What Was The Role Of Propaganda In Nazi Germany

On The 30th of January 1933, President Hindenburg appointed Hitler as Chancellor. In the 18 months succeeding this, Hitler became, essentially, a dictator. This essay will look at what a dictatorship is and how it operates, how the population is brought to a point where they accept a dictatorship, and examine and analyze the vital events that took place in Germany which lead to Hitler assuming dictatorial power: the Reichstag fire, the Emergency Decree, the Enabling Act, the banning of trade unions and other political parties, the Night Of The Long Knives, the death of President Hindenburg, and the German army’s oath of loyalty to Hitler. It will

The vital element in maintaining Hitler’s regime remains one of the most controversial arguments amongst historians. There are many considerable factors. Historians such as Jaques Delarue and Hans Rothfels argue that terror was the main component to sustain control, whilst David Crew and Dick Geary believe it was propaganda that made it possible. However, there are other factors that are supported, for instance, contextual condition was backed by Ralph Flenly and Hans Rothfels and the people’s consent, as A.J.P. Taylor proposes, was the imperative constituent. Most historians have the same problem evaluating as they have different definitions for people’s consent. “Silent opposition” is the term used for the people who passively opposed.

Back in Nazi Germany, during the years 1934-1945, the Führer and Nazis controlled the German population to his will through various methods and means. This e6ssay will discuss and examine how significant oppression was in comparison to other methods of control such as propaganda, indoctrination in youth and the use of political laws. For us to fully comprehend how significant was oppression in the Nazi Germany, we must understand what oppression is.

One thing which remained the same for almost all Germans was the guilt complex of possibly stopping the horrific atrocities committed by the Reich if enough of them had stood up. Already, “Germany’s economy was in a mess when Hitler was elected Chancellor in January 1933” (Trueman). In other words, Hitler had fed off of Germany’s economy which was already collapsing at the seams. Yet the fact remained that they had all been blinded by the scapegoats they were given to what was really happening. Hitler concealed the truth of his tyranny and informed Germany that “the Jews were the reason for the inner poisoning of Germany and that they had stolen the victory from Germany” (Hall). However, the event was also beneficial as “Germany has largely lost its connection to the generation of perpetrators” and anti semitism was condemned where less than twenty years ago it had been predominant among most of Europe (Beste). The Germans had lost two wars now in which they had been led by a single, dictatorial authority figure. This, ultimately, alienated them from authoritarian governments and began to lead them into democracy's

The Nazis – cruel, discriminating, and ruling our society with an iron fist. 1933 was the year that spouted this abomination of a government, which that monster, Hitler, strove to implement within our society. We can see 3 main characteristics that Nazism has: the use of propaganda, anti-Semitism, and poisoning our generation with his ‘education’. Hitler and his party are able to control the people through influencing us

Sebastian Haffners memoir “Defying Hitler,” depicts the Nazi parties rise to power under the rule of Adolf Hitler, post World War I. Tired, angry, disgusted and confused over the cowardly treachery of their countries leadership, German citizens were in search of a new government. Many turned to Adolf Hitler and joined the Nazi part as an attempt to strengthen and rebuild Germany and bring it back to the great state it was once in. As a sponge soaks up paint, Hitler soaked up the large paint spill that the Weimar Republic left behind.

The Germans used propaganda to make Jews look bad. They did this because Hitler did not like them and he got people to like his ideas, therefore people where so desperate to get out of the way life was then, so when Hitler said he could fix Germany many people liked him and the way to fix Germany was to get rid of the Jews. So they had many ways of using propaganda and they did it every will along with that they many methods they used to make kids and adults and kids think oh Jews bad they need to go. So this paper is how Germany used propaganda to make people think that Jews are bad. Along with how propaganda effect Eva Abraham.

As men were in headed off to war, women took over their jobs and learned the true meaning of hard work as they entered the workplace to replace men in a variety of jobs. As women started working they had to take on many roles that men had before the war. Women finally had their chance to prove themselves equal to men. They took on traditionally masculine roles in production, the community and even the military.

During World War I, propaganda was heavily used to raise the amount of troops the British had. Many portrayed that the war would only last for a couple weeks and would be over before Christmas. This was thought as many of the wars since the early 1800’s, had ended in a matter of weeks. Obviously, this was not the case as the war lasted for several years. British propaganda also broke Germany’s morale to an extent as they basically slandered the German’s. They did this to attempt to draw the United States out and have them join the war on the side of Great Britain. (World-Information.org, 2007) This was one of the two main reasons they used propaganda. The other main reason was to urge citizens to join the military to fight. Some propaganda contained people looking generally happy while they were standing in a trench. This created the false idea that people were happy being at war and that the war would be over soon. In fact, many soldiers felt the opposite while they were fighting.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach. As Hitler said, propaganda has to be easy and fast to understand even to those that are not smart. Propaganda during World War 2 had a huge impact on the people because it got them to join the war to help their country.

“Hitler’s Propaganda Machine” by Robert B. Nelson describes how the Nazi regime used a wide variety of propaganda to widely influence the German people to support Hitler’s dictatorship and furthermore, support the upcoming wars. After World War I occurred, Germany was to blame for the reparations caused from the war; they were in a great amount of debt which destroyed their economy. With this unfortunate situation occurring, Germans supported Hitler’s rise to power in hope to strengthen their economy and country. After Hitler’s rise to power, he put much effort into his Propaganda Machine in order to stabilize powers within the Nazi totalitarian regime. Almost all of Germany’s cultural aspects were influenced by propaganda tactics as well as the reference to anti-Semitism which blamed the Jews for all the troubles that Germany has faced.

During Adolf Hitler’s rule as dictator over Germany, he led a movement known as the Holocaust. His intentions were to eliminate the entire Jewish race, along with anyone else who was unlike him because he looked upon these people as being inferior to Germans; however, his largest target of elimination was the Jews. These German people were aware of the cruel acts being performed by Hitler and his army, but were full of fear and not completely informed so they did not speak out against him. Josef Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, placed countless amounts of propaganda techniques into place through a number of different mediums in order to ensure the German citizens did not feel compelled to reach out to help the Jewish people (“How Did the Nazis Use Propaganda?”).

Propaganda is a very useful tool to spread a message to influence people to support an ideology. That is what the NSDAP, Nationalsozialistiche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or National Socialist German Workers’ Party in English, utilized to spread their message and gain support for their views of German nationalism, supremacy of race, and volkgemeinschaft meaning people’s community. Hitler saw propaganda as a way to pave his way to power and to indoctrinate the German people to follow him, to see him as a hero and a savior to the master Aryan race, and support the racist, and radical views of the Nazi ideology cult.

The 30th of January, 1933 marks the day in which Germany and to a greater extent the world was rocked forever. Why? Because the leader of the Nazis, a nationalist and socialist party was signed in as the chancellor of Germany. His name, Adolf Hitler, has grown to be recognised as one of the most hated in history to this day. How did this malicious man grasp the power of Germany? It turns out that some of the causes sprouted from some of the darkest times in German history…

The Nazi Propaganda Ministry, directed by Dr. Joseph Goebbels, took control of all forms of communication in Germany, of which propaganda and censorship took a large role over newspapers, magazines, books, and radios to name a few. Viewpoints in any way threatening to Nazi beliefs or to the regime were censored or eliminated