Why Do People Use Posters?

For my Extended Essay I chose to write about a topic that personally interests me which however still has a historical background. I therefor decided on writing about posters and how they have been used and how they influenced the local people, shown from different perspectives, in the former years and still nowadays as a form of propaganda focusing mainly on the German and Nazi background. Before going deeper into he topic of propaganda we ask our self what propaganda actually is. It is a form of information, which is especially of a biased or ambiguous nature, used to publicize a political source or point of view.
There are various forms of propaganda, for example the bandwagon, which is when people tend to believe or do those things
These groups of people generally included Jews and Slavs (an Indo – European ethno – linguistic group that live in central Europe, East and Southeast Europe however also in central and southeast of Asia), however mentally or physically disabled people and homosexuals were as well seen as an ineligible group of people and therefor persecuted or murdered through various methods. These, for example, included death through gas, hunger or too much work.

But why use posters as a form of propaganda?
Posters are a very simple form of bringing information to the viewer in a quick and easy way. This is because posters are mainly just one piece of paper in any desired size, shape or color. Another reason why many customers decide on using posters as a form of propaganda is because they do not want to bore the viewer with any unnecessary information in a written form. While analyzing posters one will realize that slogans, dates or locations are mentioned due to the fact that the designer is then capable of using strong and powerful words that persuade the viewer in a stronger
An example could be a love of a specific country that, in our situation is Hitler’s love to the country Germany. As seen in this image, not only did the Nazi Party use other people (families, children, Jews and many more) as a form of propaganda but also Adolf Hitler himself was represented in many posters which was sometimes more convincing than anything else and addresses the Aryan race in a more personal way.

In picture 2 one can see that there are two things that the eye catches first, either the hand with the pointing finger at the top right corner or the frightened man in the bottom left corner. However it depends on with what perspective you are looking at the picture. If a Jew would look at this picture he would se himself cramped in a corner, maybe feeling ashamed, frightened or scared if one takes a closer look t his face. This man is clearly depicted as a Jew, which is revealed by looking at his coat, where a small orange star, somehow catching the viewer’s eye,