Nazi Propaganda During World War II

The thought of losing a war when German propaganda was at it's highest point (Nardo) seemed almost impossible. When news arrived to the people of Germany that the army was retreating many people were astonished. A mutual feeling of betrayal was developing fast across Germany and someone needed to pay. Germany had not been united in many years, before World War One it had been part of the Holy Roman Empire but with the collapse of the empire it had been broken into many separate states. Under the Nazi leadership, Germany had felt restored; like the so called ¨golden¨ days when it was a strong militaristic state, such as Prussia, many felt the strong leadership was what Germany had needed, yet almost as fast as the Empire had grown it had

Some ways the holocaust was implemented was the use of propaganda, the relocation of people to Ghettos, the creation of laws to strip people of their rights, and the use of technology to increase the efficiency of the machinery of genocide. I think one of the most effect sytstem was using propaganda because a picture is worth a thousand words. Seeing how the Nazis used propaganda and how that system was very effective and terrible.

Propaganda in general is the idea of getting others to believe in one’s own beliefs. Propaganda is the “attempt to influence behavior…by affecting through the use of mass media of communications, the manner in which a mass audience perceives and ascribes meaning to the material world.”1 Propaganda was a major part of Germany’s way to brain wash people into following Hitler and his army. The theme of Hitler and Goebbels, (Paul Joseph Goebbels, was appointed Hitler’s Reichspropagandaleiter, the Nazis national director of propaganda), using propaganda, “was to merge the traditional German patriotism with Nazi ideological motifs”2, this was basically used from1919 to 1945.

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor from Japan on December 7, 1941. American President Franklin Roosevelt declared a former declaration of Allied war aims with British prime minister Winston Churchill. Japan intended the bombing of Pearl Harbour to cripple America from interfering with their plans of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Pearl Harbour was a military camp filled with ships and planes, the bombing destroyed many valuable equipment and many soldiers were killed and injured. The United States shared many goals with Britain and Russia to defeat Germany, while acting defensive against Japan. The propaganda made by the General Motors Company was used to encourage the public to produce more goods and funds to the war efforts. Propaganda posters

Propaganda is the, information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. People today still use popoganda everyday to pursuade people to either buy something to or do something for that company. It was no different during World War II. During World War II There were many instances of propaganda used all throughout the War to try and convince people to think or act in a certain way. Most of the Techniques used for the propaganda in World War II were based on fear, and if everyone did not do there part we would lose the war.

Disparity is the state of being unequal or different in some respect. This brings to inequality being lack of equality and also the distance toward the rich and poor. Poverty is when having very little or no money and very few or no material possessions. As for development is the act of improvement meaning gaining, expanding, or enlarging. Inequality and poverty can cause a country not to develop well, unless you have a good strategy. In this case I will show you a developed country (Spain) and a under developed county (Chad). I will do this by explaining four disparities of the same for both countries. Those disparities are total population, unemployment rate, and condom use.

Propaganda was one of the weapons used by a lot of enemies and allies during WW II, but the United States was one of the main ones that used it. Propaganda was made up with posters, kids cartoons and even movies. The countries used propaganda to buy the patriotism and spirit of the people of the country. They also used it to make people want to enlist in the army and factories to produce a supple amount of supplies for civillians and military. Several governmental people were responsible for producing propaganda,the biggest being the Office of War Information. The Office of War Information made posters, worked with movie studios to producing pro-war films, wrote for radio brodcasts. They also took tons of pictures that showed the war effort.

Nazi Propaganda and Media During World War II, Nazi propaganda was used to influence the German’s perspective of Hitler’s leadership. The Nazi propagandists identified certain groups for exclusion, initiated insensitivity and hatred for these groups, and justified their worthlessness to the population. The excluded groups included Jews, Jehovah’s Witnesses, gypsies, homosexuals, and political fallouts. Some characteristics of other groups that were identified as “lesser races” were: people with mental illness, mental or physical disabilities, deafness, blindness, or alcohol or drug addictions. The anti-semitic propaganda preached that Jews were an “alien race” that “fed off the host nation,” poisoned culture and economy, and enslaved the workers and farmers.

Adolf Hitler often proclaimed, “Whoever has the youth has the future.” This future would entail the most destructive war in history and the systematic murder of millions of people. This research will study how the Hitler Youth, a youth organization affiliated with the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (Nazi Party), affected the German population, particularly its members, from 1922 to 1945. Specifically, this research will examine how formal and informal Hitler Youth training influenced its experiencers’ decisions to acquiesce to and perpetrate the Holocaust. This research about the Hitler Youth’s effects on people’s behavior during the Holocaust will analyze the role of Nazism versus preexisting societal trends in cultivating genocidal mindset.

The use of radios and the audience increased during 1933 to 1945 which made the radio a powerful and important tool for the Nazi leaders to influence the german public.

The Great depression of 1030 left Germany’s economy badly damaged. During the early 1930s Germany experienced a time of economic downturn. Unemployment was high and the economy was failing, many Germans could not even afford basic necessities such as food. This essay shall discuss whether the Great Depression was the catalyst for the growth of Nazi support. It is obvious that many Germans suffered because of the depression. I personally feel that the Great Depression was the catalyst for the growth in Nazi support because Germany had been badly damaged and Germans wanted a strong leader, someone such as Hitler. However I feel there were many other reasons why the

People make many decisions and choices because of a means of persuasion. Children tie their shoes because their parents warned them that untied shoelaces would cause them to trip. Other children buy a remote-controlled toy airplane because the television commercial informed them that it could fly up to 150 feet in the air. Students go to college because they have been informed by their mentors that college is important for getting a good job and providing for a family. Many German children joined Hitler Youth because, through propaganda, this organization seemed like a fun way to become powerful over the bad guys: the Jews. In Germany, the depression of the early 1930’s was an extreme event that caused democratic parties to lose support. The poor economy influenced people to turn to the radical Nazi party, which offered seemingly easy and quick solutions to all of their problems. Upon Hitler’s increase in leadership and totalitarian power, Germany “became the political and foreign policy [center] of Hitler 's Reich” (Hagen). As their power expanded, Hitler and the Nazi Party effectively promoted German pride and anti-Semitism by utilizing “machinery of illusion and fear” (Risch). This machinery is propaganda, which “is defined as ideas that are spread… for the purpose of influencing [hearts and minds]” (The Nazis in Power: Propaganda and Conformity). Through its spreading of ideas, Nazi propaganda such as the media, education, and mass murder influenced the Germans’ hearts

The Nazis used propaganda to a great extent in Germany. It was impossible to escape and millions of ordinary Germans came across Propaganda every day. Not all the propaganda in Nazi Germany was successful but I believe that overall propaganda was massively successful in gaining Hitler and the Nazis support and influencing Germans with Nazi ideas and attitudes. By dominating all aspects of society many Germans were well informed about the policies of the Nazis and the success of the propaganda used made Hitler extremely popular amongst Germans.

Brainwashing and creating a false sense of hope was a major key in the reason why the Hitler Youth was such a successful movement. Hitler’s claims of reasons for joining his organization of youth was that the children would become “masters of a new world order”, create a better and stronger Germany while supporting nationalism, and prosper as Nazis (Epstein 73). These children were brainwashed to believe that by joining they were individually contributing to the cause, “but just as the times themselves were uncreative and without a style of their own, so the youth movement itself had no ideas of it’s own” (Rudiger in Moeller, 84). All young boys wore brown shorts and shirts, brown shoes, brown caps, leather belts and black kerchiefs shortly after enrolling to immediately strip them of their individuality. Girls wore long blue skirts, white shirts, and their hair in braids or rolls (Maschmann 74). Hitler brainwashed children in ways other than attacking them as individuals. He created

From the years 1933-1945, Germany had fallen under the power of an infamous leader that managed to catch the attention and support of nearly every German in Europe. This man attempted to exterminate a whole human race and, although he nearly accomplished it, the Soviet Union managed to put this to a stop. Despite the fact that his leadership was over, the damage was already done and countless people were killed off on his own satisfaction. Who was this man? How did he get away with these things? Why was he allowed to commit such crimes, let alone run a whole country simultaneously? He was a man known as Adolf Hitler. While many believe that Hitler’s leadership may have been unconventional, his methods of taking over the Weimar Republic of Germany and gaining enough support from Germans to execute one of the largest genocides ever recorded made his leadership one of the most significant in history. Throughout this piece, the reader will discover exactly how the immediate support from German citizens led to Hitler’s rise in power and reign of terror which eventually led to the anti-semitic genocide that is still prominent to this day.