How Did Joseph Goebbels Influence Hitler

The German people had been manipulated into embodying Hitler and the Nazi culture. How you ask? We’ll there were severals ways that they promoted the Nazi principles but their were three that had the most impact; Joesph Goebbels was one of them. He was the director that orchestrated the promotion of the Nazi doctrine. The second way was through propaganda. Through propaganda, Nazi Germany taunted the citizens and surrounded them with their policies and Hitler’s face, sending the message that Hitler is their leader now and that they need to embrace him and his principles. Last, but not least, censorship. Censorship was the Nazis way of “protecting” or shielding the people from what they didn’t know, such as what Hitler’s plan was for the jews …show more content…
Goebbels had the “skills of a master propagandist” and succeeded very much in ‘selling Hitler to the German public”. He created many ways of spreading the Nazi word. “Goebbels began creating the Führer myth around Hitler, punctuating it with huge rallies geared toward converting the German people to Nazism. His day-to-day activities also included designing posters, publishing propaganda pieces, using his bodyguards to incite street battles and generally increasing political agitation.” He did this to gain greater support for Hitler, to intimidate other into following the new rules put in place by the nazis, and to send the message that nobody should act out. Goebbels had a bitter outlook on the world due to his physical disabilities and his limits that were put on him during his earlier life; this led to his hatred to jews and other minorities.. Just like Hitler he hated the jews and he played a very big role in letting the gruesome acts against the jews slide by, he even initiated some. “Goebbels issued instructions for ‘spontaneous demonstrations’ to be executed against the Jews during the night. The subsequent pogrom, often referred to as "Kristallnacht," led to the deaths of 91 Jews, the incarceration in concentration camps of 30,000 others and the destruction of about 7,000 Jewish businesses and more than 900 synagogues.” The bitter man, Joseph Goebbels was the patriarch of propaganda and sadly, …show more content…
It ensured that Germans could only see what the Nazi hierarchy wanted people to see, hear what they wanted them to hear and read only what the Nazis deemed acceptable” The Nazis used censorship to fill the German people's heads with their ideology and to keep out anything and everyone that opposed their theories. They began to control music, newspapers, and all other forms of media. One of the biggest things controlled by the Nazis was the radio. Goebbels created a cheap radio that cost around thirty-five marks. The broadcasts were filled with “Nazi ideals – national pride, patriotism, pride in Hitler, Aryan pride etc.” Since Goebbels couldn’t control what broadcast came in from other countries, he placed certain laws that if you were caught listening to foreign radio you were immediately sent to a Work Camp for up to a year. Literature and the arts in Germany were also managed by Nazi crusaders. A well known rally was the book burnings. “The Nazis and German students also hosted annual book burning ceremonies to get rid of the books, articles, really any piece of writing that was not Nazi approved, or that was written by Jewish authors; even some who were German natives. “students, along with brownshirted storm troopers, tossed heaps of books into a bonfire while giving the Hitler arm-salute and singing Nazi anthems.” Hitler wanted to create an empire and to do this he knew that he would have to get the youth of Germany on