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Adolf Hitler Propaganda

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To kill many people, one must have a great weapon. For Hitler, his greatest weapon was propaganda. (Gottfried,19) After World War I, Germany was in deep depression due to the Versatile Treaty terms, the weak coalition governments and political crisis. During a vulnerable time for Germany, Hitler noticed that the Jews controlled much of Germany’s commerce and trade and that most of the Jews were well off while the Germans were barely surviving. Playing this information to his advantage, Hitler blamed the depression on the Jews. Hitler said that the Jews were rich and manipulative, and many of them were rich because a large proportion of the Jews were prominent actors, lawyers, and doctors, which turned the population against them. Though Hitler …show more content…

He didn’t always want to be involved in politics. In fact, Hitler dreamed of being an artist as a child, he even ran away to Italy to be an artist. After a failed attempt and Hitler joined the army. In 1920, Hitler became inspired and joined a political party. (Wepman, 9-22) He brought forth a new agenda, emphasizing nationalism, the unification of Germany, encourage patriotic pride and revoking the Treaty of Versatile. The democratic post-World War I Weimar Republic was identified as a weak coalition government and political crisis. Opposing the decrepit government, the Nazi party offered strong leadership and national rebirth. During the 1930s, Hitler exploited the widespread and discontent in Germany to attract political support by offering the Jews as scapegoats for all their problems. Not long after the Nazi party flourished, there was a power struggle in the Nazi party between Rohm and Hitler. Rohm was eliminated. The last obstacle was demolished after President Hindenburg died in August 1934, Hitler issued an election and was declared head of State and Supreme commander of the armed forces. (Rice, …show more content…

Though there was no real evidence that the Jews had a role in selling Germany out to the enemies causing them to lose the war, the population did support the treaty and gained benefits from it. The Versatile Treaty stripped Germany of all her colonies, 20% of her territories, it cost her about 5 billion dollars worth and restricted her military almost taking away all her military power. From 1929 onwards about a decade after World War I, the worldwide economic depression provoked hyperinflation, social unrest and mass unemployment. Adding to the worldwide depression, Germany lost massive quantities of land and colonies because of the treaty, which caused the German economy to plummet even more. (World War I,

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This new low for Germany allowed Hitler to more aggressively push his hateful rhetoric to the people. As seen in doc 3, in which a Jewish worm eats away at “the German economy”, Hitler began pushing hateful propaganda to fuel anger among the German population. Hitler took advantage of Germany’s economic downfall to provoke hatred towards his enemies, specifically jews, through nationalism. He had identified Jews as being the ones who were causing this death of Germany, and thus made it the German people's national duty to defend their nation and crush the Jews. This desire of the German people to save their nation from poverty, and revive it to its once great state, fueled a wave of nationalism to sweep across

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Throughout the 1930’s into the 1940’s, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, more commonly known as the Nazis, ruled Germany under a totalitarian dictatorship. Almost all aspects of life in the country were controlled by the government. Under the control of Adolf Hitler, many innocent lives were lost, and the Germans living there were oblivious to the fact. In order to manipulate the country into his puppets, Hitler utilized many racist and immoral techniques to reign Germany. These methods include exploiting the weakness of the government, propaganda, and false promises.

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This book laid out Hitler's views concerning the prosperity of Germany and the thinking behind their quick economic decline after World War 1. In his publication, Hitler explained how there was to be one, Aryan race occupying Germany and their controlled regions. Hitler had an arrangement for making this "master race", and it wasn't expelling Jews from Germany.  “[Hitler] will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes 12.”(Pg. 63 Night, Elie Wiesel).

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In the 1920s, a young Adolf Hitler became the head of the National Socialists’ German Workers Party. A worker’s organization that promoted German nationalism and anti-semitism. Over the next ten years, his political influence rose significantly and he was appointed Chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933. Then, he eventually took the title of Fuhrer or supreme leader in 1934. He served in both positions from 1933-1945.

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They blamed the Jews for Germany's problems, including their defeat in World War I and the economic depression of the 1930s. As a result, the Nazis began a campaign of anti-Semitic propaganda, which portrayed Jews as subhuman and a threat to the German way of life. In 1933, Hitler came to power in Germany and immediately began implementing

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Hitler easily convinced the people that Jews were a main threat to Germany due to the fact many Jews were fairly wealthy due to them working in jobs like banking and diamond industries. He discriminate gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally or physically handicapped, fanatical Christians, communists, pacifists, trade unionists, social democrats, Germans who bought from Jews and anyone who opposed or criticized Hitler or the Nazi Party. Hitler told the people what they wanted to

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Adolf Hitler uses anxiety and fear and wields an emotional appeal to promise a cure for the dejection occurring in Germany. Hitler successfully tapped into the emotions of the German citizens who felt that Germany was suffering and that there was no one to hear their voice. He kept on repeating his message, again and again, playing on the fears of the people even as he promised to solve their problems. Not only did he make them feel they needed him, but he made sure they truly believed there was nobody else that could do what he can; this physiological method put the German people in a corner, giving them no choice, but to put their faith and trust into his hands. The Führer was able to manipulate a majority of Germany, including Irmgard Hunt’s family, into believing his hopeful lies.

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At the start of World War II, the jewish community was affected forever as a result of propaganda published by Adolf Hitler and other Nazis. Propaganda is defined according to Dictionary.com as “information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc” (“Propaganda” np). During the Holocaust, the Nazi’s motivation behind the propaganda they put out was to encourage all of Germany to view Jewish people the same way they did. They used media to falsely inform the public in an attempt to get Germany to agree with their negative ideas of Jews. The different types of propaganda used by Adolf Hitler and other Nazzi’s, including newspapers, posters, speeches, and laws they passed, were a method to oppress Jews during the Holocaust.

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The Nazi used the Great Depression as the boost to gain support from the Germans. Due to America’s depression, Germany was put into a dire state as unemployment increased, thus resulted in the Nazi gaining votes during the 1933 election. The depression caused desperation within the people that made them feel that the Weimar Republic could not look after them or the country’s financial problems. Hitler made promises to get rid of the unemployment rate, thus gaining the support of the public. Although the Great Depression was a key factor to Hitler’s rise to power but there were other causes: the German’s were looking for a saviour and Hitler happened to be that person; Hitler also played on the German’s fear factor of Communism and Communist which led him to get votes from the middle to higher class citizens by the burning of the Reichstag.

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Germany through the Treaty of Versailles had grown very weak. Hyperinflation was rampant, many men were jobless, and people were starting to feel as if the Treaty of Versailles was unfair and German government betrayed them. When Hitler came to power he denounced the Treaty of Versailles and promised to lead Germany and it’s people to a golden state.

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Then quickly chose to get rid of Germany’s democracy, and got rid of individual freedoms and rights. When the Enabling act came about of March 24 1933 it gave him dictatorial powers over the people, which only lead to Germans believing the aryan race was superior and part of the struggle is because of practically anyone else such as Jews, Gypsies, and the handicapped only seeing them as a threat to their survival. Jews were their most hated people out of those three, they put them all in camps for mass genocide or to work them to death but made it seem as though through propaganda films they were happy living there and it was all joyful to the rest of the world. While also using hate propaganda to blame jews for the economic depression and the loose of WW1 knowingly it was the Soviet Union and the Treaty of

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Through giving inspiring speeches from the party, he noticed that propaganda against the Jews persuaded audiences and voters like a strung cord to believe in his beliefs and ideas. Hitler would often mention that the Jews were responsible for Germany’s defeat, recovery and the ultimate poison to contaminating their “pure German blood lines”. The Nazis used a lot of myths that were anti-Semitism which many of the myths had been around for more than thousands of years. Including the idea of the “master race” / “pure race”. Hitler stated that Germany should be a nation of pure-blooded “Aryans”, they believed that the Jews had contaminated their race.

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Germans were weak at the moment because they lost the war and for the crisis, and they didn’t know who to blame. The Nazi’s gave them someone to point their fingers at. The Jews. In his speeches, Hitler, tried to link his interests to the audiences’ interests.

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