Visual Primary Source Analysis - Wartime Propaganda

 

2-3 pages worth of text (don't pad with illustrations!), double-spaced, with reasonable font and margins

 

Using a web search, find a propaganda poster, postcard, or other propaganda document with a large visual component produced during World War II (1939-1945) in a country OTHER THAN THE UNITED STATES. If the poster comes with a caption, it must be in English or in another language you can read, or you must be able to translate it into words you can understand. Be sure that you can tell from the website that the document is from the WWII period and not WWI or the interwar period, and be sure that it is not from the United States.

 

Analyze the visual source just as you would a textual source - explain what this document reveals about the time period it was created. Propaganda sources tend to have pretty clear, simple arguments -- explain what the argument or goal of this document is. Some other questions to answer: What effect is the document meant to have on its wartime audience? (This is NOT necessarily the same as its effect on you, the present-day historian. Put yourself in the place of someone in that country during the war.) How do the visual images and words of this document make the argument? What were some of the assumptions that the creator of this source had - what did he assume about the people who would see this document? How did this piece of propaganda define what the war was about?

 

Finally, connect the source with some aspect of the wartime context covered in the textbook. How does this document illustrate something about the larger context of the war? For example, how does it relate to nationalism or "total war" or collaboration, etc.?

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