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| author |
Kelly Duddy
| | title |
The Ideological Flexibility of Nazi Propaganda: A Case Study of The Nazi Primer
| | abstract |
This thesis is a case study of Nazi propaganda, which will lay out the debates in three
different areas of ideological policies written about in the Nazi Youth Primer. As there is but one
citation in the entire Primer, this thesis will analyze the academic debates in Nazi racial science,
economics, and geopolitics to see which ideas are being included and excluded. The first area of
analysis will layout the debate between the academia of eugenicists and racial scientist, arguing
that the Primer uses language of eugenicists to support Party sterilization policies. The next
section on economics will cross analyze the Primer with the debate between restoration
economics and war economics, explaining that the Primer tried to garner support for the Four
Year Plan by downplaying the racial elements of war economics and using the language of
restoration economics. Finally, the last section on geopolitics breaks down the debates within
Nazi demography and geography; the former includes a divide between eugenic and numeric
population policies, while the latter details the divide between deterritorialization and
reterritorialization. Again, I will argue that the editor of the Primer chose to exclude the racist
language (in eugenic deomgraphics and deterritorializaation) in order to support population and
geopolitical policies of the Nazi Party. This thesis will contribute to scholarship on the aim of
Nazi propaganda, arguing that the in the Primer, the Nazi Party showed ideological flexibility by
downplaying racist elements of their ideologies through a mask of nationalism in order to garner
support of party policies.
| | school |
The College of Liberal Arts, Drew University
| | degree |
B.A. (2019)
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| advisor |
Edward Baring
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| committee |
Joshua Kavaloski
Hilary Kalagher
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| full text | KDuddy.pdf |
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