Aug 08 2008
Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change - Day 11
August 8, 2008, Salzburg, Austria
By Walyce Almeida, Dana Janbek & Moses Shumow
The visit to a memorial concentration camp site today was a very emotional experience for most of us. We learned first hand that concentration camps in Germany were mirrored after the first camp set up in Dachau in 1933.
Dachau concentration camp
That insight related directly to the Salzburg Academy experience and raised two fundamental questions that remained in the minds of the students after the visit.
1. How the media played a role in advancing the government’s message and in covering dissenting movements before and during WWII; and 2. How this memorial site plays a role in communicating a story about history and humanity.
Example of propaganda during the 1932 Reichtag election: the poster links the hostile image of the “Jewish capitalist” with that of Social Democrats and Communists
Yes, the billboard says “Marxism is the guardian angel of capitalism/Vote Nationalsocialism”
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