WWII- PROPAGANDA

Nazi propaganda features

1. Normalization or movement of the Overton window.

   • It is a propaganda technique in which something absolutely unacceptable is gradually integrated into social perception and in the end is perceived as possible and even normal.

2. Asymmetric definitions

   • The manipulation of the meanings of key words to affect the conversation.

   • Euphemisms activate positive or negative mental frameworks. A dysphemism is an expression with connotations that are derogatory either about the subject matter or to the audience.

   • In the Second World War, when the Germans wanted to boost the morale of the troops and, above all, of the rear – where the population lived worse due to hunger and the leave of many people to the fight -words such as, for example, "difficulty in advancing" (which gives rise to a mental framework that is associated with the negative, with the cost) and used "momentary pause in the advance" (which activates more pleasant mental frames in the receiver

   • EUPHEMISIMS BY HITLER REGIME

     • Actions: Lynchings of Jews. -Non-spice: Inappropriate. -Elastic advance on the rear: Withdrawal of troops from the front lines. -Labor camps: Concentration camps / extermination camps. -Characteristically positive: Perfect Nazi. -Relocation centers: Concentration camps / extermination camps. -Crisis: Defeat in battle. Harvest Festival: Mass murder of Jews in Poland -Charitable Foundation for Institutional Care: Entity in charge of executing the "euthanasia" program

   • DISPHEMISIMS BY HITLER REGIME

     • House of Jews: House in which at least one Jew lived. -Breeding: Son of a Jew. Kremlin Jews: Trotsky, Stalin etc.

3. Simbolisim

   • Associated to a mitology

4. Using foreign correspondents

Propaganda and counterpropaganda wwii

1. Radio and Black propaganda

   • first, it was used by the germans, but the allies soon were better

White propaganda: Clearly identified source. Most of the information was true. Meant to encourage people. Most Radio Propaganda was white propaganda at first.

Grey propaganda: Not clearly identified source, listener has to guess who is speaking. Meant to embarrass enemy or conceal loses.

Black propaganda: Source is given, but it is not accurate. Usually a group pretending to be the enemy. This was used to attack the opponents of the group giving false information meant to embarrass.

2. Explicit sexual propaganda and atrocity sexual propaganda

3. music and cartoons