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4.2 The Art of Propaganda
l Nazis termed mass killings as special treatment, the final solution (for the Jews), euthanasia
(for the disabled), selection and disinfections.
l ‘Evacuation’ meant deporting people to gas chambers. Gas chambers were labelled as
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‘‘disinfection -areas’, and looked like bathrooms equipped with fake shower heads. Nazi
ideas were spread through visual images, films, radio, posters, catchy slogans and leaflets.
l Orthodox Jews were stereotyped and marked and were referred to as vermin, rats and
pests. The Nazis made equal efforts to appeal to all the different sections of the population.
l They sought to win their support by suggesting that Nazis alone could solve all their
problems.

Source E (Page no. 69)
In an address to women at the Nuremberg Party Rally, 8 September 1934, Hitler said: We do
not consider it correct for the woman to interfere in the world of the man, in his main sphere.
We consider it natural that these two worlds remain distinct…What the man gives in courage
on the battlefield, the woman gives in eternal self-sacrifice, in eternal pain and suffering. Every
child that women bring to the world is a battle, a battle waged for the existence of her people.

Source F (Page no. 69)
Hitler at the Nuremberg Party Rally, 8 September 1934, also said: ‘The woman is the most
stable element in the preservation of a folk…she has the most unerring sense of everything that
is important to not let a race disappear because it is her children who would be affected by all
this suffering in the first place…That is why we have integrated the woman in the struggle of
the racial community just as nature and providence have determined so.’

Activity
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Q. How would you have reacted to Hilter’s ideas if you were:
 A Jewish woman

 A non-Jewish German woman
Ans. A. If I was a Jewish woman, I would have condemned these ideas as they were against
our community and also against the well being of women.
B. If I was a non-Jewish German woman, I would have condemned them as being too
restrictive to women’s roles in life. Also, I do not agree with Hitler about the idea of
Jews being ‘undesirable’, as I have a number of Jewish women as my friends and I find
them friendly, just like other human beings. They should not be called ‘undesirables’.
This is against the humanity.

Q. What do you think this poster is trying to depict?
Ans. The poster is making fun of Jews, by depicting that they are only interested in making

money, by whatever means at their disposal. It is trying to show that Jews are greedy.
The fatness of the man indicates that the poster maker felt that the greed of Jews is
imprudent.

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