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Translates to "He is to blame for the war!"

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Minister of Propaganda

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Translates to "The German Student" - "Fight for your leader (Hitler) and people" - "In the student union"

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NEH - "Culture War"
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Audrey Doughty on Nazi Propaganda (YouTube)

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Hitler's book 'Mein Kampf' (My Struggle) was so popular in Germany after its release that it became a custom to give it as a wedding gift to a newlywed couple.

A youth group known as the Edelweiss Pirates formed in secrecy against the Hitler Youth and resisted Nazi influence both violently and peacefully.

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The millions of Germans living under Hitler’s dictatorship were brainwashed to the Nazi ideology, and for some needed years to recover and see the truth of the regime. Propaganda eliminated the people’s free speech, isolated non- ‘Aryans’ as undesirable, justified extreme crimes and views to the German people, and showed the world the devastation dictatorship and absolute power can cause.

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Nazi propaganda was important in eliminating opponents of Nazi ideology and strengthening Germany’s support for Hitler. Today, this event shows how a political group can slowly bend the minds of people and assume control, while eliminating opposing views and debates. It is important to know how Nazi propaganda was spread and how it affected Germany in order to prevent this from taking place in today’s world.

The propaganda removed all the German people’s free thinking and replaced it with one small world view. Jews and other groups the Nazis deemed ‘undesirable’ took the largest hit, being mass slaughtered while the people around either were convinced to see nothing wrong with it or did not have the power to speak out.

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Propaganda was spread through Germany during the Nazi regime, in order to bring up morale, eliminate opponents, and strengthen support for Nazi extremist ideas and territorial expansion. Hitler was credited as an “artistic leader” and Joseph Goebbels was put in charge of administering propaganda. One newspaper that spread mass propaganda was the Völkischer Beobachter, most notable for twisting Friedrich Nietzsche’s (a well-known German artist and thinker) ideas and beliefs to correspond with the Nazi beliefs and convince the German people to adopt those beliefs.

The Nazis enforced their ideas starting at a very young age. Boy Scouts and other youth groups in Germany at the time were banned and replaced with the Hitler Youth. The goals of this group were to train young people - boys and girls – in the ideology of Hitler, to build a large military, and to convince the children that their parents who might disagree with Nazi beliefs were wrong. Large parades were hosted often with mandatory attendance and lasted several hours, putting on a display of love for country and Hitler. Propaganda posters were placed to encourage men to join the army, the boycott of Jewish services, and other Nazi goals. To push anti-Semitism through the country and proclaim it as the “right thing to do,” messages were painted on Jewish property and in towns to single out the Jews. Propaganda was even used to convince captured Soviet soldiers to turn on their commanders in order to get home safely during World War II.

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When the Nazis were establishing themselves as a frontrunner for the election, there were many who opposed the strong corrupt beliefs the group carried with them, and many disapproved and fought against the group’s ideas. After Hitler came to power, he needed to wipe out his political opponents and convince the country that his ideals were the best ideals.

During his rise to power, the country of Germany was also in a slump after their defeat in World War I and the huge reparations and loss of dignity that the Treaty of Versailles brought. If Hitler wanted Germany to become a large world power, and if he wanted to accomplish his goals, he needed to bring pride and love for the country back to the people as well.