...In 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and transformed it into a totalitarian state. Through persecution and propaganda, Hitler convinced the German people that all of their problems could be blamed on the Jews, making the events of the Holocaust plausible. Throughout Europe, Jews were historically ostracized due to their minority status and beliefs contrasting with those of Christians. For these reasons, when Hitler came to power the Jews were a natural group to blame Germany’s struggles on. During World War One, people often said that “The Jews, [...] had done much to spread defeatism and thus destroy the German army” (Rise of the Nazis and Beginning of Persecution). As a result of this rumor, many people in Germany already had...
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...he was an ordinary man. This particular propaganda gave birth to the slogans like ‘Adolf Hitler is the victory’ and ‘The Fuehrer is always right’. The poster (figure.1.4) which condemned the ban on Hitler’s public speech from 1927 launched Hitler as “The man from the people, for the people! The German front soldier who risked his life in 48 battles for Germany!” The creation of the 'Führer-myth', illustrated Hitler as a charismatic superman and people’s man was one of the techniques of persuasion. It was propagated that Adolf Hitler was one of the few state leaders who did not take medals or decorations. He only wore a single medal that he earned as a soldier displaying the greatest personal bravery. When he travelled he slept in the same...
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...Sonn Eidem Eng 669 World Film: Germany Prof. Macanear Sept. 2014 German National Cinema: Nazi Propaganda Films German propaganda films were used by the Nazi party and Adolf Hitler in order to convey a message to the citizens of Germany. The messages would vary depending upon what Hitler and his party wanted to tell the people of Germany at that particular time. If it was pre-war propaganda it was Hitler on his rise to power. If it was wartime propaganda it was to keep Germany unite in their fight against the enemy and to keep them inspired with hope and promises of victory. "One of the most philosophically fascinating uses of cinema, is a vehicle for propaganda. Granted all mass media-books, television, music, newspaper, radio and nowadays the internet - can be used for propaganda, that is, as tools for getting a message broadly accepted in a target audience. But, it has been argued that film-as opposed to literature, the plastic arts, music and the other performing arts-has a unique power as a tool for propaganda" (Jason203). "The films of a nation reflect its mentality in a more direct way than other artistic films because films are never the product of an individual and the films address themselves and appeal to the anonymous multitude" (Kraucer, 5). This is why Hitler and the Nazi party decided to use film as a method for spreading their ideology. Film allowed them to reach the masses in a way that other mediums just couldn't do. Plus...
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...I. Do you live a lie? What makes us think that we know the truth? Or even what about the people back during the holocaust. They were utterly tricked/ fooled into becoming moraless monsters, seekers without the ability to see, and hopelessly hoping for a better nation. A. “All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach”-Adolf Hitler B. “All news is lies and all propaganda is disguised as news.”-Willi Munzenberg 1. aAn information/idea put out in order to persuade a certain group of people to behave in a certain manner/ bias is propaganda. 2. Hitler needed a way for everyone in Germany to in gulp, and develop his thinking on the Jewish race, thus leading to the mass production of Nazi propaganda throughout the German population. C. “No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.”- (Elie Wiesel, 1928-2016) 1. Holocaust is a word referring to a genocide, or massive slaughter of something/someone. know the word holocaust...
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...all took place in the Reichstag. Hitler was for new elections on 5, March 1933. He feel that when the elections were going to come, elections would not only increase the Nazi share of the votes, but also increase him within the country.Which then that would help him on the elections. While the Nazi Party was in it, this didn’t give Hitler a working condition as when the two biggest parties.On the elections, march 5th 1933 hitler would must likely not get a lot of votes as the first’s elections.All this means that hitler would probably not get as much vote as the first election because of what was going on at the time and that .Hitler was playing a threaning game that could’ve ended his political career.Plus it have made it clear in a few days immediately prior to January 30th, 1933 and would not be able to work with the Reichstag on the...
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...Essay Topic: “Up to 1939, why did many Germans support Hitler and his Nazi dictatorship? “ In modern day history, Hitler is widely viewed as one of the world’s worst political leaders as his racial, fascist and totalitarian actions directly contributed to the outbreak of World War II which posed detrimental consequences on the entire world. From a second-hand analytical view, Hitler is perceived as an epitome of evil and the world still continues to battle the effects of the election of such a monstrous leader by German citizens. However, it is evident that the reasons why Germans supported Hitler and his Nazi dictatorship up to 1939 can be justified. Thus, as a result of his many favorable leadership qualities and characteristics (his excellent oratorical skills together with his promises to the German people, organization of the Nazi party and his intense propaganda), the Great Economic Depression of 1929 after the Collapse of Wall Street, the ineptitude of the Weimar Constitution, and ultimately the fear of communism, Germans continued to support Hitler up to 1939. By 1939, Adolf Hitler had become a very inspirational and charismatic leader as his great skill in public speaking had won over the loyalty and support of many German nationals. Hitler filled German people with a sense of hope that had been long lost for a very long time. Hitler attempted to please all aspects of life as he promised exactly what each group wanted. He promised to pay farmers higher prices for...
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...the Soviet Union. Although unlike Hitler, Stalin did not target the Jews as a race, he embraced anti-Semitic stereotypes at times, such as in the infamous doctor's plot. See http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Human_Rights/plot.html We learn from our text, that "Stalin forced writers and artists to use the techniques of approved 'socialist realism' for artistic and literary expression" (235). Do you think that this is comparable to the Nazi book burnings? I think Stalin, like Mark mentioned, enforced only areas of education which benefited his plans for the government and its people. There was a big change in the way that classes of people were treated; Stalin cared much less about women than the previous leader and he aimed to increase profits through industry for the already wealthy elite and the military (Goff, 2008). During this time he promoted education which would reinforce the values of hard work and discipline, but did very little for the people who worked just as hard as others, the farmers. They were living in poverty. I think that the only difference between Stalin and Hitler here is that Stalin's goals were centered around earning more wealth and making people more productive, though at the expense of certain classes' qualities of life. Hitler sought to "extinguish" an entire race of people, based on superior beliefs of a duty to cleanse the world. Thanks for the interesting posts about Stalin and Hitler! Let's go a bit deeper into the comparison...
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...The Use of Propaganda and the Media by Political Groups Propaganda is a tool that is used all over the world to influence how people think. Propaganda has fittingly been referred to as “the weapon of mass persuasion” by the Canadian Broadcasting Channel. Propaganda can be defined as communications with the goal of influencing the opinion or attitude of a population in favor of the ideology of oneself or one’s group. The messages behind propaganda are almost always political. Governments and militaries around the globe have used propaganda again and again to control their followers. Famous examples of aggressive propaganda campaigns are those of the United State Military, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Emperor Hirohito of Japan and Joseph Stalin. In the past, printed media was the main form of spreading war propaganda. As society and technology evolved over the decades, so did propaganda. The messages hidden in modern media are far more difficult to identify than ever before. The use of propaganda has always had specific motives, but are the reasons behind war propaganda harmful towards society? What are specific ways that propaganda has affected the populations of the world? There are many negative examples of ways that the global population has been influenced by propaganda during war times throughout history. Propaganda produced by the government is almost always under-handed and one sided. There seems to be a formula for the perfect war campaign using propaganda that has...
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...effective was Nazi propaganda 1933-1938? One of the main tools of Hitler’s rising Nazi regime was the scrupulous propaganda which enabled the Nazi party to keep the German people in check and under their control, exposing them to only what they saw necessary and vital for Nazi prosper. This helped raise the ideal race that the Nazis strived so wholeheartedly to create. But, how can we determine whether it was effective? To do this, we must look at the various techniques that were used by the ministry of propaganda, and to what extent they worked and helped the Nazi prosper. However, we can only speculate. We will never fully know statistics about how effective Nazi propaganda was, since there was no market research, very few non-Gestapo conducted opinion polls to look at, and even if there were many others, the information would not be accurate and the opinions affected. If there had been polls conducted, the results would have shown exactly what Goebbels and Hitler wanted people to think - this was achieved by making sure that only certain things were safe to think - and more importantly safe to say. Hitler was able to gain more and more followers and appeal to the people due to the severe state of the German economy and the critical state of the people that had no savings, no assets and practically no food. The Versailles treaty had simply been a recipe for destruction for the Weimar Republic and the crisis was the last straw leading to its demise. Hitler was the only one that...
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...Hitler’s Children “One of the main aspects of society that Hitler and the Nazi Party focused its efforts towards was that of the youth.”, as stated by Jake Cmarada. Hitler had a huge amount of influence on the German children in during World War II and although he mainly focused on the boys, he also had a hold on the girls too. The Nazi ruler, Hitler, was able to control all of the German children by using many methods of persuasion like propaganda and showing anti-semitism, as well as playing on the youth’s emotions. To start, propaganda was one of Hitler’s main tactics in persuading the youth of Germany. Many times, Hitler would state fake facts or tell stories that were almost entirely untrue. The definition of propaganda, according to Merriam-Webster, is “ideas or statements that are often false or exaggerated and that are spread in order to help a cause, a political leader, a government, etc.” To the male students in school, Hitler would technically change history by rewriting it to “emphasize Nazi themes of racial struggle and German pride” (The History Place). As for the women, they were separated in school, but still had propaganda in their lives because they did still go to school. In school, females were taught about the perks of motherhood and about being a Nazi because the German army needed such a huge population to keep up with what they were doing. Many posters in Germany were made during this time showing kids that were extremely happy about school to even...
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...The post- World War 2 era in the United States introduced a seductive new form of mass communications. In 1946, there were about 17,000 television alone in the United States. In the span of seven years, more than two-thirds of the household had a television. The media rose in popularity exponentially after the invention of the radio. Thanks to the media, the United State’s gross national product doubled in the 1950’s and again in the 1960’s. Advertising and propaganda was blooming and thanks to the that, the typical U.S family owned a car and a house in the suburbs. Broadcast television was dominant in the mass media. The television media was owned by three major networks who was responsible for all the live events, sitcoms, and news that...
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...they have been glorified by the whole nation. It is by this that Hitler was able to convince the majority of Germany that the Jewish, Romani, Communists, homosexuals, Jehovah's witnesses, and physically or mentally disabled people were evil, and innately inhuman. Why do you drink milk? This seemingly random question will surely pull up an immediate answer- because it’s good for you, and makes your bones strong. Why do you think this?...
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...Propaganda in Nazi Germany The Nazi party emerged in the late 20s and early 30s, led by a charismatic right wing leader, Hitler led the Nazis to power as the Nazis offered many ideals that were attractive to the German people who were ready to accept any help after the disaster the Treaty of Versailles and Weimar Republic brought onto them. By 1932 the Nazis had around 200 seats in the Reichstag (parliament) and their power kept on growing until Hitler was appointed as Chancellor of German in 1933 giving him and the Nazis virtually complete control over Germany as Germany became a single party state, meaning that the Nazis had no opposing parties that could challenge their power. The Nazi’s strong grip over Germany was a product of their vigorous and effective use of propaganda that was able to alter the opinions of the German public and eliminating any potential threat to their power. Hitler was very concerned with propaganda; he made sure every citizens was exposed to it from children to the workers. He even hired individuals to take care of these matters such as Joseph Goebbels who was Minister for “enlightenment” and propaganda, Goebbels was a fanatic of Hitler believing he was the “savior” of Germany, the book describes Goebbels saying “Goebbels constantly kept his finger on the pulse of public opinion and decided what the German public should and should not hear” though the book might not be very reliable as it is a western book who may hold very exaggerated views on...
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...dictator, Adolf Hitler, to legally rise to power (1933-1945). Hitler was able to rise to power for...
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...As most of society today knows Hitler used propaganda to capture his followers and supporters. Hitler was such an imposing persuasive person, that he assembled many citizens to believe the circumstances he did in which was that the Aryan race was destined to rule the world by using propaganda. In The Book Thief which is taken place in the fictional city, Mulching Germany, Hitler also compelled families to join “The Youth” using advertisment. Hitler was utterly becoming “more and more influential in German politics” because of how our world was then (“Propaganda In Nazi Germany” 2). During World War II, there was much propaganda involved with the reasoning that Hitler’s intentions were to over power the Jews. For example; in “The Book Thief”...
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