1932 Electoral Poster
Source: Calvin College, German Propaganda Archive, "Early Nazi Posters" (http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/posters/hitler.jpg) Within [Nazi] culture there is no progression, no development, for “truth” was accepted as given … What developed between 1933 and 1939 was the level of effective enforcement, not the kind of culture which was to be enforced. (xxii)
Source: Mosse, George L. Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural, and Social Life in the Third Reich (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1966).
[Hitler, 1937]: “’To be German is to be clear,” and that means to be German us to be logical and true.”
The Speeches of Adolf Hitler [Vol I.], trans. and ed. Norman H. Baynes (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1942), p. 586
Reading Nazi Propaganda: SOAPS (See Handout)
Excerpts from Nazi propaganda manuals
Nazi Handbill (1927)
Source: Calvin College, German Propaganda Archive, "Early Nazi Posters" (http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/posters/1927.jpg)
1: JAMILLA, KYLIE, GABERIEL
"We are voting for Hindenburg!""We are voting for Hitler"
"Look at these faces, and you'll know where they belong" (1932)
Source: Calvin College, German Propaganda Archive, "Early Nazi Posters" (http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/posters/wahl.jpg)
[Hitler’s] own world view is Volkish: based upon the principles which are fundamental to all of life. Thus race is the foundation of all culture. (2)
Source: Mosse, George L. Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural, and Social Life in the Third Reich (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1966).
2: KAYLA, MARJORIE
"We women vote for List 2: The National Socialists" (1932) Source: Calvin College, German Propaganda Archive, "Early Nazi Posters"
(http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/posters/frauen.jpg)
3: RYAN, EMMA, CARLO
"Workers of the mind and hand! Vote for the front solider, Adolf Hitler!" (1932)Source: Calvin College, German Propaganda Archive, "Early Nazi Posters"
(http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/posters/1932b.jpg)
Because if his belief that an ideology is unimportant unless it is embodied in a mass movement, Hitler’s concept of the masses is of the greatest importance. (3)
Source: Mosse, George L. Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural, and Social Life in the Third Reich (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1966).
4: TAYLOR, AUTUMN, DUNCAN
"We are for Adolf Hitler!" (1932)
Source: Calvin College, German Propaganda Archive, "Early Nazi Posters"
(http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/posters/1932a.jpg)
Propaganda, as Hitler used the word and as the Nazis put into practice, is the infusion of cultural attitudes into the mass of Germans (3)
Source: Mosse, George L. Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural, and Social Life in the Third Reich (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1966).
5: McRAE, JASMINE
"Work, Freedom, and Bread!"
"Vote National-Socialist List-8" (1932)
Source: Calvin College, German Propaganda Archive, "Early Nazi Posters"
(http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/posters/1932a.jpg)
