During this time, during World War Two, the Holocaust, Germany was full of Nazis attempting to “protect” the German race. Persecution and subjective judgment towards the Jews based on Germany’s leader, Hitler’s ideas continued to permeate throughout his land. No one could stop him, and why would anyone try to? A person of that kind of power is very controlling, manipulative and is unable to do it all by the honest truth. One cleverly disguises and skews the truth, or in other words, uses propaganda.
One famous propaganda poster that became somewhat famous closer to the end of the war was one that had red letters at the top, that in German said, “Mothers! Fight for your children!” What is interesting about this poster is the fact that the mother depicted in the picture has a david’s star on her arm, the symbol a Nazi would put on any Jew to make it easier to distinguish between a German and a Jew, while she is the mother of four children who do not have the symbol on them. This either means that the children were not old enough to be forced by the “government officials” to wear a David star patch on their clothes or marked on their arm, or that they were not Jewish. The latter does not seem like the most plausible. The mother of the children displays a sort of terrified emotion. What she sees is unknown to the viewer, but it represents the fear that Jews had of the Nazi Germans, or any Germans in general at this
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This poster is not only trying to persuade the mothers to “fight” for their children like men fought for what they thought was the right thing to do. It embellishes the idea of war. If women are told to fight for their children, which they would do no matter what the cost, then it cannot be that bad. It dulls the reality of what this witch hunt, or war, was actually doing. Seeking out people who were different and doing everything in their power to do