Adolf Hitler's Propaganda Speech

Everyone knows of the tragic, inhumane event that took the lives of 6 million people: the Holocaust. However, most do not understand how Hitler and the Nazi Party successfully manipulated their way into power and got away with hierarchical homicide. So, how did they convince an entire nation to hate certain groups of people?

First of all, one must understand that Hitler was utterly talented at making speeches. His skills for speech-making were even recognized at an early age by the majority of his teachers. His carefully-made speeches were effective at making the citizens emotional, which made their minds extremely susceptible. In his first speech, “he openly expressed his hatred for Jewish peoples and communists, and he claimed that they

In fact, “the historical origins of Nazi Propaganda can be traced back to Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf,’ in which he devoted two chapters to analyzing the importance of propaganda and its practice.” (Narayanaswarmi, 1.” Hitler himself even agreed that propaganda is an extremely effective weapon. He stated in his book, “Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people… It works on the general public from the standpoint of an idea and makes them ripe for the victory of this idea.” In Hitler’s autobiography, he did not hesitate when he spewed out hatred against Jews; he said he believed Germans were superior, and he shared his point to destroy democratic countries and rid Europe of Jews. (Haugen 51) When people began to read his book, they already admired Hitler as a great leader who would do great things for Germany, so they trusted everything in his book to be true, “which enabled the entire country to be exposed to misleading propaganda.” (Haugen

Several laws were made, and they were strictly enforced. One law was the “Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring.” This law was established to “’get rid’ of the disabled, whom were considered ‘life unworthy of living.’ (Wikipedia: Propaganda in Nazi Germany) Also, the “Ministry of Propaganda” was established by the Third Reich to “enforce Nazi idealology.” (Wikipedia: Propaganda in Nazi Germany) This Ministry controlled almost all forms of media to monitor the content that was exposed to the German population. As the war became more intense, “the increasing hardship called for more propaganda that the war was forced on Germans by refusal of foreign powers to accept their strength and independence.” (Wikipedia) With all of these misleading claims and prejudices, all of Germany was fed lies from a person and group they admired and