Propaganda Of The Holocaust: How Did The Spread Of Hitler Youth

How did the Nazis convince nearly an entire country and more to turn against the Jewish people? They dispersed propaganda about the Jewish which said all sorts of horrible things such as that all Jewish were greedy. The Nazis created a program called Hitler Youth. Then they used fear. They put fear into all of the Germans minds and manipulated them into thinking what they wanted them to think.

A tactic that the Nazis used was propaganda. Propaganda is a combination of ideas, information or rumors which are intentionally spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc. “I know there are maybe fifty swas…black zigzags.” This quote shows how Anti-Semitism spread throughout Germany quickly. The Nazis had proficiency

The boys branch was simply known as Hitler Youth, and the girls branch was known as the League of German Girls. Girls were training for their future lives as mothers and wives, and boys training to be enrolled into the military. In the last hopeless months of the war, the boys in their early teens were sent to serve in the Germans Civil Defence and in the defensive militia (Volkssturm). In 1939, over eighty two percent of minors from the ages of ten to eighteen, were enrolled in the German League of Girls and Hitler Youth. Throughout both of the programs, the Nazis were filling the young Germans with Nazi ideology. Their plan was to destroy existing traditions and social structures. Throughout Germany the young participated in similar activities, they all sang the same songs, and they all had to wear the same uniforms in Germany. They made this program exciting for the young Germans, “It seemed like an exciting life, free from parental supervision, filled with “duties” that seemed sheer pleasure.” This quote explains how the children that were enrolled in the youth program were excited and thought this was

The Nazi regime also came to the conclusion to use simple and extra-legal terror to scare opponents. The Nazis formed several paramilitary units which included the Storm Detachments and the Protection Squads. The paramilitary units were established during the 1920s with their only goal to terrorize, and in some cases even torture the opposing politicians and political parties. They were also used to protect Nazi leaders. Those living in Germany were terrified to disobey the Nazis and their laws. There was also an event known as Kristallnacht, in this event broken glass was thrown into the streets from local Jewish Businesses, the violence was targeted only towards the Jewish. “After years of antisemitic harassment and discrimination, on November 9–10, 1938, the Nazi-German state organized a nationwide outbreak of violence against the Jewish community in Germany.” The Nazis had power over Ghettos and concentration camps, where the Nazis described as only “undesirable people” were kept and imprisoned. These included groups of people who the Nazis had deemed either dangerous to the state, to Nazi policies or who were to be eradicated from society, these people were, political opponents, criminals, Sinti and Romani people, Jewish people, and specific religious