Nazi propaganda poster
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 33.130 inches (84.15 cm) | Width: 47.500 inches (120.65 cm)
Creator(s)
- Reichspropagandaleitung der N.S.D.A.P. (Issuer)
- W. Wächter (Editor)
- Zentralverlag der NSDAP (Publisher)
Archival History
The poster was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
Scope and Content
The Nazis used propaganda to buttress public support for the war effort, shape public opinion, and reinforce antisemitic ideas. As part of their propaganda campaign, the Nazis created the Word of the Week Series of posters (also referred to as Wandzeitung, or wall newspapers), the first of which was distributed on March 16, 1936. Each week, approximately 125,000 posters were strategically placed in public places and businesses such as: market squares, metro stations, bus stops, payroll offices, hospital waiting rooms, factory cafeterias, schools, hotels, restaurants, post offices, train stations, and street kiosks so that they would be viewed by as many people as possible. Posters were the primary medium for the series, but smaller pamphlets were also produced, which could be plastered on the back of correspondence. The posters used colorful, often derogatory caricatures, and photorealistic images with vibrant language to target the Nazis' early political adversaries, Jews, Communists, and Germany's enemies during the war. The series was discontinued in 1943.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Corporate Bodies
- Central Publishing house of the Nazi Party
- Nazi Party
- Reichspropagandaleitung der N.S.D.A.P.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda--Germany.
- Germany.
- Nazi Propaganda
- Parole der Woche.
- Nazi propaganda--Posters--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Public opinion--Germany.
Genre
- Posters.
- Posters
- Object