'What is this?'-The very first thought that came across my mind. I saw a big, fat, ugly figure holding objects. After carefully looking at the picture I found out that this man was wearing all black but the background was yellow. It is obvious that the main object in this picture is the man in black. I think this man is a Jew because of a few reasons. First of all he seems to be wearing a Jewish type of hat on his head. Another factor that makes me believe that this man is a Jew is because the man has a huge nose. During the time of the Nazi's rule, the propaganda against Jews that included a figure of a Jew all had a big nose. This is probably because from the Nazi's P.O.V. (point of view) all Jews had bigger nose than the 'pure blood'. Another evidence that supports my claim of the man being Jewish would be the beard on his face. The other poster that consisted of a Jews also had beards on it. The man in the picture looks very fat and at that time the Jews were suppose to be very wealthy and very well fed, which means they will be fat. If you look, there is a stone. On it there is a red communist mark. This indicates that the Jews support communism. On one hand, there are coins indicating that they are wealthy.
I think that the person who created this poster is a Nazi Party platformed person because the poster has a very negative view of a Jew. This poster was created during the strong rule of the Nazi. I think this was around 1937 to 1940. This was showed in many different medias such as books, films, posters and newspaper. I think this is poster was to the people in Germany because the Nazi's wanted people in Germany to think that Jews are not to be trusted and a very bad for Germany.
I think the person who created this piece wants to show that Jews are very bad. They want the people to think that Jews are wealthy, evil, ugly, not to be trusted, and in human. I say wealthy because of a few reasons. First of all the man is a wearing a very good looking suit and secondly because the man has some coins in his hand. It seems as if the man is showing his money off. I say evil because of the rock which has the communist sign on it. I say ugly because of his face and how it has wrinkles and the beard. I also say that Jews should not be trusted because of the weapon on one hand and the other with coins. To me it seems like that person is trying to lure someone into coming closer than killing him/her with the weapon in his other hand. I finally say in human because during the time in Germany, so many people were poor and was jobless but this picture of the Jew showed how wealthy they were.
This poster would have influence the attitudes and actions of people in Germany very negative to Jews. They would have thought that Jews should not be trusted. They would think that they are back stabbers. They would have supported the Nazi's decisions to exclude Jews. Germans would stop being friends with the Jews.
This image is full of lies and contains is misleading information. Not all Jews are like the man in the poster, in fact maybe NONE of the Jew might be like that man. This shows how Nazi's will do anything to accomplish their goals. In this case they are trying to get all the 'pure-bloods' to turn against Jews. In my opinion I think this image expresses a negative message because of they a making someone who looks like a Jew very bad. They want to make all German people to hate the Jews. As you can see the Nazi's really hated the Jews for some reasons and because of all the propaganda they made against Jews, the Germans was influenced to believe that all Jews was like that. This was the start to the Holocaust and all the horrible things that went through World War II.
Akira Fukaya
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