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How Did Adolf Hitler Use Of Propaganda

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As a young child Adolf Hitler always dreamed of becoming an artist. His mother thought it was a good idea for her son Hitler to drop out of school and practice painting. Although, Hitler’s father Alois Hitler did not agree with that idea. His dad felt that painting was not going to get him anywhere, and that his son should be like him and work within the government. In 1903 Hitler’s father passed away suddenly, and Hitler moved to Vienna to follow his dream of becoming an artist. He was unprepared to take the art exam and failed getting into the academy. Hitler had to live in a boarding house for men, and was earning little money to survive by copying post cards for tourists. A few months later in 1914 when the Declaration of war began to …show more content…

Propaganda is forms of persuasions that gives many people either false information or over exaggerate the truth. Propaganda was created by a man named Josef Gobbles. He was the minister of propaganda and public information, which meant that he was in charge of mass media. This included cartoons, newspaper articles, and posters all over Germany. These propaganda materials had many things about Jewish society, which made people in Germany feel threatened by the Jewish. Not only did they feel threatened by the Jewish people but also hate them. The propaganda videos clips showed many Jews in concentration camps that were living a perfect life. Even though everything that was occurring in these camps was the complete opposite. Jews where being tormented and also burned alive. Posters should pictures showed Jewish as rats that were really bad people that will do harm to the society and also the economy. These propagandas seemed so real to the German countries because there was no way of the Germans knowing what was really going on. Anything that went out such as posters, newspapers ads or cartoons, they had to be looked over so everything was bias. It was bad enough that Jews were being harassed by all these materials; they were not allowed to work with any place that had to do with the production of propaganda material. These propagandas did not only show materials that viewed Jews as bad people. They also showed materials of Hitler with his famous solute with his hand held up, or symbols that symbolized Nazism. Another way Hitler and Nazis used propaganda is by books. In spring of 1933 all books in University had to be approved by Gobbles himself or his ministers to make sure all books where anti-Semitic. All the books that were not approved where burned and rewritten to be anti-Semitic. This was an example of propaganda because it made Germans think that books

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