How Did Hitler Use Propaganda

At the end of WWI in 1918, Germany’s economy was in ruins. There were very few jobs, and bitterness began to take over the country. According to the text, “Hitler, a rising politician, offered Germany a scapegoat: Jewish people. Hitler said that Jewish people were to blame for Germany’s problems. He believed that Jews did not deserve to live.” (7) This was the birth of Antisemitism--prejudice against Jewish people. Europe’s Jewish people have always been persecuted due to their “different customs and beliefs that many viewed with suspicion.”(7) Hitler simply reignited the flames, and a violent hatred was born.

Most of us have heard of the Nazi party’s horrific, genocidal regime on destroying the Jewish race, but what events led up to their dire judgement? In this study I aim to uncover the events, reasons and changes which led to the Holocaust and the further changes in the treatment of the Jewish race by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party.

Anthony Green Mr. Hyde English II Pre-AP, Period 7 May 16, 2016 Racism and psychological conditioning within the German people In the process of having complete control over Germany, Hitler used various techniques involving the use of racism and psychological conditioning, which in return had multiple effects on the German people’s participation, or in some cases, resistance to the drastic state-sponsored acts of genocide and murder. Initially, Germany was a strong state before the first World War, and according to A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust, after World War I ended in 1918, followed by the Treaty of Versailles a year later, Germany took all blame for the actions in the war and Germany especially started to crumble. Later,

Germany was now desperately seeking a strong leader that would rescue their country. The domestic crisis was the source of their anguish and Hitler who called for self determination and the abolition of the Treaty of Versailles appealed to the people. According to the revisionist views “The depression also helped to destroy German democracy and contributed to Hitler’s rise to power, and it was his dictatorship which brought war”. The rise of the Nazis cannot therefore be blamed solely on the reparations, the Weimar Republic and the Wall Street Crash both independent factors from the consequences of WWI highly contributed to the rise of the Nazis.

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After Germany lost World War I, it was in a national state of humiliation. Their economy was in the drain, and they had their hands full paying for the reparations from the war. Then a man named Adolf Hitler rose to the position of Chancellor and realized his potential to inspire people to follow. Hitler promised the people of Germany a new age; an age of prosperity with the country back as a superpower in Europe. Hitler had a vision, and this vision was that not only the country be dominant in a political sense, but that his ‘perfect race’, the ‘Aryans,’ would be dominant in a cultural sense. His steps to achieving his goal came in the form of the Holocaust. The most well known victims of the Holocaust were of course, the Jews.

The Holocaust was a crazed satanic plan formulated be the Nazi party, and the Nazis called this plan the “final” plan. The Nazis believed in some conspiracy that the Jewish people had lost Germany the first world war, and the Nazis also thought whatever was wrong in their country was the fault of the Jews. Therefore, the Nazis decided to put their “final” plan into action. This theory that the Jewish people had lost the WWI for Germany was a fine example of propaganda, but this theory caused the genocide of the Jewish people.

The rise of Hitler and the Nazis soon grew out of control around the 1940s, around when the war started. The text states, “Germany had been struggling since 1918, when it was defeated in World War I. The German people felt humiliated, tired, and bitter. Hitler and his Nazi Party rose to power by tapping into these feelings.” the text also states later that,”Hitler declared that Germans were superior to everyone else. He also offered a scapegoat for all of Germany's problems: Jewish people.” This shows that the Nazis were easily able to take control of Germany and persecute Jews for their beliefs.(6)

During the early 1930s, at the time of the Nazi rise to power, Germany was undergoing great economic hardships due to World War I. When Hitler came to power, he used Jews as a scapegoat, blaming them for Germany's economic problems. During that time, Jews were very successful in business, and well represented in the professions. It is assumed that these reasons were why Hitler blamed them for the economic problems. Despite all assumptions, it is obvious that treatment of the Jews worsened after his rise to power.

On September 1, 1939, Adolf Hitler and his army of Nazis attacked Poland, marking the first day of six years of war, fear, and suffering. Hitler had long since came to power in Germany. After World War I, Germany was stripped of many things; money, cultural worth, dignity and power. The Germans needed a place to look to for help; they needed a promising future, and Adolf Hitler promised them just that. Blaming the Jewish religion, Hitler began to rise from the masses of Germans. He convinced Germany that the Jews were “untermenschen”, of what roughly translates to in English as “subhuman” or less of a human. So eager for hope of a better way of life, the rest of Germany trusted and gave him the power he needed to carry out multiple acts of destruction.

Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 and his sudden control over Germany sparked a new age of reform within the new “Nazi-state” (Hunt 848). As Nazism became a major aspect of everyday life in Germany, Hitler plotted against his enemies and those he blamed for Germany’s defeat in World War I: the Jewish race. In his biography, Mein Kampf, Hitler discusses the artistic, social, and technological superiority of Germany (“Aryans”), why he believes the Aryans are the ultimate dominant human race, and he makes many anti-Semitic remarks against the Jews. (Lualdi 224). In 1935, the “Nuremberg Laws” were enacted to deny Jewish Germans of their citizenship; this ultimately led Hitler to carry out his “Final Solution,” in which he hoped to fully

Philosophers have theorized that the “atrocities of the Holocaust were not caused by psychopaths but ordinary people placed under extraordinary pressure to conform” (Shpancer par. 1). The Holocaust was one of the most terrible events in human history and the people under the Nazi leadership (1933-1945) were pressured into supporting the persecution of Jews and other enemies of the German Reich and the Fuhrer. Not all people who participated in the persecution of the Jews and other minority groups agreed with the ideology of the Nazi Party, but if the citizens of Germany or other Nazi-controlled territories did not accept the rules and regulations emplaced by the central government and military, they would face similar persecution. Since the conclusion of World War II, “we have learned that the pressure needed [may] not [have been] extraordinary at all […and] it may not [have been] experienced as pressure, but as relief” (Shpancer par. 1). With the conclusion of World War I, Germany saw a rapid decline in manufacturing that led to the German economy crashing and the rise of inflation after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. For many Germans, they saw hope for Germany in the rising Nazi Party. With the support of the people of Germany, the Nazis were able to rebuild infrastructure, the Luftwaffe (German Air Force), end inflation, and create millions of jobs in the

The central theme to this essay will be to answer the question “Discuss the roll that graphic design played in political/social change in a specific period”. This essay will look into what Hitler’s propaganda meant for the Nazis and the population of Germany. Propaganda is the dissemination of information to influence or control large groups of people. In totalitarian regimes like Nazi Germany, propaganda plays a significant role in consolidating power in the hands of the controlling party. (ushmm, 2015) This essay in conjunction will look into what Hitler’s propaganda meant, what methods conducted by Adolf Hitler and the Propaganda Ministry, directed by Dr. Joseph Goebbels use to infiltrate their enemies and commit mass genocide of the

World War II was a major conflict that affected the world, leaving behind several casualties, broken cities, and death. Under Adolf Hitler’s control, Nazi Germany sought to conquer and control Europe as a dominant race. Hitler singled out and blamed the Jewish population and “labeled them the cause of all of the nation’s ills” (Upshur, 863). From the beginning, the German Jews were deprived of jobs, stripped of their civil rights, and forced to mark themselves and their buildings with the Star of David. Soon after, the Jews were being attacked by mobs, murdered and forced to emigrate. The Nazis final attempt to rid Germany, and the world, of the Jewish populations, was by capturing the Jews and imprisoning them in labor camps, or Concentration Camps. Hitler did not stop there, anyone who hid Jews or opposed the Nazis was executed or brought to the camps as well. Hitler’s attempt to purify the German race by weeding out the inferior people was an act of Scientific Racism (Upshur, 863). His ideas and ideology of the German nation helped to justify his actions, but conquering and controlling Europe was his main goal.

After World War I, Germany was in ruins. Not only was Germany physically damaged, the people’s morale was destroyed. From the fiery ashes of WWI, a German leader arose and preached a message of patriotism, prosperity, and racial purity. He launched a crusade for a 1,000 year empire, setting the stage for tragedy like none the world had ever seen before. After World War I, Adolf Hitler was able to rise to power due to the weakened Weimar Republic, which resulted in societal tensions. This environment made Hitler’s political maneuvers that much more effective.