These posters are propaganda for Hitler they both have the aim of enticing the German public to vote for them but they are both different types of propaganda.

Source A is Black propaganda, saying that the Jews and the Social Democrats would both bring communism, this is what the Germans feared the most. The short, fat looking man, a stereotypical Jew, is holding a huge bag of money, is well dressed, and is obviously well fed because of his size this is to give the impression that Jews are money grabbing and selfish. Most of the Germans disliked the Jews anyway but this poster would hopefully, for the Nazi party warn even more people off, as according to the Nazis, would keep all the money for them selves. That is why the Jew is drawn as fat and wealthy.

The tall thin man represents the Social Democratic Party, the Nazis biggest rival. He is dressed like an angel but is holding a club. The club shows the threat of violence, which would warn voters off. The man appears to be kind, gentle and a good leader, like an angel, but underneath he has the threat of violence and therefore is a deceitful, liar too.

The two cartoons display a different message on them but they are delivering the same one, that Hitler is their last hope. The first one, source A, does not carry the message “Hitler-our last hope” but it does make you think that. If the people of Germany were not going to vote for The Jews or the social democrats then “Hitler-their last hope”, the same message as on source B.

Source Ca and Cb also express the same opinion of Goebbels too, that he hides behind the big powerful Hitler. In Ca he says how Hitler confronted the conspirators him self and with great courage and arrested them himself, what you wouldn’t read is that Goebbels wasn’t even there, he was still in Berlin. So he would have had to hear the story from someone else, like Hitler, or a soldier that wouldn’t say a word against Hitler, so the story could easily be made up to make Hitler. In source Cb he is hiding behind Hitler in a sort of scared, frightened pose which I also think is like an “ohh good shot Hitler, go on do it again” pose. They are similar because they both show violence but different because Ca seeks to justify there actions where as the other, Cb, does not.

Source Ca is a statement from Goebbels, Hitler’s minister of propaganda, Goebbels and Hitler were in on it all together and probably wrote it together. Some of the story could be true but in this source only from Hitler and Goebbels point of view, a sick, deceitful and manipulative point of view, this is how the Nazis put their point across. That is why I think this is a biased source and cannot be trusted. Hitler and Goebbels were brilliant at launching propaganda for themselves and the Nazis, so you cannot trust this source to give you the real details of what really happened on the night of the long knives, you will only get what puts the Nazis in the best light, this is what Hitler and Gobbels always did, they turned things round to put things in their favour.

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