peace, not dragon's teeth' cartoon of Hitler, from the magazine Kladderadatsch, 22 March 1936 ©
The following posters represent only
a tiny portion of the thousands of
posters produced by the Nazi party
during the 1930s and 1940s.
However, they do represent some of
the ideas the Nazis were trying to
impress upon the German people.
Identify the techniques these posters
use to make the audience think and
feel in certain ways.
“Long live Germany!”
This poster probably comes from the mid-1930's.
The caption: "Hitler is building. Help him. Buy German goods."
This poster promoted education.
The caption: "Adolf Hitler's youth attends community schools.“
Mid 1930s
.
The text of this 1940 poster reads: "Youth Serves the Führer.
All 10-year-olds into the Hitler Youth."
Membership in the Hitler Youth had become mandatory in 1936.
"One People, One Reich, One Führer."
This 1940 poster advertises the worst of the Nazi antiSemitic films, "The Eternal Jew."
The caption: "The Jew: The inciter of war, the prolonger of
war." This poster was released in late 1943 or early 1944
Title: Loyalty
Caption:
The sword will not be sheathed.
The Stürmer stands as ever
In battle for the people and the fatherland.
It fights the Jews because it loves the people.
November 1935
The cartoon shows a photograph of a Jew captioned "Satan." Streicher
regularly used the old religious argument that the Jews were in league
with the Devil.
The Poisonous Mushroom by Julius Streicher. The cruel children’s
book was often taught in schools.
Money Is The God Of The Jews: "The God of the Jews is money. To earn
money, he commits the greatest crimes. He will not rest until he can sit on a
huge money sack, until he has become the king of money."*
Money
• In 1939 this bill was issued showing the
Aryan ideal woman holding Eidelweiss
Back of bill
Landscape with a lumberjack and a sower.