The Poisonous Mushroom: Nazi/German

In the early years of a Nazi controlled Germany, propaganda played an enormous role influencing the nation. The ideology behind Nazi’s investing substantial amounts of time and money into their propaganda was, they knew full well it was the most effective way to sway a nations opinion in their favour. Nazi messages were conveyed through different ways of propaganda such as; posters, music, poems, films, radicalistic events, public speeches, newspapers. All these forms of media aimed to reach as many people as they possibly could with their message.

Source 1 - The Poisonous Mushroom: A children's book pub. in 1938 in Germany by Ernst Hiemer

The Poisonous Mushroom was a book created by a Nazi/German author named Ernst Hiemer. The aim of this book was to give German children a negative view towards the Jews. The book depicts Jews as Poisonous Mushrooms to give children

Joseph Goebbels was Hitler’s minister of propaganda and public information, and in this film is shown speaking to mainly German youth about his plans to change the education system. This speech was given outside the Opera house of Berlin. This source is useful for a historian who would prefer to study a visual of how intense Nazi propaganda pushes were and genuine footage of what happened. The source shows perfectly how effective Nazi radicals speeches were with the entire crowd shown chanting in support of Goebbels propositions. Furthermore, the source portrays an insightful visual of Goebbels giving a speech in a way that the books can be seen burning, people can be seen chanting in support of his message, and that the crowd consists of mostly youth. This source is feasible to the topic of Nazi propaganda because it’s a clear visual source of the extent Nazi propagandists carried out in conveying their