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The Role of propaganda in the Nazi Takeover

the masses. In doing so they would accept it as a decree. Furthermore, it was extremely important that the material exposed to the masses appeal to the interests of the majorities, and not address itself to just the intellect. Propaganda had to be popular and be geared in order for even the most simple-minded individuals to understand. Equally as important, was the necessity to give the people the "conceptual truth," but really only spreading the information the leader wanted to disseminate. The Nazis utilized propaganda to saturate Nazi ideology, philosophy, and mentality into the German population, as well as to change the traditional German moral standards (as far as behavior). Subsequently, as the Nazis hoped would happen, the ideas acquired via propaganda would mature into a part of everyday German life. It would become an issue in and out of the home. According to Hitler, the masses must not have two or more enemies. Rather, they should concentrate on one primary enemy: the Jews. To support this idea, the Nazi propaganda reinforced racist philosophy on the "normal" anti-Semitism by giving the Jews the title of "enemy of the common people." Two elements, hatred and racism, were integrated in propaganda to urge the population to find the importance of ridding Germany of the parasitic/blood-sucking Jew. In Hitler’s view, anti-Semitism was a vital weapon in the propaganda enterprise. He insisted that wherever it is used, it has a huge effect, and refused to it disregarded as a political weapon. So began the obsessive anti-Semitic propaganda campaign of Nazi Germany. To achieve their goal, they began using all means of media. Early on, the Nazis began showing very anti-Semitic movies and shows, as did they air such programs on the radio. They were now getting closer and closer to their goal of having the population detest to the Jews, to the point where the commonly seen distasteful episodes in Polish ghettos lead the people t...

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