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What campus are you from?
Daytona Beach
Authors' Class Standing
Aiden Martin, Senior
Lead Presenter's Name
Aiden Martin
Faculty Mentor Name
Elisabeth Hope Murray
Abstract
This paper answers a heretofore unasked question: What role do Nazi propaganda posters play in the broader ideological project of Volksgemeinschaft, particularly regarding the roles of industrial advancement as threatened by the anti-nation? Propaganda posters are used as a lens into how the regime depicted industrialization and technological advancement to support its racial and ideological goals. After the Nazi Party’s rise and consolidation of power, propaganda noticeably started to focus on themes of technological advancements; aviation, radio, and factories symbolizing modern technical advances appear in many posters, projecting Germany as an up-and-coming nation rising out of the Versailles era. This process was conducted by utilizing posters not just as propaganda, but as emotional art, allowing emotions to be a driving force behind Volksgemeinschaft and Nazi Party policy initiatives. Such posters depict images of what the Nazis considered to be valuable workers conducting the task of Nazi industrialization; simultaneously, the people the Nazis considered undesirable were cast out and demonized in Nazi propaganda posters.
Did this research project receive funding support from the Office of Undergraduate Research.
No
Forging Volksgemeinschaft: Industrial and Technological Imagery in Nazi Propaganda Posters
This paper answers a heretofore unasked question: What role do Nazi propaganda posters play in the broader ideological project of Volksgemeinschaft, particularly regarding the roles of industrial advancement as threatened by the anti-nation? Propaganda posters are used as a lens into how the regime depicted industrialization and technological advancement to support its racial and ideological goals. After the Nazi Party’s rise and consolidation of power, propaganda noticeably started to focus on themes of technological advancements; aviation, radio, and factories symbolizing modern technical advances appear in many posters, projecting Germany as an up-and-coming nation rising out of the Versailles era. This process was conducted by utilizing posters not just as propaganda, but as emotional art, allowing emotions to be a driving force behind Volksgemeinschaft and Nazi Party policy initiatives. Such posters depict images of what the Nazis considered to be valuable workers conducting the task of Nazi industrialization; simultaneously, the people the Nazis considered undesirable were cast out and demonized in Nazi propaganda posters.