The preparations of followers of the ideology of Nazism for the thousand years of the so- called Third Reich, which ultimately only lasted from 1933 to 1945, included all age groups. The methods of the Nazi propaganda apparatus, which flooded communication channels from radio to print, expressed their capability particularly in raising the youth to despise all that is non-German, especially the Jews, which Nazi adherents classified as a race and not as a religion. In this thesis I explore how the then German propaganda mechanism incorporated methods of propaganda into children's literature. In particular, I examine fairy tales and their film adaptations, as well as analyse the occurrence of Domenach's principles of propaganda in the available collections of children's picture books from the period of the Third Reich. I present Domenach's principles of propaganda as key to carry out effective propagandistic communication, which I confirm with discourse analysis on collections of stories for children from 1936 to 1938.
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