Study Task- 03 - Summarising and referencing

In today's session with Simon we had to create a extensive mind map of our chosen topic.
My topic was Political, so i wanted to try to have a range of things on my mind map, but with a little extra focus on the Nazi's raise to power in WW2, as this is the area i want to go in the direction off.

This was the mind map:

On finishing what we could on the mind maps, we then had to gather in groups of our subjects and talk through our ideas and what we've discussed on our maps.

Next short task Simon gave us was to write a short hypothesis on our topic question, also our hypothesis only had to focus on the direction we wanted to go into. The question for political was "Discuss the roll that graphic design has played in the political and social change in a specific period".

This was my hypothesis:

Graphic design played a very crucial role in the Nazis raise to power during ww2 and even to this very day, especially in terms of propaganda. Hitler’s Reich minister Joseph Goebbles saw the huge advantage and benefits from using propaganda as a source of corrupting people’s beliefs. Joseph saw the advantage from portraying propaganda through different media from advertisements, books, films and magazines.

It was a huge chance for Hitler to use propaganda to push his own agenda and to indoctrinate most of the German population to focus on anti semitism of Jews and to for Hitler to drill and brainwash his own ideology.

Task

The chapter i read was from the book "Propaganda print" and what it was talking about was what 5 aspects Hitler found to be extremely important and beneficial when creating any form of Propaganda. 

The five factors were:

1. Avoid abstract ideas and appeal instead to the emotions.
2. Employ constant repetition of just a few ideas, using stereotyped phrases and avoiding objectivity.
3. Put forth only one side of the argument.
4. Consistently criticise enemies of the state.
5. Identify on enemy for special vilification.

The quote i found most interesting in this book was from Joseph Goebbles and it read:

"It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. What after all a square and a circle? They are mere words and words can be moulded until they clothe ideas in disguise"

Moore, C. (2010). The Nazis. In: Propaganda prints. LONDON: A&C Black Publishers Limited. p146-149.