Week 3 Discussion Questions

When reading the first piece by David Welch about how Nazi Germany utilized propaganda to persuade its people to believe in the inhumane practices that were going on in the country, it became very clear to me how important film as a medium was to the advancement of this propaganda. Welch touches on how because film was a relatively new art form, it was able to give people a view of various important moments through a lens that they had never experienced before. I wonder if this could be replicated in the future using new medium live VR etc.

In the second piece, I specifically found it interesting when Alan Sennett talked about the plane going over the town in the film that we watched last class. I, too, pegged this scene as something that must have been a very new sight for people at this time and put into perspective the vastness of not only the tow that they lived in but the world. How much do you think propaganda in World War II impacted the worldview of people experiencing it?