of the Nazi party, and not what others had to say against them. He also used every other group and organization for his own purposes, and exterminated all others that he did not need, or felt would get in his way. This was a prime example of power abuse, which should have been recognized and halted way before Hitler’s power became as controlling as it did. There were 3,097 newspapers instructed daily by Hitler and his two contemporaries. At the time, Germany had the highest newspaper coverage in the world, exceeding the United States of America and France. The tremendous importance of the role played by the press in implementing the plans and objectives of Hitler cannot easily be exaggerated. The development of the press as a weapon was the most important single aspect of propaganda as a whole. “Hitler, early in his career stated that the printed word has a magic of its own, and it was not an accident that he selected the poisoned pen of Otto Dietrich to be the supervisor and controller of the press”(The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich- pg. 245). Press propaganda was one of the strongest bases of Hitler’s rise to power and a main reason that he continued to hold that power for so long. This aroused German sentiments in favor of them, and thus influenced the German ‘public opinion’. Hitler and his party used many different forms of propaganda to persuade the people of Germany into following them. One of these was Nazi-Anthropology, which basically means lying to the people about the past of German society. Anthropologists that worked for Hitler would go to other countries and gather pieces of history, dug up from the ground, and then told the people that the items were of German descent. This meant that Germans were the initial settlers of the land, and that they were the rightful owners of it. They convinced and persuaded the Nazi followers that they should fight for the land back from...
