Similarities Between Hitler And Goebbels

During the 1920’s Germany was in deep crisis from the harsh consequences of the Treaty of Versailles that had lead to hyperinflation and masses of Germans not losing trust in their politicians. The country was in need of a leader, who was trustworthy and would give all their time to putting Germany back on the map. Adolf Hitler soon rose to the challenge to become Chancellor and quoted that he had ‘the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice’ which, in time, won over the votes for the Nazi party, but could not gain the voters all by himself. Hitler’s Henchmen played a massive part in Hitler’s leadership and two of the most of important were Himmler (In charge of Terror) and Goebbels (who was in charge of Propaganda). Their roles and techniques …show more content…
He controlled most types of media in Germany, these types of media involved: Radio, Rituals, Cinema, Music, Art and Censorship. Goebbels used the media to indoctrinate Germany, brainwashing them to support Hitler’s aim for a master race which created a bond between himself and Hitler. Propaganda focused on: isolating Jews, boosting Hitler’s leadership and branding the idea of a perfect Aryan family. His plan to isolate the Jews is shown in Source 9, a poster advertising a film named ‘The Eternal Jew’ from 1940 which compares Jews in Europe to a hoard of rats that spread diseases. Goebbels had said ‘the essence of Propaganda’ consisted of ‘winning people over to an idea’ so much that soon the nation ‘can never escape from …show more content…
At first the camps were designed to imprison Hitler’s opposing political parties or anyone who posed a threat to the leader and his party, with the idea to put them through a few months of hard labour as a punishment to stand against the Nazis. The camp’s relegations were expressed in Source 22, we can tell from this that the camps were very tough and the officers had to follow a harsh set of rules. This source reveals a terrible atmosphere of fear at Himmler’s concentration camps, expressing Himmler’s importance to the Nazis desire to control the people in Germany. A prisoner’s time there involved questioning and torture that was covered as hard labour to the people who had realised what was going on. If the labour grew too hard for the prisoner, their families were informed the truth that their relative had either caught a disease from the terrible conditions that worked in or had been shot whilst trying to escape, but never blamed themselves for the relative’s death. A map shown in Source 23 reveals the number of concentration camps that were branched out across occupied Europe when war broke out, because of this the number of inmates increased dramatically to an estimated number of 200,000 people. As Hitler’s gained more power he began to isolate the groups in society (Jews, Trade Union Leaders, Roman Catholics and Protestants) even further by