Summary Of The Rhetoric Of Hitler's Battle By Kenneth Burke

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For this week discussion we were assign to read “The Rhetoric of Hitler’s Battle “, by Kenneth Burke. “Mein Kampf”, is what the article is about, also known as Hitler’s battle. Just reading the title and recognizing from whom we are going to read about, made me very angry, I had a feeling I was going to read something I was going to be completely opposed to it. This article explains how Hitler learned about rhetoric language to be able to deliver his message to the people in a way, which seemed powerful. Burke mentions all the steps Hitler did to be able to spread his ideals to the German population about the “Aryans”. This lead to what is called the Holocaust, which a lot of incident Jewish were tortured and killed.
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