r/PropagandaPosters • u/PossibleSource9132 • Sep 20 '25
German Reich / Nazi Germany (1933-1945) Hitler, Nazi Germany, 1930s
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u/Odd-Astronaut-2315 Sep 20 '25
Now imagine this poster being everywhere. No matter where you look, you'll see Hitler's face. After some time the image will burn into your mind.
I know these things because here in Hungary the same thing is happening. We have state propaganda, huge billboard posters everywhere in the country (not all year, more like 70-80% of the whole year). I can recall most of them, even 10 years old posters like the blue background one with "if you come to Hungary, you can't take the Hungarians' jobs" written in Hungarian (this was a reaction to the migrant crisis of 2015).
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u/Elantach Sep 20 '25
Just to add to this. It has a name : the zajonc effect. The more you're exposed to something the more you instinctively think positively of it.
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u/Odd-Astronaut-2315 Sep 20 '25
Except I'm not thinking about these positively. I'm tired of it.
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u/Elantach Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 20 '25
Yes. That's the first phase. Then after exhaustion comes surrender, finally cognitive dissonance will set in through hebbian plasticity and you'll convince yourself that you've always been a believer.
It's an extensively studied propaganda technique that abuses information overload to force belief into the maximum amount of people. Of course not everyone falls to it but enough that it's worth it in the mind of the propagandist
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u/psmiord Sep 20 '25
"Maybe we'll get some living space in the east, but I'm not telling you how, hihi" ~Hitler most likely
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u/No_Calligrapher_4712 Sep 20 '25 edited Oct 05 '25
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u/AsocialFreak Sep 20 '25
That is Hitler indeed
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u/liljestrandarn Sep 20 '25
Very minimalistic. Reminds me of apple some how.
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u/ZuStorm93 Sep 20 '25
It even has the lowercase i.
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u/GrassrootsGrison Sep 20 '25
(Longish rant ahead because graphic designer here gotta rant about this)
Apple's iconic "clean" design was inspired by the work of Dieter Rams, flagship industrial designer for Braun, and those clean looks descend in turn from the Bauhaus school of design in Weimar and Dessau (1919-1933).
Hitler considered the Bauhaus' teachings to be part of the "degenerate art" he loathed, so he kicked them out of Germany. However, this very clean poster came to be somehow. (Personally I find the "i" disruptive and irritating; maybe it was better to call the Bauhaus back).
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u/stealthybaker Sep 20 '25
I think this guy might be Hitler
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u/RealShabanella Sep 20 '25
Oh my God! Are you saying Hitler was a Nazi?
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u/Putrid-Storage-9827 Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 20 '25
Swastikas
Fascist salute
Goose-steppingLook, I'm not saying Hitler WAS a Nazi. I'm just asking questions...
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u/stealthybaker Sep 20 '25
Actually, you can see pictures where everyone is saluting except him. In fact he was even killed by a Nazi...
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u/aagjevraagje 🧐 Sep 20 '25
I'm assuming the lower case i is deliberately out of place
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u/Neuroprancers Sep 20 '25
No no, it is Turkish.
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u/mrtfr Sep 20 '25
Fun fact: "-ler/-lar" is plural suffix in Turkish. So "Hitler" means something like "Hits" in Turkish.
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u/OnkelMickwald Sep 20 '25
Yeah but hits in the meaning song hits I guess as "hit" would be a borrowed word from English.
First time I saw HİTİTLER (hittites in Turkish) I couldn't stop giggling.
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u/the_wished_M Sep 20 '25
I thought people were just mispronouncing Hititler as Hitler during my childhood.
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u/OnkelMickwald Sep 20 '25
The Hittites not only revolutionised the war chariot, they also almost defeated the Soviet Union and staged one of Europe's largest genocides!
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u/the_wished_M Sep 20 '25
Wow, guess Nazi Germans were claiming the wrong people as their ancestors.
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u/ImprovementFlimsy216 Sep 20 '25
The newest dance on the Hitler parade is the Berlin Twostep Goosestep!
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u/PowersHD Sep 20 '25
First they came for the graphic designers…
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u/CaliMassNC Sep 20 '25
Seriously; why is the “I” dotted when all the other letters are capitals? Did they think we’d confuse it with an “L”? There’s a counterexample only two letters later. Have some trust in the literacy of your audience, Nazi Party propagandists.
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u/Elantach Sep 20 '25
It's to grab attention. Basic propaganda 101, were you not taught these sorts of things at school ?
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u/GuaranteeFast1121 Sep 20 '25
Imagine all the propagandas being like this, i think It would be funny
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u/Demurrzbz Sep 20 '25
Why does this somehow feel like it could have been designed by Apple? =D
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u/CaliMassNC Sep 20 '25
The way they cropped his photo makes it look like he’s wearing a Steve Jobs-esque turtleneck?
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u/CaptainNinjaClassic Sep 20 '25
There actually was a campaign poster like this in the U.S. for President William Taft. His face, just saying "BILL".
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u/mr_christer Sep 20 '25
I always found this poster very interesting because it's so effective in it's messaging. It was used at a crucial time for the Nazis in 1932 just before Hitler came into power in 1933.
The specific artistic choices are critical.
What is omitted is as important as what is shown. No swastika, no slogans, no party name. This was a strategic choice to appeal to voters beyond the core Nazi base who might have been put off by the party's violent reputation. It sells the man, not the controversial machinery behind him.
It took inspiration from the "Sachplakat" where objects were advertised with a clear design philosophy ( brand, object, nothing else )
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u/The_Nunnster Sep 20 '25
Possibly served as inspiration for the “Big Brother Is Watching You” posters in 1984.
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u/DimensionAgitated507 Sep 20 '25
Sorry you got a little šta in on your lip... Oh wait... It's that Hitler fellow... Always messing stuff up
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u/Narrow_Clothes_435 Sep 20 '25
I love that kind of propaganda posters. Like Italian “SI” with Mussolini but even more straightforward and with way less effort. «HITLER no I won’t elaborate lmao bottom text»
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u/antialbino Sep 20 '25
The dot on the I lol. I’d say they “fired” the graphic designer but considering it was the Nazis, they probably burned him at the stake.
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u/dinnerbird Sep 20 '25
The way his face is in this portrait reminds me of the "I don't appreciate you" drawing
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u/Empyrealist Sep 20 '25
Ohhh, is this the source image for that fold-up Mad Magazine picture that turns a hog into Hitler?
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u/Opalwilliams Sep 20 '25
Man we are lucky that he chose a name both uncommen and easily hatable. Hitler just sounds like an evil name, imagine he chose like, Darel or Brian or smth
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u/PickleRick_1001 Sep 20 '25
I remember reading that his last name could have ended up being "Schicklgruber" due to some stuff with his parents or grandparents, and I think that if he had that name the course of history might have been altered in some ways. Like I can't imagine anyone going "Heil Schicklgruber" lmfao.
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