Night and Fog vs Triumph of the Will Essay

However, as Wolfgang Ruge argues, “the Nazi party developed a propaganda apparatus whose activities far eclipsed all previous heights of the demagogy of German imperialism.” On this note, it is widely agreed by historians that the regime was highly successful in one of Friedreich's principles; control of the increasingly powerful mass media in German society as a mechanism for public control. Primarily coordinated through the work of propaganda minister Goebbels, Hitler was portrayed as a leader who was at the same time moderate and reasonable who put the national good before his own interest. Other themes highlighted images of strength and authority which appealed to the highly nationalist German population; epitomised by Hitler appearing out of the sky to lead the German people depicted in Riefenstahl's 1934 film Triumph of the Will, still widely considered the most influential propaganda film of all time. The radio, state produced to be inexpensive, become the regimes number one weapon as it allowed propaganda to not only infiltrate but permeate as many homes as possible.

The Second World War was a time of dread and fear for everybody in Germany and surrounding countries with Adolf Hitler in power, especially Jews. Hitler believed that Jews were the people to blame for the breaking economy in Germany, and soon he grew a strong hatred for the Jewish people, that he planned to forcefully drive out all Jews from Germany. However, he soon started sending Jews and other types of people he believed were a problem, into labor camps and/or killed them. While Hitler was in power of Germany he was responsible for the life of six million people and 1,500,000 were only children. In the sources Night by Elie Wiesel and “Fifty Years Later” by Judy (Weissenberg) Cohen, plenty of rhetoric was used to tell the audience

With Germans of all outlooks desperately seeking solutions for the nation's problems, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party began their climb to power. 'Hitler was gifted with effective political talents. He offered an explanation for Germany's defeat, and a vision of Germany's future destiny, that played upon the fears, prejudices, and hopes of many Germans. He promised to rebuild Germany's power and restore its prosperity' (Isaacman, 16). This won the support of many Germans. Hitler was such an effective speaker that anything he said was believed even if it was not true.

“The staging itself reminded the audience of how fascists use such panoramas: […] Hitler at the Nazi Party Conference at Nuremberg in 1934 as reevoked in the monumental Triumph of the Will” (Crowl, 53). The huge red scrolls and banners with Richard’s badge of boar, the vast crowd waving red flags, all these imageries created by Richard Loncraine echo the past “glory” of Hitler when he convinced tamed German citizens with his mouth.

I must say that this film is very traumatizing. There are some images in this film that will be burned and scarred into my mind for as long as I live. I have seen many holocaust films, but no one was as near as dramatic and depicting as Night and Fog. However I did like the theme of this movie. It is very sad but yet realistic. Our minds are murky and dull. We tend to only remember the important situation in our lives. Yet we don’t remember the importance of our own history. I say OUR history be cause we all are human beings on this earth. Whether we believe in Allah, Jesus, Jehovah, or whatever higher power, we are all one race, and that the human race. It is very sad to know that human beings were treated and

Alycia Grant Rough Draft: The book "Night by Elie Wiesel was the most interesting book that I have ever read. It conveyed very well what had occurred during the Holocaust. Reading this book made me feel the emotions, and stress involved with him being in this situation. The writing was descriptive, but not too much so that it was boring. The writing in this story painted a vivid picture in my mind. No matter where he was, I had a good idea of how his environment appeared in his mind. He described well what he felt, heard, smelled, tasted, and seen. This made me like the book much more, and it helped me better understand how horrible and traumatic this event really was. Elie Wiesel is a strong person in my opinion for being able to go through what he did, and then write about exactly what happened, in deep detail, afterwards.

Adolf Hitler, most widely known as the orchestrator of the Holocaust during World War II committed genocide across the nation, but his reasons for this mass murdering come down to one point; jealousy. As a young man Hitler had a yearning to succeed at anything he set his mind on, and being rejected by art academy’s and living as a homeless man for a part of his life began his envy for others who had succeeded, unlike himself. While Hitler was volunteering for the German army in World War I, he was temporarily blinded due to a gas attack and during this period he claimed to have received his calling, “He was to liberate Germany and make it free from what he saw as the ever-present source of decay within German racial purity; the Jew” (Dufner 15). From his point of view Jews were all he could see, and it disgusted him, so in order for him to fulfill what he believed he was meant to do, he must rid of Jews across Germany. The novel Night by Elie Wiesel and Adolf Hitler are both complex and unimaginable, but they both express belief and their own knowledge of the same situation but from different point of views. Adolf Hitler, urged by his self-hatred began his own plan for the extermination of Jews and even as far as world domination.

Adolf Hitler is very much known for his barbaric deed and responsibility of the Holocaust-- possibly the most disturbing and most horrifying event to be recorded in history. The holocaust systematically killed over six million Jewish people, including over 1.5 million children that were victimized through a number of arguments that many believed was the cause for the destruction. It is difficult to conclude an overriding reason why the holocaust happened, although it is argued, however, that the imminent effect of the psychological state of mind of Hitler, along with the German citizens at the time, had a massive effect on what happened and what could have been prevented. Hitler’s anger and the country’s general

Two of the most significant leaders in modern history were Martin Luther King Jr and Adolf Hitler. Although both figures left their mark on their respective nations’ political, social and economic landscape, one is revered while the other remembered with disdain and horror. This essay will compare and contrast key characteristics that were and are central to King and Hitler’s rise to prominence and memory. Some observations will be based on the speeches in the 1963 March on Washington for the former and 1953 propaganda film ‘Triumph of the Will’ for the latter’s references.

Imagine that your family is uprooted from where they have been living for your whole life, and are moved to a small space with 50 other people surrounded by death, suffering, disease and starvation. This scenario was very real in both the novel Night and the movie “Life is beautiful”. Furthermore, these two stories from the holocaust are similar and different in many ways. They are both from the same point of view which is from the son, the development of Elie and Joshua throughout the story, the characterization of the father, and God’s provisions in there lives while they were in the concentration camp. Although, there are many things that are alike in both of these stories, there are many things that are different. Which consist of the mood of sadness, the fathers different ways of showing love, and how God protected them both but in different ways. In the novel Night and in the movie “Life is beautiful”, the holocaust is portrayed

In addition, the perceived communist threat compelled Hindenburg to pass the Reichstag Fire Decree, nullifying all civil liberties and providing the Nazi Party with the freedom to use violence against any minority or dissenter without repercussion. Political propaganda elevated the status of the party while slandering opponents, providing the Nazi Party with sufficient influence to initiate the Final Solution. However, Nazi propaganda also deceived other nations about the intensity of persecution and militarization in Germany, delaying attempts at foreign diplomacy and military responses. The Nazi Party tailored propaganda to influence foreign perspectives of Germany and directed many of attempts, including the Theresienstadt masquerade, to depict the tolerable nature of life in concentration camps (“Propaganda, Nazi”). Meanwhile, propaganda films such as Triumph des Willens portrayed the German army as a peaceful assembly of workers fighting against the poverty and unemployment of the depression. Foreign propaganda made other nations disregard Nazi violation of the Treaty of Versailles, allowing Hitler to surprise Europe with a series of unstoppable blitzkrieg attacks and distract other nations from his plans for the Final Solution. Propaganda offered the Nazi Party social, political, and military advantages that brought it the political influence, popular support, and time required to implement

During the first part of Hitler’s Regime, the government established concentration camps to confine and detain anyone the Nazi’s though as political, cultural and ideological opponents. The first Concentration camp was built in January, 1933, right after Hitler came into power. Hitler gained further support for his ideas by propaganda, which filled the media of Germany with pro-nazi material. All forms of communication; newspapers, radio, books, TV, art, music and movies were controlled by the Nazis. This way, nonother than what the Nazi’s wanted published could only be distributed to its society, and preventing news about the Holocaust from getting anywhere outside of Germany. This propaganda identified the Jews as an inferior ‘race’, and the source of Germany’s defeat and economic depression in world war one on them.

The rise and subsequent take-over of power in Germany by Hitler and the Nazi Party in the early 1930s was the culmination and continuation not of Enlightenment thought from the 18th and 19th century but the logical conclusion of unstable and cultural conditions that pre-existed in Germany. Hitler’s Nazi Party’s clear manipulation of the weak state of the Weimar Republic through its continued failure economically and socially, plus its undermining of popular support through the signing the Treaty of Versailles all lead to the creation of a Nazi dictatorship under the cult of personality of Hitler. This clear take-over of power and subsequent destruction of any

“You represent a great ideal”, says Adolf Hitler to the 52,000 workmen standing below his podium, in Leni Riefenstahl’s 1934 film Triumph of the Will. The men are their to see their leader, to see Hitler speak about Germany in a new era and further more the bringing Germany together as one. The propaganda played out in this film, displays the scenes were biased towards The Nationalist Socialist Party, providing possible mis-leading information and further speeches incased as heroic yet being quite juxtaposed. The film surrounds the leader of the Nazi’s in a positive way and further the population of Germany accepting and respecting him (Hitler) as their leader and Almighty.

Francois Truffaut continued on to say that Alain Resnais’ Night and Fog, made in 1955, was the “greatest film ever made”. The 30-minute film based on the horrors of the Holocaust and Nazi concentration camps after World War II combines Resnais’ own cinematography with original images and footage of the captives in their unfathomable state. The film is lead with a somber narrative that not only accompanies the sobering images being shown but both compliments them and puts them into perspective. Carl R. Plantigna’s chapter from his book ‘Rhetoric and Representation in