Propaganda postcard
A propaganda postcard is a picture postcard or postal stationery postcard , which should influence the mood of the population ideologically or politically. The style of the cards is extremist , chauvinistic , discriminatory , racist , glorifying war or nationalistic . Some of them were not only made for their own people, but were intended for the respective enemy abroad in the respective national language, often as caricatures .
Typically they use totalitarian regimes to spread their ideology and war propaganda . They were a widespread means of propaganda during the Nazi era in Germany.
literature
- Thomas Fürst, Günter Formery: The world of postcard collecting. Publisher: Phil Creativ, Schwalmtal 2011, ISBN 978-3-932198-91-5 , p. 107, 129 f
- Paul Noel ARMAND u. a .: Dictionnaire de la cartophilie francophone , Editions P. Armand, 1990, p. 635
- Otto May : From growing to leading. The postcard as a witness to a failure to educate people about democracy in the Weimar Republic. Brücke-Verlag Kurt Schmersow, Hildesheim 2003, ISBN 3-87105-032-6 .
- Otto May: Staging of seduction: the postcard as a witness of an authoritarian upbringing in the III. Rich. Brücke-Verlag Kurt Schmersow, Hildesheim 2003, ISBN 3-87105-033-4 .