extermination of the Jews.The producer Joseph Goebbels knew all to well how to create a filmthat would not only grasp the publics attention but also a film that wouldtransform them into a flock of sheep, upon which he could lead them intowhat ever belief he wanted. The masses of German people would standbehind Hitler no matter what happened. Why wouldn’t they? Germanpropaganda films depicted Adolph Hitler as a kind, family man. Everyonehas seen the pictures of Hitler walking around with little Aryan children. Across the lawn of a house, or through a field, while the German shepherdwalks around and protects the child. Such a very noble and chivalricideology. When actually the fact was he was starving, slaughtering, and without mercy murdering 6 million Jewish men, women, and children. None ofthe films that the Ministry of Propaganda ever made depicted any of that. Why? If they had, no one would have joined a cause for something like that,and they knew that if they were to commence with the plains of the Genocidethey would have to have the people and its army behind them 100%. Through their propaganda they did, and what a achievement just that is. Tochange the beliefs of a nation.Prior to all of this Hitler had to start the movement towards thispropaganda war waged on the silver screen. In 1934, 413 English per 1000went to the movies each week, 343 per 1000 Americans, and 160 per 1000French. In Germany, only 86 of 1000 went to the movies, a far cry from theturn out that the English and Americans had. Now leaving out the fact that atthis time the German nation was in a intense depression far worse then thatwhich was felt in the United States, and without a doubt most of its cinema’swere most likely out of business due in large part to this. The German peopledidn’t have the money to waste on going to the movies. He had either fix theeconomic problems or make the cinema come to the people. Leaving aside the c...
