Essays on Nazi Propaganda

There is a difference between propaganda and public relations because propaganda is mostly used by institutions who want to improve their public image by indoctrinating the masses. Public relations are also used to take care of the public image of a certain institution and it is done by communication’s specialists. The difference between propaganda and public relations lies in the fact that propaganda is used to persuade people about certain political effects, while public relations are used to promote the significance of a company or a person in the public in order to increase their popularity. Everybody uses ...

Introduction

According to Jowett & O’Donnell (1), propaganda is a method of communication which tries to elicit a response that propagates the desired intention of the propagandist. The art of propaganda has been studied in an array of multidisciplinary researches in the fields of journalism, sociology, history, political science and psychology. To study the art of propaganda as history means examining propagandist practices as distinct events and the resultant events as likely effects of propaganda. Nazi films were predominantly propagandist in that they aimed at influencing attitudes on life in a given context, and in terms of particular people and events. Perhaps the ...

Essay for Lesson 5: Hitler and the Aestheticization of Politics

Introduction One of the reasons behind the success of the Nazi Party in taking over Germany is on its extensive use of propaganda. Adolf Hitler, known for his penchant for populism, rendered the strong impact of images, films and other materials attributed to Nazism as essential for the political success of the Nazi Party and its agenda for Germany. As an authoritarian leader, Hitler saw the importance of extracting the patronage of the Germans not through forceful means, but through convincing and motivating measures that enticed their mental faculties. To make such a vision possible, Hitler commissioned the talents of ...

Literature Review

Literature Review Hitler Youth presents a comprehensive account of HitlerJugend by revisiting the origin of the idea of the HitlerJugend and the situation in the pre-WWII. The book describes the interwar time in the Weimar Republic. The author of this book notes that there existed numerous youth leagues of varied types that joined to change the national politics. Particularly, he argues that these leagues provided the foundation for the establishment of the Hitlerjugend, the league that caused a great impact on the national politics. Kater provides an exclusive review of the governance and the objectives of the Nazi Youth Leadership. ...

Introduction

The Holocaust, a Greek work, meaning 'killed by fire', refers to the systematic mass persecution and genocide of the Jews executed by the Nazi Party under the leadership of Adolf Hitler throughout Germany and German occupied territories across Europe. Jews were not the only victims of the holocaust, which claimed the lives of millions other including disabled people, gypsies, homosexuals and the war prisoners. Infamous for bringing the Jewish race near extermination, the holocaust accounts for the loss of the lives of "eleven million innocent victims" in total, including about 6 million Jews and 5 million non-Jewish Nazi victims. The ...

Nazi Propaganda Themes from The 1930s

Propaganda is the dissemination of biased or misleading information. It is a tool used to influence large groups of people so as to promote a political cause. The Nazi regime, which was an authoritarian regime, used propaganda to ensure that power was consolidated in the party. One of the main themes of Nazi propaganda was the theme of appeal to national unity. This was based upon the principle ‘The community before the individual’. It allowed the Nazis to consolidate power and ensure that their aims were coordinated with those of the German people. The propaganda of national unity was to help ...

The Nazis, in the true spirit of their time, grew a massive in-house propaganda machine over the course of their short reign in Germany. They did this using many different media, including print, film, and simple word-of-mouth. In this paper, we will look at the various ways they used propaganda to sway opinion in their favor and to convey their message to their audience, the German civilian population. 1. Plan of Investigation How best do we go about gathering information on the topic? One way is to gather the key media they were using to convey the propaganda ...

Introduction

Hitler created anti-Semitic laws and policies in 1933-45 because his entire career in politics from 1919 until his suicide in 1945 was based on a racist and anti-Semitic worldview (Weltanschauung) as well as 19th Century Social Darwinism and the belief that some individuals and races were supermen and others subhuman or Untermenschen. Certainly he never made any secret of his ideology, which could be found in Mein Kampf and his other writings. He ordered the extermination of the handicapped and mentally ill in Germany in 1939, which continued up to the end of the war and many of the personnel ...