Propaganda and the Ghetto

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What’s Going On Here? 

First Glance – Deeper Meaning

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Germany, 1936

Illustration from anantisemitic children's

primer. The sign reads

"Jews are not wanted

here." Germany, 1936.

http://www.ushmm.org/wl

c/en/media_ph.php?Medi

aId=605 

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What Do You See?

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1942

Nazi propaganda oftenportrayed Jews as engaged

in a conspiracy to provoke

war. Here, a stereotyped

Jew conspires behind the

scenes to control the Alliedpowers, represented by

the British, American, and

Soviet flags. The caption

reads, "Behind the enemy

powers: the Jew." Circa

1942.

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What Do You See?

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“The Poisonous

Mushroom”, 1938 

A children's’ book thatportrayed Jews as a

dangerous fungus that

spread.

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What Do You See?

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Jews are a Disease, 1941

An antisemitic posterpublished in Poland in

March 1941. The caption

reads, "Jews are lice; They

cause typhus." This

German-published posterwas intended to instill fear

of Jews among Christian

Poles.

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How cartoons become discrimination:

• So how do we go from cartoons against

people to attempting to destroy another

culture and completely wipe it away from the

history books?

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Ghetto

• Not the kind most people think of today… • “During World War II, ghettos were city districts (often

enclosed) in which the Germans concentrated themunicipal and sometimes regional Jewish population

and forced them to live under miserable conditions.Ghettos isolated Jews by separating Jewishcommunities from the non-Jewish population and fromother Jewish communities. The Germans established atleast 1,000 ghettos in German-occupied and annexed

Poland and the Soviet Union alone. Germanoccupation authorities established the first ghetto inPoland in October 1939.” 

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What a ghetto might look like:

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Life in the ghetto

The picture on the right shows how ghettos

were sealed off from the rest of a city by walls

up to ten feet high.

Nazis didn’t want Jews coming into contact with

the rest of a city or town.

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What’s for Lunch? 

How many Taco Bell tacos could you eat?

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How much are you allowed to eat?

If you kept your hand up

past 2 tacos, then you

would be very hungry in

a ghetto where peoplewere sometimes limited

to 300 calories a day.

That is about 1 ½ Taco Bell

tacos or 4 donettes ortwo cans of Coke.

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Not just Pictures

• http://www.ushmm.org/propaganda/exhibit.html#/themes/deceiving-the-public/page3/ 

A short clip from propaganda films being staged

• http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/pro

pchil.html An article addressing how children were targeted with

propaganda

• http://www.ushmm.org/propaganda/ 

Online Database from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum

• http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005424 

Ghetto Article/Map