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FASCIST AND NAZI PROPAGANDA
SI SI SI” (YES, YES, YES) BUILDING MURAL
Rome, Italy
designer unknown
“ NUREMBERG RALLIES
Nuremberg, Germany
Albert Speer (1905–1981), Architect
Mannheim, Germany
1934 1938
During the 1930s and 1940s, the forces of Fas-
cism and Nazism embraced the potential power
of political propaganda, which ultimately took
many visual forms, including graphic design in
the built environment.
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) was a
politician who led Italy’s National Fascist Party
and was credited with being one of the key
twentieth-century figures in the creation of
Fascism. In 1922, he became the fortieth prime
minister of Italy and ...