How Did Nazi Propaganda's Role In The Holocaust

Throughout the course of the early 1930's, the Nazi political party began to really rally support in the town of Northeim. At the end of the 1920's the Nazi party only received 123 votes but in 1932 the numbers had climbed to 4200 votes. The Nazi party was great at focusing in on those who were feeling that the Socialist Democratic parties were not reaching them. These citizens of the lower class and the middle class seem to drift more towards the Nazi party because of what they had to offer. The citizens seem to feel that with this

Propaganda is the use of mass media like television, radio, magazines and other mediums to make a large number of people believe a specific point of view. Propaganda controlled Germans and allowed them to adapt to the idea of murdering the Jews. Nazi party created such effective propaganda that immediately people only saw or heard their opinions and they had the urge to comply with them. They portrayed their anti-semitism and the murderous concept of killing Jews in a way that made it indirect yet straightforward and clear. This propaganda allowed almost the entire population to develop a strong hatred for the Jews. Hitler forced all media sources in Germany to send out antisemitic messages to citizens. Anything that opposed him in media was censored or removed. Posters and advertisements were used to falsify the German citizens into supporting violence leading up to the Holocaust. It was especially powerful in enabling the genocide to move from ideology to action. These visual deliberately misled people to believe the ideology was right because of the constant repetition of the same message. Propaganda softened people’s resistance to Nazi aggression. Nazi propaganda encouraged those carrying out the holocaust to think their actions were acceptable. The holocaust was not only caused by

Hitler believed that propaganda from the allies was the main reason that the Germans lost during World War I and felt that this form of warfare needed to be a primary tool in modern warfare. He spoke of this belief in his book Mein Kampf well before the start of the second World War. Hitler felt that the public needed to be inundated with the ideology of the state at all times and through all mediums (Jowett and O'Donnell 2). "To do this," he said "everything from child's story-book to the last newspaper, every theater, every cinema and every advertisement must be brought into the service of this single mission" (qt. in Qualter ix). This onslaught of propaganda led to the Holocaust by leaving no other option open to the German people

The holocaust was the systematic, state-organized persecution and murder of at least six million jews. 100 days after Hitler became chancellor of Germany, Nazis began having book burnings to get rid of un-German writings proclaiming the death of Jewish intellectualism. This was one of the first acts that foreshadowed the destruction Hitler would have in Germany. Since Hitler and the Nazis felt that all Jewish peoples made Germany impure, their goal was to put an end to the existence of all Jews. Nazis required the elimination of Jews from German life. Their first nationwide action against

First, forced to leave your home and everything they worked for to move into a

According to Geary, one of the sectors of he population that supported the Nazis were Protestants. In July 1932 the Nazi share of the vote was almost twice as high in Protestant as in Catholic areas. There was support in over-representation of Protestants, rural areas and small provincial towns, as well as of the Mittelstand, and there was a similar structure to the movements working-class constituency. The working class was under-represented in the Nazi ranks when compared to the German population as a whole. The scale of agrarian support for the party in the election suggests the Nazis were able not only to win the support of presents and rural laborers but also that have some large landowners. The Nazi electorate groups are unique because

The terror of the Holocaust is dated from the time, January 30, 1933, when Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. The Nazi Party had took advantage of the political unrest that was after World War I when Germany was defeated, and the Versailles Treaty established the reducing of prewar territory and armed forces, requested Germany to recognize guilt, and specified that Germany provide money for the allied armies to repair (“Jewish Virtual Library”). Therefore, wage war commence with communism and vicious propaganda in which the Nazi party blamed the Jews for the debilitation of the Germany government (“Jewish Virtual Library”). For the first three years, Hitler had assigned positions to popular anti-Jewish men, including Heinrich

<br>By the summer of 1923, the Nazi party had grown to 150,000 members. Hitler knew this was the right time to take over the government. On November 11,1923, Hitler and his 3,000 men marched to Berlin in an attempt to take it over. The German police were waiting. This was also part of the Beer hall Putsch. Shooting broke out between the two parties. Sixteen Nazis and three policemen laid dead from this massacre. Hitler was sentenced for high treason for 5 years. While he was in prison he wrote Mein Kamp a book that stated his beliefs, and his plan for Germany in the future. He also talked about the superiority of Germans, the concept of the pure-Aryan. He blamed the Jews for the evils of the world and accused them of corrupting everything of ethical and national value.

2). Even though this was not a violent treatment of the Jews, it was an attempt to bankrupt and dehumanize them of everything they had worked for their whole lives (Jews in Nazi Germany pg. 2). As a result, Jews became a segregated people. They had to ride on buses and trains only in the seat that were clearly marked for them (Jews in Nazi Germany pg. 2). Jewish children were allowed to be bullied at school in an attempt to keep them from coming to school. Hitler used this to brand the Jews as a lazy people (Jews in Nazi Germany pg. 2). The Nuremberg Laws passed in 1935 gave even more power to the Nazis and took away more dignity of the Jews. The Jews were stripped of their German citizenship and marriages between Jews and non-Jews were not allowed (Jews in Nazi Germany pg. 2). At this point, the Jews who could afford to pay a fine to leave the country were allowed to do so, but the ones who could not afford it had to stay behind and were not allowed to get food or medicine (Jews in Nazi Germany pg. 2). Hitler’s campaign against the Jews escalated in 1938 with “Krystalnacht” – The Night of the Broken Glass (Jews in Nazi Germany pg. 2). After a Nazi diplomat was found shot to death, Hitler began a seven day war of terror against the Jews (Jews in Nazi Germany pg. 2). Shops that were owned by Jews were destroyed and robbed, homes and synagogues burned

When Hitler came into power in January 1933 he set out to implement his ideology which included anti-Semitism and the enforcement of an “Aryan race”. There were many reasons that contributed to the persecution becoming more extreme between 1933 and 1945 such as: The Nuremberg Laws, Kristallnacht, little or no opposition, the Wannsee conference and the idea that Germany should be germanised. The invasion of Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland leading to World War 2 were also the reasons why the Nazis put more extreme measures against the Jews in place.

By the beginning of 1933, Adolf Hitler led the Nazi party into power as Chancellor of Germany. Not long after, Nazi ideas and actions permeated every action within society. While historians still argue whether the average citizen actively supported the Third Reich or was forced into coercion, the 3 excerpts from Christabel Bielenberg, Lori Riefenstahl, and Sebastian Haffner, all illustrate that the German people were indeed forced into accepting Nazi occupation for fear of their own safety and those around them. Through the employment of fear and intimidation, varied forms of propaganda, and blatant anti-semitism, it is clear that the Nazis were not accepted by the majority of Germany, and instead forced the population into obeying their desires.

Assess the impact of Nazi propaganda, terror and repression on the German people from 1933 to 1939.

Their popularity didn’t begin to take off until around October 1929, soon after the Wall Street Crash began to take its toll on Germany. Prior to the Wall Street Crash, in 1928, the Nazis gained less than 3% of the popular vote. Weimar Germany appeared to be stable,and relatively prosperous. Just four years later the vote for the Nazis had increased to just over 37% of those who voted. At their peak in March 1933, soon after Hitler was appointed chancellor, the Nazis received 44% of the popular vote. From this it is evident that the Nazi Party took advantage of Germany’s crumbling economy and consequent distrust of Weimar Germany to put into place political strategies. 1930 marked the beginnings of Hitler’s colossal campaign throughout Germany, primarily with the use of public meetings, rallies and parades, as well as the strong use of Nazi propaganda. Hitler would travel the country, putting on carefully staged events where he would give speeches in the midst of dramatic processions and performances in venues heavily adorned with propaganda posters and banners. Hitler’s speeches were of mass appeal, promising to provide work to the unemployed, success to failed business people, profits to industry, expansion to the Army, social harmony amongst classes, and restoration of the power that Germany once had. His campaign appealed

Nazi Germany around the 1930’s Hitler the leader would block all bad things about him from newspapers, magazines, books, public meetings, rallies, art, music, and radio.“Anything opposing the leader was censored and removed from the media. All forms of communication: newspapers, magazines, books, public meetings, rallies, art, music, movies, and radio, was controlled by the leader and his supporters.” (1) This all was controlled by the leader and his supporters. Almost all ways of getting information was

During the 1930’s the worldwide economic depression had hit the country hard, leaving millions without work. The defeat of Germany in World War I caused Germans to lack confidence in their government known as the Weimar Republic, leading to the rise of the Nazi Party in 1932 and Hitlers rise to power in 1933. As the Nazi gained their power, they created anti-Jewish policies that functioned on the level of expelling Jews from society and taking away their property and rights and engaging in acts of abuse, violence, and terror against Jews. Their main goal was to drive the Jews out of Germany. After Hitler took power in 1933, organized attacks against the Jews broke out all across Germany. Concentration camps came into existence a few weeks after Hitler came into power such as the Dachau concentration camp. Boycott’s took place whereby SA members would stand outside Jewish businesses to prevent customers from entering. In 1935 the Nuremberg Laws were passed which took away citizenship rights from Jews and prohibited them from marrying non-Jews. They were banned from theaters, swimming pools, universities, rejected from publishers, taking away all the freedoms they once had. It was not only the Nazi’s, however, that strived to push out the Jews, but neighbors and local residents were also part of the act, willing and ready to turn Jews over to the Nazi, and join the beatings and killings. Jews responded to these persecutions by uniting together through organized methods, such