Propaganda is hard to describe, it takes art and uses it to reach a goal. Propaganda is used in diverse ideas, for instance in controversial issues or used in social matter. There are many different types of propaganda, “ they run all the way from selfish, deceitful, and subversive effort to honest and aboveboard promotion of things that are good.” (American Historical Association ) Propaganda is taking a person 's creativity and using it to sway people to the creator’s wants. The Nazis used propaganda against the Jews. The Nazis tried to break the jews emotionally and mentally with propaganda and they made people’s aspects of jews changed. That change did not benefit the jews and just caused a further division from the world with the Jews.
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The Nazis goal was to exclude different groups of people, making them “outsiders” to incite hatred and cultivating indifferences. The others that were excluded beside jews were: Roma (Gypsies), homosexuals, Jehovah 's Witnesses, and some Germans viewed as genetically inferior and harmful to "national health.”Germans with mental illness and intellectual or physical disabilities, epileptics, congenitally deaf and blind persons, chronic alcoholics, drug users, were outcasters also. ( Other Outsiders ) The Nazis had an image in their head of a perfect race and these people were not in that image. Theref they use propaganda to target those people, to make other people not like them and to declass them. “ Approximately 11 million people were killed because of Nazi genocidal policy” and propaganda tried to justify the Nazis behavior. ( A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust: Victims ) Propagandists tailored messages to diverse audiences, including the many Germans who were not Nazis and who did not read the party papers, to pursue those …show more content…
An American philosopher Eric Hoffer once said, “Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.” I felt what Hoffer was trying to say was Propaganda is just words and drawings and cannot do any harm, what is really doing harm the the viewers emotions. Propaganda makes a person to feel some type of emotion that 's hard to control, but the art itself is just art. To truly deceive a person is to trick or fool someone, and i don’t believe propaganda does that. I believe that all propaganda is is a whole bunch of meaningful art, that the viewers decide how to interpret. Therefor I do agree with Eric Hoffer and believe that propaganda helps people to deceive
The Nazis goal was to exclude different groups of people, making them “outsiders” to incite hatred and cultivating indifferences. The others that were excluded beside jews were: Roma (Gypsies), homosexuals, Jehovah 's Witnesses, and some Germans viewed as genetically inferior and harmful to "national health.”Germans with mental illness and intellectual or physical disabilities, epileptics, congenitally deaf and blind persons, chronic alcoholics, drug users, were outcasters also. ( Other Outsiders ) The Nazis had an image in their head of a perfect race and these people were not in that image. Theref they use propaganda to target those people, to make other people not like them and to declass them. “ Approximately 11 million people were killed because of Nazi genocidal policy” and propaganda tried to justify the Nazis behavior. ( A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust: Victims ) Propagandists tailored messages to diverse audiences, including the many Germans who were not Nazis and who did not read the party papers, to pursue those …show more content…
An American philosopher Eric Hoffer once said, “Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.” I felt what Hoffer was trying to say was Propaganda is just words and drawings and cannot do any harm, what is really doing harm the the viewers emotions. Propaganda makes a person to feel some type of emotion that 's hard to control, but the art itself is just art. To truly deceive a person is to trick or fool someone, and i don’t believe propaganda does that. I believe that all propaganda is is a whole bunch of meaningful art, that the viewers decide how to interpret. Therefor I do agree with Eric Hoffer and believe that propaganda helps people to deceive