Why posters are helpful
At elections there was a secret ballot, so we can never be absolutely sure how people voted
We have hundreds of autobiographies explaining why some voted Nazi, but are these TYPICAL and RELIABLE?
We need to compare this evidence with numerous autobiographies, speeches, leaflets etc. But these posters do broadly indicate who the Nazis were trying to attract and how, (if we can read them accurately).
Marks
3 marks if you can work it out without a written clue2 if you can work it out with a written clue1 if you can partly work it out, without a written clue.
First team to get 15 marks wins!
Slide 2
• “Two million dead. Did they die in vain? Never! Front soldiers! Adolf Hitler is showing you the way!”
Slide 4
Notice the sword through the Jewish star of David. The red words coming from the snake are: usury, Versailles, unemployment, war guilt lie, Marxism, Bolshevism, lies and betrayal, inflation, Locarno, Dawes Pact, Young Plan, corruption, Barmat, Kutistker, Sklarek [the last three Jews involved in major financial scandals], prostitution, terror, civil war.
Slide 6
The text: “5,600,000 unemployed demand work! The need of the unemployed is the need of the whole people! On Friday evening, 15 January 1932, at 8 p.m., there will be sixteen mass meetings for the unemployed.”