Analyzing Visual Images

The Caption on the above poster reads "Healthy Parents Have Healthy Children". On your post please do the following:
1. Describe what you see in the picture. Consider color, placement, people and objects, and composition. Everything that you see.
2. Interpret: Guess about the creator is trying to express through the caption and images. Why is this message being conveyed?
Evaluate: What is the intended purpose of this image? The intended audience? Does the image achieve its purpose?

This picture is representing a healthy German family, all the children are chubby and healthy, and the parents are smiling and are stout. The whole family is smiling and they are wearing decent clothing. The picture goes right to the point, "the German Family" it is right in the center, and there are no distractions. The writing is big, yet it is not the first thing we see its on the top and the bottom. The color of the picture is black and white and the picture isn't really loud, and I think what it is trying to show is that there isn't going to be only one family like this, there are going to be many more like this one, so it is in black and white, showing that if you vote for the party, then all of Germany will soon look like this.

What I think the creator is trying to convey is that, all your problems will be solved if you vote for this party, and that you won't have to starve anymore, you will look like this healthy family. So this why it is being put up because they want to attract people to vote for the party, and they are using a healthy family as a bait, because then Germany was suffering under the Great Depression. So this advertisement is giving some of the families some hope.

The purpose of this message is probably for the public to vote for a specific party. The intended audience is the Germans, because I know that the Germans were mostly against the Jews, and I doubt they were talking about the Jews in this picture. The image achieves its purpose, because they are trying to attract Germans, and during that time I would have seriously been attracted to an image like this if I were a parent. So over all I believe this picture is a propaganda to attract Germans, to vote for a specific party, and to generalize all Germans.

Nazi Propaganda

A propaganda is when information, rumours, or ideas are spread out in forms of advertisement.

The Nazi's used propaganda so widely, because they were trying to be elected, and they wanted the Germans to believe that they are superior and the Jews are the bad ones. If the Nazi's hadn't done this, they probably would have had a lower chance of being elected.

Karl Schmidt

Karl Schmidt, has to take care of his wife and 2 children. Due to the depression he lost his job, and he barely had any money. He believes, that if the government abolished the treaty of Versailles, then he wouldn't have lost his job, and the government would be in a stronger position.

Karl Schmidt is going to vote for the Nazi Party. Since he believes that the abolition of the Treaty of Versailles would solve a lot of the problems. One of the Nazi Party's goal is to abolish the treaty of Versailles.

Karl Schmidt would vote for the Nazi Party, because the abolition of the treaty of Versailles is going to solve all his problems. The reason he doesn't have money is because the government has to pay back all the other countries roughly 33 billion dollars, and they did not have any money to give people in Germany proper lives at the same time. Which was why people like Karl Schmidt lost their jobs. Once the treaty is abolished Karl is going to have a little more money and possibly a job, which is a better position than he was in.

Voices in the Dark

If I was in the same situation, I would probably just have said that I was Indian, but I wouldn't have the guts to go on forward. Because, I would know that they would probably threaten to do worse things if I kept annoying them, but if they kept talking I would just ignore them. I am sure a lot of people have been through the same thing, but I can't point out any specific person who has experienced something like this.

Program of the Nazis

There were some very unfair points in the program of the Nazis, but I believe these two points were most unfair points.

The first one was number 7.

The state insures that every citizen live decently and earn his livelihood. If it is impossible to provide food for the whole population, then aliens must be expelled.

This was unfair, because they were giving priority to themselves, and they referred to the Jewish people as Aliens. So if you were Jew and you lived in Germany you would be living in a very low standard of life, and not be treated the right way, which is obviously not fair.

The second statement was unfair was Number 2.

2. Abolition of the Treaty of Versailles.

A treaty is meant to be kept, and once a country has accepted a treaty, they shouldn't try to break it, because the other countries want to keep peace. This seems unfair to the other countries who have kept the treaty, so this was especially unfair.

I wonder why the Germans wanted the newspaper to be in German. I understand they only want Germans to own the newspapers is because they don't anything bad about Germans to be written on the newspaper, and they don't want others to send out their own advertisements and so on. But, I don't understand why they would want in German only.