Why Did Joseph Goebbels Use Of Propaganda

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Short Stories can have a good or bad influences. It depends on the general situation to whom it is referring to. During World War II the propaganda directed towards the pure hatred of the “inferior races,” in Europe such as Jews, Gypsies, people with disabilities, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah's Witnesses and homosexuals. Across seas propaganda was on the flip side, trying to build support for the war and to promote nationalism for the country. It all depended on your location, and which side you wanted to take.
When the Third Reich was gaining all of their supporters they were able to have a public body to help publicize their beliefs. The Nazis were able to convince the German people that the economic depression in World War I was not the result of governmental failure, but was instead the fault of immigrants, communists, and the other “inferiors” who were weakening the country. They
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This was Hitler’s right hand man, and this is the man who ultimately brainwashed everyone. Goebbels promoted the Nazi message through art, music, theater, films, books, radio, and the press. Goebbels worked to inflame the anger of Germans over their defeat in World War I and emphasized German cultural and military achievements to boost national pride. He had the same idea as America, with gaining national pride, it's just they were nowhere close to being the same. I strongly disagree with his usage of propaganda and with him creating it. Most of the time propaganda has negative effects because it is a very one sided and convinces the minds of the followers what's right and wrong in the writer's opinion. This brings disputes between the groups targeted because then no one knows who really has the right answer. The overall message was for nationalism, but if Goebbels propaganda never got released then I truly feel the Holocaust would have never happened. There would’ve been not enough supporters and the Third Reich would have

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