Florian Herrmann
‘WE can win this war’
It should say that no single person, but all people from one country together can win this war, and even the smallest and youngest person can help. You can see what each person is saying like the one on the left: ‘ I can’t, You can’t but the two persons together say: ‘ WE can’. Besides that, it should convince people that Germany has the most power and they, if everybody is helping can win the war. And that’s what the poster tries the people to do, help! The idea with the baby should make clear that everybody can help to win this war, even if it is only the smallest thing what is to do. The techniques I used are: Flag waving; in the upper left corner you can see the German flag. Bandwagon; The text in the speech bubbles should effect that people support this message and stick together in this war. Fear; the text says clear WE can, means that Germany is very sure and positive that they are going to win this war, besides this has the person on the left a knife in his hand
Germany had not had the biggest army in this war and a lot of enemies. The size of the German army in 1914 was about 4,5 million. Besides that had Germany Austria-Hungary with 3 million men on their side. But they also had a lot of enemies like Russia with 6,5 million, Italy with 1,2 million, France with 4 million and Britain with an army of 975,000 and an huge army against them. So they needed every help they could get. Even if it’s only little children who help to save food or other little things. And another point that this poster tries to explain is that everybody needs to stick together to win this war. They wanted to get more power and get bigger and that’s why they need everybody to help to reach this aim.
I think that people think completely different of things because of propaganda. Everywhere you go even at home, at the tv or pc there is propaganda. Even if you don’t focus for each poster your sub conscious still notice it save it in your brain and influence you in your next choice. E.g choosing what drink you want to drink. The pros of propaganda are: make people think about it, and make people do something because they saw it. Helps to sell products. Make people think in a different way of things. Cons of propaganda are: Change mind of people. Takes away the free will of people. Make people think about things in a different way, maybe a less good way than they would think about it without propaganda
I think I’m influenced by propaganda very much. Like I said before is propaganda everywhere and it is supposed to influence us even if we’re not focusing. ( Sub conscious). I think I really think different or want a product more than an other after I watched a propaganda spot or if I have seen a poster from one specific company. I also think that I can’t really do anything against it or anybody to avoid this influence of propaganda because the big factory’s have too much money and power that anybody could change, stop or forbid this ‘ propaganda- world’.
Florian Herrmann
Propaganda Reflection Prompts
Reflection Writing
1. Introduction
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What you can see here, is a propaganda poster from 1914. This draft should support the German army and show how strong Germany compared to the other country’s is. I put the German flag from 1914 in the background and completed it with the colors and the cross from the German flag in the upper left corner. In the circle in the middle-left I put the German eagle. In the lower-right corner I took all the flags from the other country’s who fought in this war behind bars to make clear that Germany has the control about these country’s and this war. The persons in the lower-left- and upper-right corner take care of the “people in prison”. All in all this poster should effect a powerful feeling in Germany and a fear feeling in the other country’s and show that Germany has the control in this war.
2. Process
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The revisions that I made are that I changed my drafts completely. I have three complete different drafts. Critiques from my analysis that helped me to make my poster better were to write down a comparison of the size of the army’s of the country’s and to write down who the enemies of the German army were. Besides that it helped to write down why Germany was fighting in this war. Critiques from my poster that helped were to change the idea with the many speech-bubbles because they were confusing to the audience. An other thing I changed on my poster was the German flag. I drew the German flag in the current colors on a poster that was for the first world-war.
3. Product
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I feel very good about this piece of work. I think I did very well. I tried to include every part that is needed to express the message of this poster. I really like the idea with the big German flag and the little flags of the other country’s behind the bars. Besides that I like the huge German flag in the background what really shows clearly what country this poster is from. I did enjoy about this work the creative drawing and the time we had for this. We had a lot of time to think about our ideas and how we want to express them.
4. Reflection
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The main ideas and lessons I have taken away from working on this project are to make clear what I want from my audience in a poster and how I can express my ideas the best way. Besides that I understand now how I can see from what country a specific poster is.
5. Extension
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I think I wouldn’t do anything different. I think after three different drafts I finally got one that is really good. I would maybe change the size of the flag in the upper-left corner but that’s all. I really like this poster and I think it expresses really good what this poster wants from his audience.
Holocaust Project
Connection between the two maps:
In our project my partner and I have two maps, and my map shows the level of Anti-Semitism and the treatment of the Jews during the Holocaust in comparison my partner’s map shows the level of Anti-Semitism currently.
China:
The Jews in Asia weren’t really followed or not accepted. China was open for immigration. They were accepted as people but they didn’t have the freedom a “normal” person had. Like the Jews were controlled during acting out their daily activities. So to summarize, the Asian governments were careful with the immigrants and how the saw the Jews was compared of anti-Semitism, racism, nationalism and fear of foreign conspiracy.
This is the first stage of genocide, Classification. The pubic was divided in us and them, the Jews.
Spain:
The Jewish race was expelled from Spain because the Spanish government shared the same opinion with Hitler that the Jews weren’t worth a human but not as racist, they just expelled them and not killed the right of way. Most Jews were trying to reach safety and try to get to another county before they got killed. A lot of the Jews who tried to reach safety ended up in Turkey. Some died on the way, and some didn’t try to get out of the country, got killed and were used for experiences.
For example, the government made a law and published it: “All Jews should be driven out of the kingdom and its territories.” This happened before the Holocaust started to avoid this problem later on in the actual war.
I would say this is the 6th and 7th stage of genocide, Preparation and Extermination, because the victims were hunted, separated and used for experiments but also killed if they didn’t flee.
Poland:
First, there wasn’t even a genocide in Poland until Hitler came to power and build the death camp in Poland and spread the Anti-Semitism. In the death camps the the prisoners were told that they are there to be cleaned and disinfected for their new assignment, but the result of the “cleaning action” to was 10,000 killed Jews in 24 hours. There were actually many Jews in Poland because they got treated well there. As an example it says in a text from a Journalist:” Jews were treated well under the rule of Boleslaw Pobozny, Poland was home to the largest Jewish population in Europe and served as the center for the Jewish Culture.” .But as soon as Hitler’s army came to Poland this situation changed and the Jews were hated and killed. The propaganda and the fear that was spread by the German army made the Jewish population believe that The Jews weren’t good enough to live. And the stage of Genocide changed from 0 to 7 and most the Jews were killed.
North Africa, Namibia and Tanzania:
In Africa the Jews were under the control of the Germans and the German killed the Jews and made the African army kill them. Before the German army even came into Africa the Jews weren’t any different from any other race or religion.
But the German laws changed the whole situation in Africa and the Stage of genocide increased to 7. The German army brought most of the weapons and took over the law and killed the Jewish population in the parts of Africa where the Germans had colonies like Namibia or Tanzania.
United States of America:
“Even before the Holocaust, Jewish people -- in particular European Jews -- had to flee their homelands due to discrimination and anti-Semitism.” This shows how the anti-Semitism was already published before the Holocaust started.
In this Genocide the Stages of Genocide raised from one through 3, Dehumanization.
Germany:
Now, in Germany was the killing of Jews the worst. And the level of Anti-Semitism was the highest in this country.
Emigration took a sudden leap when the Nazis, under Hitler’s leadership, began to actively restrict Jews in Germany and then in the German-occupied neighboring countries.
In Hitler’s speech Hitler says:” Nature is cruel; therefore we are also entitled to be cruel. When I send the flower of German youth into the steel hail of the next war without feeling the slightest regret over the precious German blood that is being spilled, should I not also have the right to eliminate millions of an inferior race that multiplies like vermin?”
And After that he says:” This is a page of glory in our history which has never been written and is never to be written.”
These two quotes show how proud the Germans were about killing the Jews and how they saw the “vermin”.
Another example is from a Holocaust survivor who says in her speech:” I'm here tonight not because I need to hear any more about persecution and torture of innocent victims of totalitarian regimes. I have lived through enough of this directly and indirectly that I frankly would rather have nothing more to do with it. But I cannot, either, NOT stand up in support of the victims of such torture and persecution.”
All these quotes show how cruel, especially the treatment of the Jews was and that most of them didn’t have a chance to avoid being killed or getting any help from other countries or people who lived just next to them but didn’t care about them.
With all of these examples from above I want to show how spread the idea of the Anti-Semitism was that nobody said something against this killing or did something about it.
The Changes of the Holocaust
Genocide Overview:
As our project we chose the Holocaust that took place in the time while Adolf Hitler was in power from 1933 to 1945. But also, even after Hitler killed himself the Jews still had to work in work camps and got treated different and the public saw them different than other people. First, about the Holocaust. The Holocaust started before the second World War. As soon as Hitler came to power he started hunting the Jews, brought propaganda up to convince the people in Germany, and all over the world, that the Jews weren't worth the same like they do, they aren’t human. So that they wouldn’t resist to help them or think that what he and his army were doing was wrong and wouldn’t help them. After Hitler convinced the public that what he’s doing is right, he started to assemble the Jews and sent them to death camps. With the help of the public his killing went easier because the “normal” people pointed the Jews out and tried to avoid them because they really thought they were better than them.
That’s what we focused on in our project Anti-Semitism the hate or disrespect to other ethnic groups. We looked up what role anti-Semitism, plays in several different countries all over the world, in the 1940’s and today.
Project Explanation
My project research gave me a more detailed view into my topic. From the different sources and the different quotes I got see the different views from different countries and people. Like Adolf Hitler said in his speech:" Nature is cruel; therefore we are also entitled to be cruel. When I send the flower of German youth into the steel hail of the next war without feeling the slightest regret over the precious German blood that is being spilled, should I not also have the right to eliminate a millions of an inferior race that multiplies like vermin?” This shows how he saw the Jewish race, in Germany, but there are also other opinions about Jews, like in Japan the Jews weren’t really followed but they controlled a little.
“Nobody survived. You don’t have one survivor from Belzec. You have survivors from Auschwitz, from Treblinka, because it was also a working camp. But Belzek wasn’t a working camp. It was strictly a death camp, and nobody survived.”
A Holocaust survivor wrote her story “ If somebody would have given us a chance”. This shows how horrible this time was, and how the Jews were treated, this gives us, for our project a detailed view how the world saw the Jews and we can bring this information into our project.
I want the viewer to see how the Jews got treated during the Holocaust on today in Germany and in other countries all over the world. In our project we have two maps, and on the one map we wrote, how the treatment of the Jewish race was in the 1940’s in places all over the world and on the other map we wrote down how they are treated in today.
And I want to show with the project, how many different ways the Jews got treated in different countries and why it was that way. Like in all countries where Hitler had influence the Jews were followed and killed and not respected in the public.
The Artist
I’m Florian Herrmann and I’m from Germany. I think the fact that I’m German is relevant because the holocaust began and took place the most in Germany and infected our laws and we also already know a lot about the holocaust before we even have it in school. So I already knew a lot about my project, and I researched some facts and brought my knowledge then into our project. What I like the most about my project that we found out about the treatment of Jews during the holocaust and the anti-Semitism in the world back in the 1940’s and today.
Sources:
1. Florida Center for Instructional Technology. "Statements by Leading Nazis on the "Jewish Question "" Florida Center for Instructional Technology. 2005. Web. 02 Dec. 2010. http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/resource/document/DocJewQn.html
2. John Menszer. "Audio Gallery - "If Somebody Would Have Given Us a Chance"" Holocaust Survivors. 1999. Web. 02 Dec. 2010. http://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/data.show.php?di=record&da=recordings&ke=16
3. Florida Center for Instructional Technology. "Auschwitz." Florida Center for Instructional Technology. 2005. Web. 02 Dec. 2010. http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/resource/document/DocAusch.htm
4. Jewish Virtual Library. "Japan and the Jews." Jewish Virtual Library - Homepage. 2010. Web. 02 Dec. 2010. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/japan.html
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Project Reflection
In our Project we started out with discussing poetry in class. What poetry it, when it is used, how to interpret it and what is used in Poetry. After that we began looking at different poem in class with everybody and interpreted it, tried to figure what kind of devices are used in the poem and what the message of the poem is, which is not that easy because there are many different opinions and none of them is really completely wrong. Later in the project after we learned how other people write poems, how to look at poems and what is used in poems to create mutes and tones we started writing our own poems.
This takes a long time. First of all you’re are totally on your own, not 20 other people in your class that could help you. And you begin writing about one topic, and another and can’t really decide if you like it, and when you finally found a poem that you like you still have to revise it. After a couple weeks when everybody had their poems sort of together and we came closer to the exhibition we started creating something or thinking about a style how we want to present our poem. Also we created a different atmosphere in our classrooms to make it more comfortable and create a poetry café.
Talking about the different styles other authors used and having to use them too makes you see more things that you could use to create the mude you want in your poem. Besides that I learned how to use language to make certain things sound better. Also you can see other people perform and see them using their voice to communicate a message in a special way which is really effective. Slide shows or other visual performances are also really effective and support the message with pictures or a moving text. So all in all there are many different ways to support your poem and each of them is helping.
But I think especially a live performance is so effective and powerful because you can communicate your poem the way you originally wanted. I think the voice and the way you perform is the most powerful way you could perform a poem but also at the same time really hard because you have to memorize the poem, find the right way you want to perform it and it is also nerve racking because of all the people that watch you.
This takes a long time. First of all you’re are totally on your own, not 20 other people in your class that could help you. And you begin writing about one topic, and another and can’t really decide if you like it, and when you finally found a poem that you like you still have to revise it. After a couple weeks when everybody had their poems sort of together and we came closer to the exhibition we started creating something or thinking about a style how we want to present our poem. Also we created a different atmosphere in our classrooms to make it more comfortable and create a poetry café.
Talking about the different styles other authors used and having to use them too makes you see more things that you could use to create the mude you want in your poem. Besides that I learned how to use language to make certain things sound better. Also you can see other people perform and see them using their voice to communicate a message in a special way which is really effective. Slide shows or other visual performances are also really effective and support the message with pictures or a moving text. So all in all there are many different ways to support your poem and each of them is helping.
But I think especially a live performance is so effective and powerful because you can communicate your poem the way you originally wanted. I think the voice and the way you perform is the most powerful way you could perform a poem but also at the same time really hard because you have to memorize the poem, find the right way you want to perform it and it is also nerve racking because of all the people that watch you.
