“In what ways and to what extent was propaganda important in the rise and rule of Hitler?”
Propaganda is the art of persuasion and one of the common strategies used by Hitler in Nazi Germany in order to maintain his role as a leader, which played a significant role in the maintenance of his power however, Hitler also used force to accomplish his goals in reaching a perfect race.
In Nazi Germany Joseph Goebbels was in charge of propaganda. He was the minister of Propaganda and National Enlightenment. As a National Enlightenment Joseph Goebbels had two main tasks to ensure that nobody in Germany could read or find out anything unpleasant or damaging about the Nazi Party, to ensure that the views of the Nazis were put across in the most persuasive …show more content…
The Night of The Broken Glass otherwise known as “kristallnacht” occurred on the night of 9th of November, 1938. Violence against Jews broke out across the Reich. German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and other Nazis carefully organized the pogroms. In 2 days over 250 synagogues were burned, over 7,000 Jewish businesses were trashed and looted, dozens of Jewish people were killed, and Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, schools and homes were looted. The pogroms became known as Kristallnacht the Night of the Broken Glass for the shattered glass from the store windows that littered streets. The morning after the tragedy of pogroms 30,000 German Jewish men were arrested for the “crime” of being Jewish and sent to concentration camps, were hundreds of them were kept starved and perished. Curfews were placed on Jews, limiting the hours of the day they could leave their homes. The Nazis despised many groups which they thought were “racially or socially inferior.” They called those people “Germs of Destruction”. Groups which were persecuted and killed were Jews, such as Anne Frank who was forced into walled ghettos, put into concentration camps and used for medical experiments. In the end Nazis devised the final solution of genocides which was the Holocaust. As well as Jews 85% of Germany’s Gypsies were killed, black people were sterilized and killed, 5000 mentally disabled babies were killed in 1939-45, 72,00 mentally ill patients were killed, physically disabled people and families with hereditary illness were sterilized, beggars, homosexuals, prostitutes, alcoholics, hooligans and criminals were regarded as anti-social and they were put in concentration
Propaganda is the art of persuasion and one of the common strategies used by Hitler in Nazi Germany in order to maintain his role as a leader, which played a significant role in the maintenance of his power however, Hitler also used force to accomplish his goals in reaching a perfect race.
In Nazi Germany Joseph Goebbels was in charge of propaganda. He was the minister of Propaganda and National Enlightenment. As a National Enlightenment Joseph Goebbels had two main tasks to ensure that nobody in Germany could read or find out anything unpleasant or damaging about the Nazi Party, to ensure that the views of the Nazis were put across in the most persuasive …show more content…
The Night of The Broken Glass otherwise known as “kristallnacht” occurred on the night of 9th of November, 1938. Violence against Jews broke out across the Reich. German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and other Nazis carefully organized the pogroms. In 2 days over 250 synagogues were burned, over 7,000 Jewish businesses were trashed and looted, dozens of Jewish people were killed, and Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, schools and homes were looted. The pogroms became known as Kristallnacht the Night of the Broken Glass for the shattered glass from the store windows that littered streets. The morning after the tragedy of pogroms 30,000 German Jewish men were arrested for the “crime” of being Jewish and sent to concentration camps, were hundreds of them were kept starved and perished. Curfews were placed on Jews, limiting the hours of the day they could leave their homes. The Nazis despised many groups which they thought were “racially or socially inferior.” They called those people “Germs of Destruction”. Groups which were persecuted and killed were Jews, such as Anne Frank who was forced into walled ghettos, put into concentration camps and used for medical experiments. In the end Nazis devised the final solution of genocides which was the Holocaust. As well as Jews 85% of Germany’s Gypsies were killed, black people were sterilized and killed, 5000 mentally disabled babies were killed in 1939-45, 72,00 mentally ill patients were killed, physically disabled people and families with hereditary illness were sterilized, beggars, homosexuals, prostitutes, alcoholics, hooligans and criminals were regarded as anti-social and they were put in concentration