लास्ट पोस्ट!

I would like to sum up my thoughts and ideas about this whole Axis Pro-War Propaganda. It seems that dictator at that time was really focused on persuading their whole country with patriotism. It would really seem that this tactic was over done, but because of the war it looks like everyone was being easily manipulated by their leaders with hope that their country would prevail. Very predictable useful use of propaganda but it seems to work all the time. Not also forgetting that these men were real good speakers. Each speech was full of easy to understand message but it a powerful after effect.

Almost done.

Almost done with the project. It's Sunday night and after this post we need just one more blog posting. I sure hope someone comes through and e-mails me last minute. This project has been enlightening, I learned a lot more than I'd thought I would. It made me more interested in WWII, especially the propaganda techniques. I know there's more to learn because you can never know all of something and I imagine I might read up on it if I find the time or the appropriate book.

I had a lot of fun on glogger. It was simple to use and gave me a chance to get creative with the project. I found a video as an example of radio propaganda which I posted earlier this week. I thought it was interesting. It would have been really terrible if that was the only thing to listen to because the woman speaking sounded so friendly while she claimed to be the enemy and said hurtful things. It was the kind of thing that could easily weave it's way through a person's mind and drive them to have unstable emotional health.

Heil Hitler!

During the viewing of the film I chose for Pro-war propaganda film (Triumph of the Will) I realized how propaganda was actually used in film to get a message through.I saw how Hitler was made to seem like a hero with giant crowds all coming together whenever he made a public appearance.The camera even gets close enough to see all the smiling and cheerful faces. In the film their was a section of just speeches geared towards nationalism and German pride.It was one after another after another it was pretty annoying.I have no clue how people actually watched this film because it was so boring and most of it was just music with people praising Hitler in some way.
-Ricky

Strong vocabulary and good propaganda techniques, sound familiar, Mrs. Stoklosa?

I would like to point out that Dictators like Mussolini and Hitler, were excellent speakers. Pretty obvious right, but we have to really appreciate (in a way) the fact that a simple person with a microphone and a high position could do something of this magnitude. The use of strong vocabulary, their propaganda techniques, and not to forget their powerful voices really can seem to have a real powerful effect. But we also can’t take out the people’s patriotism for their country. Take the right words, and the right way to say them and anybody could have a few loyal citizens. But add the microphone and a high position in an office and you have a powerful leader.

Video

October 20, 2009 — Tokyo Rose(Sign In): Hello you fighting orphans in the Pacific. Hows tricks? This is After her weekend, and oooh, back on the air, strictly under union hours. Reception okay? Why, it better be, because this is All-Requests night. And Ive got a pretty nice program for my favorite little family, the wandering boneheads of the Pacific Islands. The first request is made by none other than the boss. And guess what? He wants Bonnie Baker in "My Resistance is Low". My, what taste you have, sir, she says.

Tokyo Rose(Sign Off):Thank you, thank you, thank you. That's all for now enemies, but there'll be more the same tomorrow night.Until then, this is Orphan Ann, your number one enemy, reminding you GI -- always to be good! Goodbye now.

Tokyo Rose(Sign In): Greetings, everybody! This is your No. 1 enemy, your favorite playmate, Orphan Ann on Radio Tokyo--the little sunbeam whose throat you'd like to cut! Get ready again for a vicious assault on your morale, 75 minutes of music and news for our friends--I mean, our enemies!--in the South Pacific. (unintelligible)...what you need is a good dad, I mean pop. Just relax, all set? Okay, here's the first blow at your morale, here's him singing and singing, "Hey, Pop, I Don't Want to Go to Work (War)." Thanks for listening.

Tokyo Rose(Sign Off):That's all for now enemies,but there'll be more the same tomorrow night.Until then, this is Orphan Ann, your number one enemy, reminding you GI -- always to be good! Goodbye now.

Taken from youtube.com

Propaganda against jews. :[

As I was going through many of the German propaganda I began to see that many of their posters were attacking the Jews. It surprised me because the Jewish people really did no harm to anyone and Hitler just made them seem like the blame for everything. This led to all the people belonging to Axis countries to hate the Jews. Jewish owned shops were being vandalized, Jewish people were outcasted, and they were completely excluded from their societies. They were put as the lowest of the low; worse than the ways African slaves were treated in the US. They even had parades and exhibitions created to go against the Jewish people. After seeing all of these random attacks to the Jewish people, my view on WWII has completely changed. I knew what the Germans did was wrong, but them lying to the people about the Jews just made it even worse..
-Alex

५ पोस्ट(Alien language, Cracker Jack, and Jazz)

I think my blogger account is a little dumb because it just turned my #5 that I used to title the blog into a squiggle. Who knew that we already had the knowledge of alien translations? They should put this stuff out there, really. That second squiggle with a line says "post," by the way. (I wanted to know what it looked like in alien.) This project isn't so bad. I can't say I'm totally interested in my topic but I don't mind it. When I do the work at home it's much more comfortable I just don't have as much time, I find, which is strange because I should have more time. Conveniently, I can access youtube and websites with the word, "Nazi." I can't wait to be done with this project, it's been a busy week and this is just the cherry on top of my "to do" platter.

So far I've found that German's were some really nasty words. They found something to ridicule and went as far as the rope would stretch with it. It makes you wonder what they were trying to make up for. German's are smart, I've met a few and they were just your regular geniuses and gorgeous, there's not much they should need to make up for. The German's also had cool little trinkets that they sold to the Cracker Jack company, which by the way, because of this war(WWII) the Cracker Jack company had to cut off trading with, which is why there are crappy little scraps of paper in Cracker Jacks instead of legitimate prizes. But that's my other blog(literally). There was nothing in their favor by parading around being egotistical maniacs. They wanted world domination but I don't think they realized that the entire world is not German, therefore, they'd have a lot of killing to do. Plus, the Germans didn't favor Jazz because it had African-American roots (which is absolutely ridiculous, didn't they want Africa?) so they formed their own Jazz band and played the tunes of popular American jazz songs but with Pro-Nazi lyrics instead of cool American lyrics. They called their jazz band Charlie and his Orchestra. These guys were insane, anything for attention, I swear.
-Miranda

The power of speech.

For a topic on this blog, I’d like to make a comment on how easily people were influenced by someone basically yelling at them with a microphone. If everyone was easily influenced like this, then I would believe everything, every metal artist said during their shows. I guess it comes down to how well someone can influence anyone; or in this case a whole country to go to war with two other countries. This is where propaganda kicks in: the dictator uses words like “For your country” or “Your country’s pride.” Easily draws in very patriotic citizens, but how could this work on every single person in Italy? That’s my question.
-Kevin

Who's the main manipulator?

My section of this project is the advertisement section. For my examples of advertisement rhetoric I decided to use the Axis propaganda. As I began searching for propaganda to post on our Wiki I realized that I had not seen one propaganda that was used by Italy or Japan. This made it a kind of difficult task because I was bothered that I could not find any Axis propaganda that was not German. Finally, after a few days of searching online, I happened to come across an Italian propaganda but it was not translated nor given a description like all of the German propaganda that I had seen. Why is it that the internet mainly consists of the actions made by the Germans but there is barely any information on the actions made by Italy or Japan?
-Alex

Does history exist in the present?

As the progression through this project continues it becomes more apparent how manipulative the leaders of Italy, Germany, and Japan actually were. Specifically in the literature would you can see a common use of extreme nationalism. You can’t really blame the citizens of these countries for believing their leaders. A lot of what they say would have been believable at that time and the leaders gave their people hope and pride. I see there is hardly a difference between the common man of Germany during that time and the common American man. What makes us having such a belief in Barrack Obama that he could fix our economy different from how Hitler promised he would for a economically disastrous Germany?
- Ricky

First Post!

Our project is on the pro war propaganda in the Axis powers during WWII. This project has proved to be nearly impossible on the school server. The words "Nazi" and "propaganda" are apparently illegal in school even though the definitions are clearly stated in the history textbook glossary. Finding videos is an even more daunting task. I can't even put a link in this first blog post because I can't get to the sites where the links are located. Perhaps the second blog post will be more successful.
-Miranda