Propaganda In The 1930's: Christological Depictions Of Nazi Germany

This German artwork from the 1930’s is one the most famous depictions of Nazi propaganda in its time. This source is useful for a historian investigating the period of Nazi Germany as it is a visual representation that depicts many of the ideals around Hitler in a time where Nazi Germany was at its peak of power. Further, this propaganda that presents one German view of Hitler, by presenting an underlying message and bias with this Christological representation of Hitler, a Historian can gain an understand of some of the views in the 1930’s and what type of influence Hitler had over Germany and its people. This source limits a Historian’s investigation as this example of propaganda omits an exaggeration, it misleads its viewers to the comparison …show more content…
“Stukas Attack/Attack of the Stukas” 1940 German Board Game.
This source is a German Board Game titled “Stukas Attack”, produced in the 1940’s, a form of propaganda marketed at families and children. This source is useful for a historian investigating the period of Nazi Germany as it is a visual representation of their motives through the use of propaganda. The images displayed on the board game is indicative of the time it was produced, with the images of bombs and crashing planes and the text “Attack of the Stukas”. A historian can infer war was prominent in Germany at this time and who they were fighting (The Stukas) as well as identify the type of messages Nazi Germany were sending to its people and the kind of society they were trying to create, one that normalised war. This source limits a Historian’s investigation as this type of propaganda doesn’t directly state any form of bias and the message it echoes is not clear which could lead to misinterpretation of the intention of the source. This source omits some quintessential precepts of Nazi ideals and motives. This game is marketed towards children so the intent of this form of propaganda was to start desensitising German people of war and violence from an early age. This source enforces the Nazi Germany ideal of using youth to feed its armies and a way to get Hitler’s ideology into the family unit and further its hateful ideologies as totalitarian state. The choosing of this source of propaganda is justified as …show more content…
This source is useful for a historian investigating the period of Nazi Germany as this speech is said by Hitler. This speech echo’s his viewpoint and is an example of how he communicated to the German population and the type of language he used. The bias omitted through his speech determines the situation of Germany at the time, as Hitler states ‘The army of unemployed begins to grow… five million, six million, seven million’. This speech is useful to historians as it recounts the hardships faced by Germany in 1933 and the ways Hitler would use them to gain power. This source limits a Historian’s investigation as this type of propaganda is created for Hitler’s audience and for the purpose of persuading the German people to see him as a great leader. When Hitler states ‘They destroyed what they could in fourteen years of work… and now we witness how class upon class are collapsing’, with his use of emotive words and exaggeration, a historian is limited to how truthful the source is. The quintessential precepts of Nazi ideals that are implicit in this speech include their hatred toward democracy. as Hitler states to eradicate democracy as ‘We will combat the manifestations of our parliamentary and democratic system’. This source also raises their hatred ideals of “survival of the fittest” and