PropagandaWhat is propaganda?

Propaganda:“information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or

point of view.”

It is meant to lead the viewer to a certain opinion.

Adolf Hitler

“All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed

will understand it… Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most

wretched sort of life as paradise.”

The Ducktatorshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKOEMqDupE0

1. What information is being promoted in this video?

2. Who’s point of view/political cause is represented?

3. Is it biased or misleading? If so, how?

American Propaganda 1942

Japanese Canadians ● 1941: 23 000 Canadians of Japanese ancestry, mostly

in BC● more than 50% born in Canada - no ties to Japan● worked as fishers, farmers, business owners, etc.● 1930s: anti-Japanese feelings in Canada● 1940s: concerns over Japanese & Chinese fighting

○ some Canadians demand that Canadian gov not allow Japanese or Chinese Canadians in the army

Japanese Internment Camps● 1941: after attack on Pearl Harbor, discrimination rises

Gov legally classifies Japanese Canadians as enemies (War Measures Act)● Jan. 16, 1942: Can gov issues order banning Japanese Canadians from the

west coastgov takes their fishing boats, cars, trucks, weapons, cameras, and radios

● Feb. 26, 1942: gov issues order- all Japanese Canadians forced to move to internment camps in BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan○ families were split up: men at one camp, women and children at

another○ gov sold their belongings, claimed to use the money to pay for the

internment

Women● 1941: shortage of workers● gov recruits women● before war: only 21% of women worked outside home● at first: only young, unmarried women● 1943: all women (married, mothers) recruited● women became welders, machinists, bus drivers,

munition workers, ran farms, etc. ● made more $ than before, yet less than men for same

jobs

"Just as it is often hard to tell a toadstool from an edible

mushroom, so too it is often very hard to recognize the Jew as a

swindler and criminal..."

Nazi Propaganda

Nazi PropagandaThe Poisonous Mushroom (Der Giftpilz), 1938

Ernst Hiemer

1. Why did the author, Ernst Hiemer, choose a mushroom/toadstool as his main metaphor?

2. How does he characterize the Jewish people ?

3. What role does he give the German people?

4. Why did he target young children as the audience for his book?