Germany's Sculptor
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Germany's Sculptor

Categories Holocaust 
grades:  High School (9-12) 

Lesson Summary:

From Yad Vashem:
"This lesson provides an opportunity for students to examine how art and images were used as propaganda in Nazi Germany. Analyzing a cartoon published in Germany in 1933, students will explore a primary document which illustrates how the visual arts were forced into complete submission to censorship and National Socialist “coordination.” "



Objectives

  • analyze a political cartoon from Germany in the 1930s.
  • define propaganda and learn to recognize some of its tactics and strategies of manipulation.
  • discover how the Nazi regime used visual material as a powerful propagandistic tool in promoting their ideologies (advancing their platform of racial superiority) and furthering their political and social agenda.
  • learn how to “read” and analyze images - for their efficacy, content and aesthetic value.
  • debate important questions about the relationship between art and politics, state-sponsored censorship and free speech.

Be Inspired:The ideas included are offered as starting points as you and your students explore, discover and live the lessons. Be sure to elicit and encourage student and parent participation, consistently reinforcing the value being addressed. Allow lessons to authentically develop and change based on engagement and interests.


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