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DIE WAHRHEIT ZU
SAGEN BER DIE
NAZIS

JOSEPH GOEBBELS
NACH DEM KRIEG
Hitler tot

?restoring order.?

PROPAGANDA
Propaganda of some sort had been used in warfare for centuries.

By Annette Guer r a- Ar mendar iz

"PROPAGANDA TRIES TO FORCE A DOCTRINE ON THE
WHOLE PEOPLE... PROPAGANDA WORKS ON THE GENERAL
PUBLIC FROM THE STANDPOINT OF AN IDEA AND MAKES
THEM RIPE FOR THE VICTORY OF THIS IDEA."
-ADOLF HITLER, MEIN KAMPF (1926)
Hitler advocated the use of
propaganda to spread the ideals of
National Socialism? among them
racism, antisemitism, and
anti-Bolshevism.

Propaganda is the art of

persuasion - persuading others
that your 'side of the story' is
correct.
There were several audiences
for Nazi propaganda. The Germans
were reminded of the struggle against
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foreign enemies and the Jewish.

Propaganda campaigns created an
atmosphere tolerant of violence
against Jews, particularly in 1935,
before the Nuremberg Race Laws of
September, and in 1938,prior to the
barrage of anti-semitic economic
legislation following Kristallnacht.
Propaganda also encouraged
indifference and acceptance of the
impending measures against Jews, as
these appeared to depict the Nazi
government as stepping in and

After the German invaded the Soviet

Union, Nazi propaganda emphasized
both civilians at home and to the
soldiers, the police and non-German
auxiliaries linking Soviet
Communism to European Jewry. Nazi
propaganda presented Germany as the
defender of "Western" culture against
the "Judeo- Bolshevik" threat, and
painting an apocalyptic picture of
what would happen if the Soviets
won the war. These themes may have
been instrumental in inducing Nazi
and non-Nazi Germans as well as
local collaborators to fight on until
the very end.

ARTEN VON PROPAGANDA

Goebbels had two main tasks:
to ensure nobody in Germany could read or see anything that was hostile or
damaging to the Nazi Party.
to ensure that the views of the Nazis were put across in the most persuasive
manner possible.

By Annette Guer r a- Ar mendar iz

Films in particular
played an important role in
disseminating racial
antisemitism, the
superiority of German
military power, and the
intrinsic evil of the enemies
as defined by Nazi
ideology. Nazi films
portrayed Jews as
"subhuman" creatures
infiltrating Aryan society.

Games and promoted

national pride in the
successes of the Nazi
regime at the Olympics.
Newspapers in
Germany, above all Der
Strmer (The Attacker),
printed cartoons that used
anti semitic caricatures to
depict Jews.

Nazi newspapers
predictably did well after
The Eternal Jew
January 1933.The official
(1940), directed by Fritz
newspaper of the Third
Hippler, portrayed Jews as
Reich was the ?V?lkischer
wandering cultural
Beobachter?, which was
parasites, consumed by sex
edited by Alfred Rosenberg
and money. The Eternal
who was considered to be
Jew is an antisemitic
the Nazi Party?s primary
German Nazi propaganda
intellectual. Joseph
film, presented as a
Goebbels had his own
documentary.
newspaper, ?Der
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlHVin56U2w
Angriff ?.The ?V?lkischer
The Triumph of the Beobachter?was printed in
Will (1935) by Leni
Munich and appeared in
Riefenstahl, glorified Hitler
the morning while ?Der
and the National Socialist
Angriff ?was printed in
movement. Showcasing
Berlin and appeared in the
German chancellor and
afternoon.
Nazi Party leader Adolf
After the Germans
Hitler at the 1934
began World War II with
Nuremberg Rally.
the invasion of Poland in
September 1939, the Nazi
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regime employed
Two other
propaganda to impress
Riefenstahl works, Festival
upon German civilians and
of the Nations and Festival
soldiers that the Jews were
of Beauty (1938), depicted
not only subhuman, but
the 1936 Berlin Olympic

also dangerous enemies of

the German Reich.
The SS and police had
established Theresienstadt
in November 1941 as an
instrument of propaganda
for domestic consumption
in the German Reich.

acquiescence of millions
of others? as
bystanders? to racially
targeted persecution and
mass murder.

The Nazi regime used

propaganda effectively to
mobilize the German
population to support its
wars of conquest until the
very end of the regime.
Nazi propaganda was
likewise essential to
motivating those who
implemented the mass
murder of the European
Jews and of other victims
of the Nazi regime. It also
served to secure the

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REICHSMINISTERIUM
FR
VOLKSAUFKLRUNG
UND PROPAGANDA
He was bor n on October 29, 1897, in Rheydt,
Ger many, an industr ial city in the Rhineland. I n the fall of
1924, Goebbels became distr ict administr ator of the NSDAP;
National Socialist Ger man Wor ker s' Par ty, or the Nazi Par ty,
and two year s later, Hitler made him distr ict leader in Ber lin.
I n 1927, Goebbels founded Der Angriff (" The Attack" ), a
weekly national Socialist newspaper. The following year, in
1933, Hitler named Joseph, his tr usted fr iend and colleague,
to be the M inister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.
He would then be in char ge of presenting Hitler to the public
in the most favor able light, fomenting anti- semitism and all
the Ger man media. He forced all Jewish paper s, actor s,
musicians, director s and magazine editor s into
unemployment.
He also staged a public bur ning of books that were considered
" un- Ger man." He also lead the Nazi propaganda films.
When the war had ended, the day after Hitler committed
suicide, He and his wife poisoned their six children and then
he shot his wife then himself.

Lgner

Er beschdigt die Jugend

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Er Gehirn gewaschen uns alle.

MEISTER DER
LGEN
The Ministry's aim was to ensure that the Nazi message was
successfully communicated through art, music, theater, films,
books, radio, educational materials, and the press.

By Author Author
After the Nazis came to
power in 1933, Goebbels began to
clamp down on all forms of artistic
expression, banishing Jewish writers,
journalists and artists from Germany's
cultural life. He took control of the
news media, making sure that it
presented Germany's domestic and
foreign policy aims as in terms of
Nazi ideology.The liar played an
important role in creating an
atmosphere in Germany that made it
possible for the Nazis to commit
terrible crimes.
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In his journal, he had the

same views as Hilter.
"...THE GREATER THE NUMBER OF
JEW S LIQUIDATED, THE MORE
CONSOLIDATED W ILL THE
SITUATION IN EUROPE BE AFTER
THIS WAR."
-JOSEPH GOEBBELS, MARCH 6,
1942

He devoted most of his

efforts boosting war morale. By 1944,
Germany had adopted Goebbels's war
plan, and in July of that year,

Goebbels was appointed general

plenipotentiary for total war. He
wrote innumerale articles and
speeches rousing the Germans,
promising weapons and providing
projections of a final victory.
He knew that the end of the
war would be the end of the Nazi
reign.
"W E ARE ALREADY SO
ENMESHED ABOVE ALL IN THE
JEW ISH QUESTION THAT THERE
IS NO ESCAPE FOR US,"
HE W ROTE IN HIS DIARY IN
MARCH 1943.

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