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. …show more content…
Jewish people could not own or even work for a newspaper publishing company. They conducted citizenship tests on anyone applying for a job to be sure they were a Nazi. In a 1930 cartoon published in a newspaper, Der Stiirmer, was a picture of Jewish physicians performing experimental procedures on Germans. These cartoons were to suggest Jews saw Germans as no more than animals, which is the opposite of what most Nazi propaganda suggests, that Jews are just animals (http://www.bytwerk.com). Many other cartoons in this newspaper displayed cartoons of Germans committing suicide due to oppression by Jews. Also included were graphic, horrid images of Jews killing Germans in numerous different ways. However reality was quite different. All of these false accusations towards Jews in Nazzi propaganda during World War II had an enormous effect on many German