Nazi Germany propaganda posters: During the war

The Volksturm was the Nazi attempt to call on the last reserves. Those too young or too old for regular military service were called into service. The caption translates as "For freedom and life."

NAZI PROPAGANDA



"The enemy sees your light! Black out!" This in the later stages of the war as Allied aerial bombings increased.



"Mothers! Fight for your children!" It propagated the Nazi goal of encouraging as many births as possible.



Before World War II began, Germans were allowed to listen to foreign radio broadcasts. This was banned once the war began, and by the end of the war people were executed for listing to enemy radio stations. In this poster, probably a Marxist broadcasts from London, Moscow, and other enemy states, while a German listens in the darkness, trying to conceal his crime.



The German term Kinderlandverschickung translates as "sending children to the countryside." 1942-1943. Allied bombing of German cities had increased to the level that children in cities were being sent to the countryside for safety.

POWER OF PROPAGANDA: GOEBBELS TALKS OF A COUNTER-ATTACK ON RUSSIA...IN MARCH 1945



This poster was distributed in occupied Europe and satellite countries from 1942 onwards. It was part of the Nazi attempt to persuade occupied Europe that it was part of a common European crusade against Bolshevism.

"Adolf Hitler is victory!" It was withdrawn from circulation after the defeat at Stalingrad.

May 1942. The text translates as: "Work as hard for victory as we fight!"

This one praises the German U-Boats. It says,

13 Million Tons

That is the amount of British, or British controlled, shipping that the German navy and Luftwaffe have sunk during two years of this plutocratic war. These figures do not include shipping damaged by German mines, or other damage that cannot be proven.

During the World War, the German navy destroyed a total of 12,242,990 BRT of enemy shipping over four years.

This one is targeted at the workers in ammunition factories. "You are the front!"

This is an SS recruiting poster. It says one can join at 18, and sign up for shorter or longer periods of service. It gives the address of the recruiting office in Munich.

"The Jew: The inciter of war, the prolonger of war." This poster was released in late 1943 or early 1944.

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Nazi propaganda posters: Before the war began

Germany in white, with the 100,000-man army permitted by the Treaty of Versailles, surrounded by heavily armed neighbors.

The biblical overtone. An eagle hovers against the light of heaven over an idealized Hitler. The text: "Long live Germany!."
A poster before the 1933 election. It reads "The Reich will never be destroyed if you are united and loyal."

This 1938 poster was issued shortly after the Anschluß with Austria. The caption: "One People, One Reich, One Führer."

Before the 1936 referendum. It says, "Greater Germany: Yes on 10 April."

This one is before the 1930 referendum. It says "Check the war-mongers of the world. Every vote for the Führer!"

"All Germany hears the Führer on the People's Receiver." The Nazis, eager to encourage radio listenership, developed an inexpensive radio receiver to make it possible for as many as possible to hear Nazi propaganda.

Another refrendum poster. It says, "I ask the German people to strengthen my faith and to lend me its strength so that I will always and everywhere have the strength to fight for its honor and freedom, to work for its economic prosperity, and particularly to strenthen me in my struggles for genuine peace." Karl Wahl says: "German women and men, it is in your own interest to fulfill the Führer's request and vote on 29 March 1936. Be loyal to him who is loyal!"