Hitler's Use Of Propaganda During Ww2

Biased information, often misleading, which is used to promote a political cause or point of view is known as propaganda. During WWII, this was something which was heavily used to influence masses of people ideas and views leading them into following behind Adolf Hitler’s psychotic beliefs. When thinking back to WWII it’s always difficult to wrap one’s mind around the fact that such horrific events could have taken place in the world. How could Adolf Hitler convince regular everyday working citizens, mothers, someone’s timid sweet uncle, that something so wicked as exterminating mases of people from the world was the only way to preserve their people, their country? This question lead to a burning curiosity to gain better insight on the regime

Before Hitler found the National Socialist Party in 1933, he was employed as a propaganda official in the German Workers Party and thought of it as being the most important division. In chapter 6 of Mein Kampf, Hitler’s personal memoir, he states “All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most intelligence among those it is addressed to”, basically stating that the reason for propaganda working so efficiently is due to the fact that the masses were narrow minded, of limited intelligence as a whole. As mentioned before, Hitler’s goal was to create a “national community”, his approach of strategy was to focus on the German citizens who were already “national minded” before he could move on with his plan of propaganda, this of course leading to Anti- Semitic propaganda.

To make their “national community” stronger Hitler believed that they had to weed out and exclude those categorized as “undesirables”, this was done through Anti- Semitisms. It’s important to understand that Anti- Semitisms existed in Europe long before the rise of Hitler’s ideology. During the Middle Ages there were many extreme prejudice views based on this coinciding with