ABSTRACT
This is a particularly useful activity for analysing the doctrine of a political or social movement, or assessing the mood of a particular audience from the past. Posters can be devised after looking at a number of written sources which outline the ideas of an organisation, whether in the form of speeches, radio broadcasts or news sheets. In the example given, participants are asked to devise a Nazi propaganda poster after analysing a range of written sources dealing with the party’s programme and the movement’s appeal to the discontented elements of German society in the early 1930s. The teacher could even ‘model’ an example first.
