The Nazi Evangelicalism : Nazi Propaganda

Such propaganda included posters asking people to “Wake up America! Civilisation calls every man, woman and child!” A British poster that emphasises the involvement of the total population in the war effort shows different kinds of people engaging in war responsibilities – men at battle, women in the workforce making uniforms, men making weapons – and it asks “Are YOU in this?” This kind of all-embracing propaganda had the aim to brainwash whole nations. The combination of the public’s thirst for information about the war and various governments’ urgent need to mobilise entire civilian populations for the war effort led to a moulding of the public’s thinking through the printed word. In Germany, for example, the military had the right to censor the press and any information that could distress the people was suppressed, while unfavourable news about a situation on the front was passed over silence, delayed or toned down. This was the same in Britain and France. The First World War was total because propaganda and censored news were used as weapons that could reach whole populations and intervene into everyday lives. Even though not all people were physically involved in battle, even children could look at a newspaper or propaganda poster and feel the impact of war through words that evoke fear, sadness, anger or give the urge to join the army.

Totalitarian leaders used propaganda to persuade followers to believe that their country would be restored again. Propaganda is when information deliberately spread to help or harm a person, group, or institution. This allows people to be pursued by the leaders and gives the leaders the advantages. In document C, poster created by the Nazi government in 1938, encourages Germans to vote for the annexation of Austria. In the poster you can see that their is hands in air showing that Germany is always united. In this poster, you can see that at the top there are some letters, these letter in English means United Germany. At the bottom the word “Ja!” means YES!. This means that the people are proud of their country. In document B, a speech by

What would make a group of people ignore their country’s own genocide? In Nazi Germany, the answer was propaganda. From the end of World War I, the German leaders knew how important propaganda was. By the time Hitler had complete control of the military, the powerful propaganda film Triumph de Willens was already being produced . By the time the second offensive started, they had already launched an international propaganda magazine called Signal. Both of these are prime examples of the purpose of German propaganda. Like earlier British propaganda, it had two primary roles. First, the control of the people. Gobbels’ propaganda about “national enemies” made it seem as if the Nazis were the only alternative to a loss in national security. The second goal was scaring foreign powers. Through international magazines and radio broadcasts such as Signal, German power and victories were highlighted and shown to the world. The three key issues are the attacks on Jews and Communists, the origins of these methods, and the uses of these methods to create a powerful Nazi government. Through slandering and suppression of the opposition of the Nazis, Hitler’s media soon became the voice of the country. The Nazi Party used propaganda to gain power out of fear for national security.

All you have to do is sign this document and all your suffering and pain will end, now will you sign, or not? This is a decision that many of Jehovah’s Witnesses during the Nazi Regime faced. What did this document contain? It stated that they would abandon their beliefs and faith in Jehovah God and pledge loyalty to the man behind their persecution of not only them, but also persecutor of the gypsies, Jews, and other groups of people he hated, he was Adolf Hitler. Jehovah’s Witnesses had a number of their human rights violated during the Holocaust. Foremost though, what are human rights? According to www.humanrights.com, human rights are, “The rights you have simply because you are human.” There are thirty human rights that are found in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that people should apply, but sadly don’t. The book Stolen Into Slavery by Judith Dennis and Fradin explains another group of people that were violated of their human rights, 19th century slaves. These slaves were required to labor and suffer pain in the South, but some of these slaves were actually free black men from the northern states (where slavery was illegal) who had been lured into the southern states (where slavery was legal and encouraged) like Solomon Northup was a victim to this scam. Jehovah’s Witnesses and slaves were persecuted in a homogeneous manner, in a sense that both groups were tortured, imprisoned and taken away to another country or location, and they were also stripped of

Dictionary.com definition of Neo-Nazi: “A person who belongs to a political organization whose beliefs are inspired by a reminiscent of a Nazi”.Neo-Nazis are like a gang that is world wide they kill, deal drugs, and start riots(Anti- Semtitism Neo- Nazis). Neo-Nazis weren't always called Neo -Nazis but the Jewish people always had a problem with their so called religion because all that the Neo-Nazis have done went against everything that is about their religion (Neo- Nazi Germany).

In World War 2 many religions were being persecuted and punished “because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Roma (Gypsies), the disabled, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah 's Witnesses, and homosexuals,” states The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum .

Joshua McConnell Mrs. Johnson Honors English 10 4X 12-15-2014 Nazi Propaganda Nazi propaganda played a big role during the Holocaust because it was used to brainwash the German people into thinking that Jews were subhuman and were not worth anything. Some of the things they used included posters, books, and propaganda films that portrayed concentration camps as positive. This led to the Holocaust being accepted by the German citizens. This essay will talk about how Nazi propaganda was used during the Holocaust, who used it, and why they used it. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels were the main people to use Nazi propaganda in order to control the German people.

Propaganda has always held sway over hearts and minds. Although the United States’ first large-scale wartime experience with propaganda in its semi-modern form of ‘yellow journalism’ took place during the Spanish-American War , primitive forms of it have existed since the days of “the tattoo-covered Caddo warrior, whose body attests to every victory, accomplishment, or god worshiped” and “Hannibal’s titanic war elephants advancing across the Italian plain.” Even “the ‘rebel yells’ of Confederate soldiers proclaiming that a charge was about to ensue” can be considered a sort of propaganda because in its most simple definition, propaganda is “the manipulation of opinion.” However, the modern propaganda which Americans are most familiar with is well summed up by the Merriam-Webster definition: “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.” The beginning of the 20th century and the onset of World War I marked the beginning of the true modern propaganda era, and throughout the 20th century, propaganda has grown in scope and influence, as well as been altered in how it is disseminated among and marketed to the people.

A different kind of propaganda machine emerged in the United States during World War II. As opposed to the state controlled monopolies of media producing propaganda in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, the United States’ propaganda machine was mixed between government and free market propaganda. The United States’ government propaganda efforts followed a policy “that it must always retain the essence of truth in what it said” (Rhodes 144), differing from the intentional misleading of Nazi and Soviet propaganda. The poster, though influential, was not the preferred theme of propaganda by the Americans because it was not always as effective as other forms of propaganda, such as the radio and newspapers (Rhodes 150). Nevertheless, posters were used to sway thought by a number of government agencies and corporations, and they encouraged an increase in factory production for wartime economic output, help to defeat the enemy in combat, and overall patriotism as a way to motivate the people (Rhodes 150). In the United States, posters were often flourished with bright colors to catch the viewers’ eyes; therefore, colors like bright blue, yellow, or American red, white, and blue often created the background or the message written on the poster (Little). Once again, the use of propaganda to shape thought was necessary in the United States to both keep the spirits up of the people and to get the people to be opposed to the enemy while supporting the domestic government; thus, the production of posters that encouraged behavior in this way.

Though propaganda has never been a substitute for military strength, extensive resources, or skillful negotiation, it has often played an important role in wartime strategy.(Propaganda,1) Propaganda really influnced both sides of World War II. In this paper I will show why the Nazi party best benifited from the use of prapaganda. Adolf Hilter use it to turn people against jews, blacks and about every one else that was not German and he also use it to make people want to join Nazi army. Franklin Roosvelt or F.D.R also use the science of propaganda to turn people against Germany, Italy and Japan. Hitler had first become aware of propaganda and its uses before the First World War. During the war he saw the

Over the years, the use of propaganda has been important during military conflicts. Some individuals believe that propaganda is bad because there is no justification for the use of propaganda. On the other hand, other individuals believe that propaganda is good to use during wartime and it is useful as well as necessary. I strongly believe that propaganda posters are good during for the wartime because they helped to unite citizens, information could be spread rapidly, and it helped citizens understand Americans reasons for the war. In the following essay i will explain my reason for choosing this side.

PROPAGANDA BATTLES Though propaganda has never been a substitute for military strength, extensive resources, or skillful negotiation, it has often played an important role in wartime strategy.(Propaganda,1) Propaganda really influnced both sides of World War II. In this paper I will show why the Nazi party best benifited from the use of prapaganda. Adolf Hilter use it to turn people against jews, blacks and about every one else that was not German and he also use it to make people want to join Nazi army. Franklin Roosvelt or F.D.R also use the science of propaganda to turn people against Germany, Italy and Japan. Hitler had first become aware of propaganda and its uses before the First World War. During the war he saw the effect of British

“The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape site from it” wrote Joseph Goebbel; a statement that Hitler strongly agreed with (Trueman). When Nazi Germany came to power in 1933, Goebbel was a master propagandist of the “Nazi regime and dictator of its cultural life for 12 years”. With Goebbles as a propaganda leader, Germany was able to develop an organized propaganda designed to to manipulate “ a cynic, devoid of inner devotions” and “ orchestrate a pseudo religious cult” (“Joseph Goebbels”). Subliminal propaganda proved to be a more valuable weapon than artillery and man power combined. Propaganda played a key part in every nation 's war effort; though, none were as efficacious as Nazi Germany. Germany knew the power that could be harnessed from propaganda and carefully cultivated, and molded their message to become one of the most dangerous countries in the world.

‘‘The texts and images of wartime ideology and propaganda of Nazism are a rich and revelatory means of understanding why European, and in particular German, anti-Semitism, the source of centuries of persecution, led between 1941 and 1945 to the holocaust’’ (Herf, Jeffrey, 2006, p.1). The posters that were distributed by the Nazis were encouraging the German people to go against the Jews and it lead to the holocaust. The more people believed that the Jews didn’t belong in Germany, the more Germany became anti-Semitic. Germans supported the Nazis and Hitler’s plan which was simply to exterminate all Jews. Although most Germans were agreeing with Hitler, there were still some that did not agree with him so he required individuals who were welcomed with open arms to join the mainstream, and to help eliminate the Jews.

As a result of propaganda, Hitler was seen as a superhuman, or a religious figure