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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Nazi Propaganda"”.
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The effectiveness of Nazi propaganda during World War II
<p>This thesis examines Nazi propaganda’s overall effectiveness during Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930s through the end of World War II in 1945. Historians have had mixed opinions of the overall potency of the propaganda. The questions in consideration are why Nazi propaganda received so …
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The surface image and ulterior psyches: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore's anti-Nazi propaganda
… Bay on the Isle of Jersey in anticipation of Nazi occupation of Paris. By 1940, the Isle itself became an occupied territory, and as queer Jewish artists, Cahun and Moore found themselves in danger yet again. Despite having the option to flee, they decided to remain on the Isle. From 1940–1944 …
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Spark Without Flame: The German Library of Information A Nazi Propaganda Agency in the United States, 1936-1941
<p>Most studies of Nazi propaganda have focused on main events inside Germany. This thesis proposes to examine German efforts in the United States in the years before American entry into the Second World War. This will be done by examining one Nazi agency: the German Library of Information which …
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Terezin variations : codes, messages, and the summer of 1944
… camp in the summer of 1944, when the Nazi propaganda campaign promoting Terezín as a haven for the Jews of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was at its height. Somewhat unexpectedly all of these pieces make use of some kind of variation technique, employing it in different ways …
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The Wehrmarcht: Soldiers and Germans During the Second World War
… under the command of military officials of the Nazi state, vowed to destroy Bolshevism and Jewish populations. By examining letters from soldiers to family members on the German home front as well as letters from families to the men on the front lines, a better understanding of the motivations …
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Background music : National Socialist propaganda and the reinforcement of German virtue
… thesis examines the implementation of official propaganda issued by the National Socialist regime during the years following Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933 up through 1945. By analyzing two very different mediums of propaganda used by the National Socialist party, film and advertising in a …
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The foundations of antisemitism in South Africa : images of the Jew c.1870-1930
… as essentially an alien phenomenon, a product of Nazi propaganda at a time of great social and economic trauma. This thesis argues that antisemitism was an important element in South African society long before 1930 and that the roots of anti-Jewish outbursts in the 1930s and early 1940s are to be …
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Germany and the Bund movement in the United States, 1923-1938
<p>Recent studies of the Bund have emphasized the movement's chronological development and its relationship with Germany. Although this dissertation will utilize the chronological approach, it will also examine Germany's evolving views concerning Americans of German ancestry. For example, was the …
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THE JEWISH ANIMAL IN POST-HOLOCAUST JEWISH AMERICAN POETRY
By the time anti-Jewish Nazi propaganda was widely analogizing Jews to rodents and other nonhuman animals in need of extermination, the accusation that Jewish people might be subhuman, or nonhuman, had been informing non-Jewish perceptions of the Jewish people for hundreds of years. As Jay Geller …
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Defense d'afficher : the wartime art of Jean Lurç̧at and Jean Dubuffet
… the usurpation of the walls by Vichy and Nazi propaganda, and the defamiliarization of the social environment caused by dislocation and occupation, how and what could an artist -- one who wished to avoid cultural collaboration -- produce? This thesis examines the works of two artists who, …
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REEL NAZIS a propaganda history
This thesis film is an overview of Nazi Germany, primarily told through the use of their own propaganda images, and structured in such a way as to make the viewer question what they think they know about the past, present, and future. This paper is a discussion of the process that went into making …
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Leopold von Mildenstein and the Jewish Question
… of the SD, the intelligence service of the Nazi SS and his attempt to solve the so-called Jewish Question through Zionist emigration in prewar Nazi Germany. Mildenstein’s Zionism was contingent upon the German Zionist movement’s success in effecting Jewish emigration to Palestine. When …