Hitler's Propaganda

During World War II, Adolf Hitler exterminated over 6 million people of Jewish origin and others who were a threat to the Aryan race and the Nazi Party. The Webster Dictionary describes a Jewish person as part of a group of people who trace their descent from the Israelites of the Bible or descendants of adherents of Judaism (Jew, n.d.). Jewish people as a whole had not broken the laws or done anything wrong to deserve their mistreatment yet “to Hitler, and to many who carried out his orders, these people had been criminals since before birth. They were Jews” (Arnold 11). In the eyes of the Nazi Party, globally, the Jews were to blame for the downfall of Germany. Hitler claimed publicly, that he wished to purge Jews from the entire European
All people were targets of the propaganda including men, women, and children. In schools across the country, little German children were learning about what became known as ‘the bad Jew’. The entire campaign against the Jewish people was tolerating violence towards them and teaching children that it’s okay to be mean, but only to a Jew. A popular rhyme taught was “The rose is red, the violet's blue, everywhere you go, there comes a Jew” (Dinnerstein 70). The films in the late 30’s through the mid 40’s would often depict Jews as subhuman or devilish looking. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 1) Another technique used included forcing Jewish people to wear clothing that clearly identified them, “Jews have frequently been required to wear distinctive clothing so that they would be easily identifiable in public” (Arnold 34). This was a majority of the time a Star of David sleeve. In public, these Jews would be mistreated and harassed to the point of death sometimes, “Harassment of the Jews has taken the form of legal and social restrictions as well as physical attacks on people and property” (Arnold 16). Because of his god-like status, the German people began to accept Hitler’s rhetoric through propaganda. Hitler also ranted against Jewish military service with inherent lies. He claimed that they had not served their time fighting for Germany. He simply ignored the fact that in World War I, nearly 12,000 Jews died for Germany. Or that 100,000 in total served in WWI (Wein 1). One goal of the Nazi regime, before the implementation of the Final Solution, was the resettlement of Jews from Aryan communities sometimes even forcing Jews to send postcards saying they were doing well and happy to cover up the mass murdering