Adolf Hitler: Propaganda And The World War At 1937-1945.

During World War II propaganda posters where used to influence many peoples value, beliefs and behavior. The use of propaganda had a huge impact on the allied and axis power during this time. Both enemy’s used posters to get support from there government and families back home. Creating these posters encouraged people to save their materials so that most of the weapons could be used during the war. Propaganda it was a smart way to get people to degrade the enemy. Furthermore it was a great financial investment for America and its allies during the war. The poster I will address are what I found to be the most interesting and significant during this time.

In the Church, the Nazis had a powerful rival for control of the hearts and minds of the German people. The Nazis have created a group called “German Christians” to promote the Nazi ideas within the church. "We want a vital national Church that will express all the spiritual forces of our people,"[ ] stated one German Christian document from 1933. In November 1933, Hitler attempted to exclude the ‘non Aryans’ from the church attendance and also implemented the removal of the Old Testament (dubbed by the

The primary source “German Economic Goals and the Jewish question (August 1936)” by Adolf Hitler describes antisemitism was central to Hitler’s political vision and strategy. The Reichstag passed laws such as making the Jewish people liable for all damage inflicted by individual specimens of this community of criminals upon the German economy, and thus upon the German people. Hitler figured if he destroyed the Jewish people that the world he envisioned would be born. Therefore, he staged the holocaust to eliminate the Jews from German culture. The factors that contributed towards the Nazi hatred of the Jews includes the ideas of ‘Positive Christianity’ supported by Nazi Movement. Additionally, racial and political factors were significant in their relations to anti-Semitism during World War I, which singled out the Jews as a threat to the established order of society in German. These factors made the Jews a target for persecution and ultimate destruction by the Nazis.

Through propaganda, the Nazis’ ideals are spread effectively to the people so that they have the support as a complete country, accomplishing the first step in their plans. For the Germans, “propaganda [is] the tool by which nearly every facet of German life [dictates]” (Kinser???). Propaganda has become a stepping stone for what the Germans has to offer, even more to anti-semitism. Similarly, the ideologies of German are anti-semitic so they use that to their advantage, combining it with propaganda even though most images are false. The Germans blames the Jews for all their errors and has become the scapegoats for Hitler. All the posters about Jews by the Germans, “[has] little to no truth behind them, but [are] rather elaborate myths [that are created] to single out a group of people that [are] seen as a threat” (Kinser?). This prompts to unity amongst the people with the same perspective toward a single race.

Nazi Propaganda was a well know thing during the holocaust. Hitler and Joseph Goebbels were the ring leaders. Hitler became the German chancellor, and in March of that year he appointed Goebbels the country’s minister for public enlightenment and propaganda. Goebbels had complete jurisdiction over the content of German newspapers, magazines, books, music, films, stage plays, radio programs and fine arts. His mission was to censor all opposition to Hitler and present the chancellor and the Nazi Party in the most positive light while stirring up hatred for Jewish people. Hitler was a well-supported person. Many Germans supported him for many reasons. The purpose of propaganda was to condition and convince people, and get them to believe in the values and ideas of the Nazis.

When analyzing the massive scale of the terrible events that was the German Holocaust, it is hard to believe that social anti-Semitism could progress to such a stage within a couple of years. It is apparent that it should have taken a longer time for the Germans to accept the ideology and adopted unjustified prejudices against the Jewish nation. The question becomes concerning for the factors that determined such a rapid development of the anti-Semitic phenomenon in the course of the Second World War. Historians have contradictory views on the nature of German anti-Semitism’s violence as well as its roots.

Another specific propaganda topic that the Nazi regime focused on was anti-Semitism or “racial purity” where they tried to turn the Germans against the Jews, therefore, creating hostility between the two groups. Anti-Semitism gave Germany a common enemy to blame, thereby unifying them which allowed the Nazi party to remain a focus in everyday life. That was a significant propaganda tactic because it was the “key tool in the party’s effort to unite the German people.” That was accomplished through media, such as the radio, newspaper, and advertisements as well as

Schools played a vital role in the diffusion of Nazi ideals to German youth. In the classroom children learnt the art of war. Children in kindergarten were taught the racial ideals of Nazism through

Hitler’s ideology also reveals a foundation in earlier anti-Jewish tradition in terms of justifying prejudicial and violent treatment of Jews. Just as early Christian writers justified hostility against the Jews by portraying them as killers of an innocent Christ, Hitler rationalizes discrimination of Jews by blaming them for Germany’s defeat in World War I (Cunningham 54-55). In his speech to a massive audience in 1923, Hitler particularly blames the Jews’ “burning interest in [the] artificial whipping up of hostility” as the cause of the tensions created between Germany and Russia (Adolf Hitler on the Jewish Question 216). Another rather ludicrous notion made by the Nazis for the sake of justifying and propagating antisemitism was the accusation of Jewish blood libels published in a 1934 Nazi newspaper. Utilization of this chimerical allegation was recycled from legends circulating in the middle ages about Jews killing innocent Christian children and using their blood for ritual purposes (Hsia 2).

The Nazi party has been the party that Hitler was in charge of. Hitler wanted Germany to be more powerful in Europe. He became the leader of the Nazi party. The Nazis wanted to invade all of Europe and be under their rule. Hitler’s allies were Japan and Italy because they had signed a treaty in Germany in 1936. This paper will talk about Hitler’s rise to power and the Nazi party being an important thing to remember in history because it was not just one country, but it affected the whole world and led to World War II.

At the beginning of the 1930s, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party exploited the widespread and discontent in the German government to attract political support. Hitler blamed the “treacherous politicians” and the Jewish people for the downfall of Germany that was caused by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. Hitler promised his current and future supporters that he would do everything that he could in order to bring Germany back to greatness again. Hitler pledged civil peace, radical economic policies, and the restoration of national pride and unity. The Nazi beliefs were extremely nationalist and anti-Semitic in which the ‘subversive’ Jews were portrayed as the root of all evil.

In 1933 Adolf Hitler was chosen as Chancellor of Germany by president Paul von Hindenburg. With this, the Nazi party came to power. Originally called the National Socialist German Workers party (Nazi for short), the Nazi party emphasized how Laissez-faire capitalism, economic liberalism, and democracy failed in government. The National Socialists stressed the importance of the impeccability of the German race. Although they had very determined ideas, The Nazi party began as a relatively small group in 1918. But coming into the 1930’s this was not the case. The widespread use of propaganda and radio broadcasting were instrumental to the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party.

Nazi propaganda can be dated back to 1926 when Hitler wrote his book “Mein Kampf” (ushmm, 2015) Hitler wrote two chapters about war propaganda, which he always expressed how the power and destruction that propaganda could cause in the right hands, and the importance of mass communication through different mediums. "The first duty of the propagandist is to win over people who can subsequently be taken into the organization. And the first duty of the organization is to select and train men who will be capable of carrying on the propaganda” Hitler continues by saying “ The second duty of the organization is to disrupt the existing order of things and thus make room for the penetration of the new teaching which it represents, while the duty of the organizer must be to fight for the purpose of securing power, so that the doctrine may finally triumph." (James Murphy, 2011)

Propaganda was one of the largest contributors to Hitler being successful. The financial support of wealthy Communist fearing businessmen gave Hitler the money he needed to run his propaganda and election campaigns. Nazi propaganda was used to convince the Germans to believe that the Jews were to blame for many of their hardships and that Hitler was their only hope. Hitler used propaganda that infiltrated every layer of the Germans life 's. It was used in their training, home life, and everywhere throughout the media. The purpose of bombarding the Germans with propaganda was to ensure that there was no escape from Nazi message. This message insured them that they were superior to Jews and that eradicating them was one of

Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, and as a result there was the ability to move the National Socialist party forward and gain momentum. The Nazi party held many ideals that were important and specific to the party. They strived to achieve a pure German race without any “flaws.” To be able to gain the momentum and publicity, the Nazi’s used propaganda to get the ideals of the party to the people. Through the propaganda, radio broadcasting and decrees, the Nazi party was able to convince the general population, basically brainwashing them, to create a unified Germany.