Class 4. 9/3 Policies and propaganda

Poster by Felix Albrecht. "Women! Millions of men without work. Millions of children without a future. Save the German family. Vote for Adolf Hitler!"

Engel, The Holocaust, ch. 3, “Hitler, Nazis, Germans, and Jews,” 19–30; doc. 2–3.

Susan Bachrach and Steven Luckert, State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2009), Introduction, 1–12; ch. 1, “Propaganda for Votes and Power, 1919–1933 Download Propaganda for Votes and Power, 1919–1933

,” 13–36. (File contains pages viii–61, including the reading for next class.)

How should we define propaganda? What was the role of propaganda in Nazi strategy?