Propagand Germany's Role In The Holocaust

The world may never know the true story behind the Holocaust, and the 6 million lives lost during it. After a genocide like this, the world is left to identify who is responsible. It has been evident that the Nazi party leaders can’t be the only ones to blame, as it has been proven that the German citizens also had a part in the attempted genocide. This leads most people to question why and how the German citizens were involved in this Genocide. The simplest answer to this would be based on the knowledge of the information obtained from the Germans who had various opportunities to avoid their involvement in this genocide. Throughout the Holocaust, the Nazi Party used various methods of persuasion to convince the Germans to take a part …show more content…
Through the use of propaganda Hitler’s party convinced the German public that the Jews were bad people, and kept on promoting that theory. Furthermore, this lead the Germans to have a greater hatred for the Jews. Through the whole process of using propaganda, Hitler took the opportunity to build up a great amount of hatred with both groups of people. This in terms lead the Germans to want to kill the Jews, and torture them. An article published by the USHMM community states, “Shortly after the rising to power in 1933, Adolf Hitler created the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (RMVP), headed by Joseph Goebbels. Nearly all aspects of German culture were subject to the Propaganda Ministry’s control, including films, theater, music, the press, and radio broadcast”(“Nazi Propaganda”). This showed just how much exposer the Germans had leading up to the Holocaust. With this information simply being everywhere, the general public, should have slowly built on the fact that the government was feeding them false information. Furthermore, the Germans could have put the pieces together, and figured out that a genocide was happening in their own