4.2 TASK: Option 2: Extremist or Populist Rhetoric

  • Podcast/Digital Magazine

    Students choose one of the following options to focus on for this task. Ideally each country should produce at least one product for each option:

    Learn about the Nazi propaganda apparatus and analyse extremist or populist political rhetoric before, during and after WWII and/or analyse modern extremist or populist political rhetoric. Identify the use of logical fallacies such as ‘slippery slope’, ‘bifurcation’, cherry-picking’ that are used in propaganda.

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    Illustration: 

    Fritta Bedrich, Artwork from the Theresienstadt ghetto (1942-44).

    It illustrates the difference between film and reality in Theresienstadt.

    Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Film_and_Reality.jpg

    This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer.