Nazi Propaganda: Rise, Methods, and Impact

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1NAZI PROPAGANDA
The Nazis with the rise of Hitlar used propaganda in order to gain support of the German
after the first world war first in democracy then in the dictatorship. These facilitated persecution,
genocide and ultimate war. The Nazi propaganda had some stereotypical images which were not
new but familiar to the intended audiences (Kershaw 2014). Nazi propaganda was conveyed
through sophisticated advertising methods which employed most advanced technology available
at that particular time. These were created by Reich ministry of public enlightenment and
propaganda of Hitlar that shaped the German public behavior and propaganda. The Nazi
propaganda mainly aimed to advance the persecution and destruction of the Jews in the entire
Europe. These incited hatred against this particular section of the people through constant
messages that they are engaged ion a conspiracy for provoking the second world war
(Voigtländer and Voth 2015).
As mentioned before, the ministry of public enlightenment and propaganda created by
Hitlar aimed to ensure perfect conveyance of the Nazi message through music, theatre, films,
books, various educational materials, radio and the most importantly, the German press.
Unfortunately, there were a huge number of audiences to these Nazi propagandas. Through these
mediums, the Germany was reminded of their scuffle against the foreign opponents as well as
Jewish subversion (Voigtländer and Voth 2015). This Nazi propaganda also encourage the
passively as well as acceptance of impending measures against the Jews in Germany because
these depicted the Nazi government as restoring order in the country. Two east European
countries such as Poland and Czechoslovakia became subject of the Nazi propaganda. It sought
to encourage an elicit the political loyalty as well as race consciousness among ethnic German
populaces. This had misled the foreign governments that included the great political powers of
then Europe as the Nazi Germany had a clear and fair demands for annexations (Lacey 2017).

2NAZI PROPAGANDA
Nazi propaganda not only relates the anti-Jewish laws and policies and annexation
through misleading information regarding the supremacy of race, but also had posed the country
to be working as defender of the western culture. The German invasion in the Soviet Union,
Stressed both the civilians as well as the army with occupation of territory themes. This linked
the Soviet communism with the European Jewry and presented the Judeo-Bolshevik threat in a
fair and understandable manner to the people. These message from the ministry gained support
as this propaganda was launched just after the catastrophic defeat of Germany in 1943 at
Stalingrad (Lacey 2017).
Along with the message of the ministry, the films and newspapers successfully supported
the Nazi propaganda. Films at that time played the role for disseminating racial antisemitism,
intrinsic evil of the Nazi enemies by the theories proposed by the Nazis and the superiority of the
military power of the Nazi Germany. In these films, the Jews were portrayed as the subhuman
creatures that infiltrate, he proper Aryan society (Voigtländer and Voth 2015). The movie such
as The Eternal Jew by Fritz Hippler had portrayed the Jews as the wandering cultural parasites
that are consumed by money and sex. In the films like The Triumph of the Will by the director
Leni Riefenstahl, ideology of the Nazis and most importantly the actions of Hitlar have been
glorified. The National Socialist movement was also been glorified in the films like Festival of
the Nations and Festival of Beauty. These depicted the success of regime of the Nazis in the
1936 Berlin Olympic Games. In addition to these, ‘Jud Sass’ by Harlan was a provocative Nazi
film propaganda that was effective at the German box office and shown at the indoctrination of
events by the Schutzstaffel as well as Hitler Youth (Łysak 2016).
Similarly, the newspaper in Germany used the printed cartoons by using antisemitic
caricatures for depicting Jews. In 1939, when the German army began to invade Poland with the