Friday, 17 February 2012
Nazis Propaganda Write Up
Propaganda, to my understanding, is a single-way communication. In English it is often means to use it politically to alter the cognition towards the target group or individual of public to make certain group or individual benefit. In my mind, no matter in what form, propaganda dosen't always includes fairly information; in fact, the publisher of propaganda posts contains missed, selective and even faked information inside. This image, is an anti-Semitism poster published in March 1941 in Poland by a Nazi supporter describing the Jews as "lice".
In this image, the whole background is covered by complete blackness. At the center of the poster, there is a huge lice crawling over a man's face, each of them occupied at least 1/4 of the image. The lice is big and fat while the face looks skinny and it's no more than skin around bones. There are red spots in the lice's abdomen and it's legs spread wildly all on the face and the face looks exhausted and it's smiling ghost-like with broken teeth, long mustaches and a black eye. There're a sentence on the edge of the picture: ZYDZI WSZY, TYFUS PLAMISTY, if translated in English that means "Jews are lice, they cause typhus."
I think the poster means that the Jews in the Germany are the tumors in the society; the Jews take all the jobs and food away and let Germany itself become weaker and weaker; the Jews should be removed. The message the creator of this piece wishes to cause fear to Jews in the people, the author of the poster intends to let the German citizens realized that the Jews are the harmful “lice” to the Germany’s society, they suck the blood out of the Germans and causes damage to them while the Germans are still and treat them like friends. In the poster the lice (Jews) crawls on the man (Germany)’s face and sucks the blood (jobs and money and food) out of the man but the man is still laughing. This poster and its message will alter the image Jews seems to the Germans and will spread fear of Jews among the Germany citizens. The poster compared the Jews to lice and Germany to the skinny face, any German who read it will develop hatred to Jews. The Germans will be scared of Jews and will not socialize with them which will cause the Jews being separated (the 5th step of genocide: Polarization). The Germans will become the opposition of Jews and the from all the points the Jews are going to be gradually wiped out like no jobs for Jews, no settlement for Jews, limit of freedom to Jews, etc.
Yes, the poster lied to the audience to express its message. In the drawing, the Jews are described as parasitic lice sucking German’s jobs and food, but in fact, the Jews didn’t not rob any jobs or food, they had earned them by their own power, and additionally, the Jews had provided great contribute to Germany, the Jews helped the German greatly on astronomy, technology, medicines…etc. In my opinion, the image defiantly expresses a negative message about how “bad” and “filthy” Jews are but they are really not!
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