Analysis of Nazi Propaganda A Behavioral Study
نویسنده
چکیده
As we examine the chronology of events leading up to the Holocaust, it becomes vital to understand the role of propaganda in perpetuating a crime of this proportion. To this end, this paper will analyze the fundamental tenets of Nazi propaganda, and the role that they played in not just the genocide of Jews, Romani peoples, homosexuals, and other undesirables, but also in helping turn Germany into an aggressor nation.
منابع مشابه
Marking Time Women and Nazi Propaganda Art during World War II
"Marking Time" considers the relative scarcity of woman's image in Nazi propaganda posters during World War II. This scarcity departs from the ubiquity of women in paintings and sculptures of the same period. In the fine arts, woman served to solidify the "Nazi myth" and its claim to the timeless time of an Aryan order simultaneously achieved and yet to come. Looking at poster art and using Ern...
متن کاملA Psychoanalytic View of Racial Myths in a Nazi Propaganda Film: Der Ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew)
This paper describes the emotional appeal of propaganda utilizing concepts from psychoanalysis, small group psychology, and psychohistory. The film propagandist attempts to exploit irrational emotional responses to visual scenes and commentary to change attitudes, values, and behavior in a mass setting. A link between shared unconscious fantasies and myth is offered as an explanatory concept to...
متن کاملAnti-Slavic imagery in German radical nationalist discourse at the turn of the twentieth century: a prelude to Nazi ideology?
By applying methods of cognitive metaphor theory, Jaworska examines metaphorical scenarios employed in the discourse of anti-Slavism, which featured prominently in radical nationalist propaganda in Germany at the turn of the twentieth century. She does so by analysing metaphorical expressions used to refer to the Polish population living in the eastern provinces of Prussia, in the so-called Ost...
متن کاملThe Nazi war on cancer
In this pathbreaking and courageous study, Robert N Proctor not only tells a fascinating story but also makes an important historiographical critique. The horrors of Nazi science have been documented with almost missionary zeal over the years, he observes, leading to a one-dimensional portrayal of Nazi Germany as an intellectual backwater and Nazi science as quackery. In the process, many notab...
متن کاملMapping under the Third Reich: Nazi Restrictions on Map Content and Distribution
A 99-page 1947 State Department report discovered in the NOAA Central Library summarized sixty maprelated regulations issued by the German government between July 1934 and June 1944. Although the Third Reich pursued cartographic unification and uniformity more vigorously than earlier central governments, regional diversity and the distractions of a multi-front war hindered attempts to standardi...
متن کامل