Abstract:

In Germany, which was defeated by the First World War, a major Communist revolution was thought to occur as in Russia. Nevertheless, contrary to what was expected, in 1933 extreme nationalist, anti-Semitist and anti-Communist national socialists came to power, while Nazism, which saw Communism as an enemy, became the official ideology of Germany. One of the greatest factors that prevented the communism from taking power in Germany in this process was anti-Bolshevism propaganda activities. In the anti-communist propaganda in Germany immediately after the First World War, Bolshevism was presented to the German people as an element of fear. In this study, propaganda posters used against Bolshevism in the Republic of Weimar after the First World War were studied in the context of fear attraction, using the indicative analysis method from the quality research methods. For this purpose, the four (Destruction, Death, Danger and Disappearance) propaganda posters, which were printed in Germany in 1919 and identified using the purpose-based sample method, were addressed by French language scientist Roland Barthes, in the size of the concepts of arrangement, burning and myth. In light of the findings obtained, it has been shown that the posters are trying to build myths in the form that the Bolshevism destroyed Germany, increased poverty, and led to the death of the Germans.

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