Nazi Propaganda
Historical Perspective
1915 World War I & the
Birth of Modern Propaganda
Timeline
1931 “National Socialism
Germany’s Future!”
Timeline
1932 Campaign poster
“Work, Freedom, Bread!”
Timeline
1932 Election Poster:
“Men! Women!
Millions of Men without Work.
Millions of Children without a
Future.
Save the German family.”
Timeline
1934 Poster “Yes! Fuhrer, We Will
Follow You!”
Timeline
Advertisement for “people’s
receiver”
ca. 1936
” Every National Comrade a
Radio Listener!”
Timeline
1937 Poster “You, Too, Belong to
the Fuhrer.”
Timeline
1938 Poster advertising “The God
of the Stadium”
Timeline
1938 Poster of ballot
marked “Yes !”
Reunification of Austria
Timeline
1939 Poster “Victory over
Versailles”
Documentary Film
Timeline
1940 Der Sturmer March 1940
Timeline
Poster “Behind the Enemy
Powers: the Jew”
ca. 1942
Timeline
1943 Poster “Victory or
Bolshevism”
Timeline
1944 Theresienstadt ghetto drawing
(Red Cross visit 1944)
Timeline
1945: Eisenhower at Ohrdruf
“The things I saw beggar
description...The visual
evidence and the verbal
testimony of starvation,
cruelty and bestiality
were...overpowering...I
made the visit
deliberately in order to
be in a position to give
first-hand evidence of
these things if ever, in
the future, there
develops a tendency to
charge these allegations
merely to ‘propaganda.’”
Timeline
1946
Julius Streicher
on trial at Nuremberg
Timeline
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Description
World War I & the Birth of Modern Propaganda: poster
“Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great War?” (Great Britain)
“National Socialism Germany’s Future!”
Campaign poster “Work, Freedom, Bread!”
Election poster “Millions of Men without Work. Millions of
Children without a Future. Save the German family.”
Advertisement for “people’s receiver”: “Every National
Comrade a Radio Listener!”
Poster “Yes! Fuhrer, We Will Follow You!”
Poster “You, Too, Belong to the Fuhrer.”
Poster advertising “The God of the Stadium”
Poster of ballot marked “Yes!” (reunification of Austria)
Poster “Victory over Versailles” documentary film
Poster “Behind the Enemy Powers: the Jew”
Theresienstadt ghetto drawing (Red Cross visit 1944)
Poster “Victory or Bolshevism”
Der Sturmer March 1940
Dwight D. Eisenhower at Ohrdruf
Julius Streicher at Nuremberg
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Bachrach, Susan and Luckert, Steven. State of Deception: The Power
of Nazi Propaganda. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:
Washington, DC. 2009.