How Did Hitler Use Propaganda

In the early 1930s, the Nazis began production of the “People’s radio”, a cheap radio receiver who’s production was heavily subsidized by the German government. By 1942 more than 80% of German households were in possession of a “People’s radio”. The dials could only tune to stations which were approved by the Ministry of Propaganda and Enlightenment. Additionally, the people’s radio was intentionally designed to have a short range so that users could not pick up foreign broadcasts. In 1935, the German government founded the world’s first public television station. At first citizens did not own private televisions and instead watched TV in public television parlors. The Germans did not invest so heavily in new communication technologies out of altruism. They used the widespread proliferation of radios and televisions to broadcast propaganda. This propaganda did more than simply instill the
However, the quality of their coverage on Hitler’s Germany wasn’t consistently good. For example, in 1942, the State Department officially acknowledged Germany’s plans to annihilate Europe’s Jews. A few weeks later, the US and 11 other countries put out a joint statement condemning the holocaust. This official condemnation generally did not appear on the front pages of US newspapers. I see that failure as proof that US journalists neglected to properly emphasize the significance of Hitler’s atrocities. The American public had little will to fight prior to Pearl Harbor. This was due at least in part to the fact that the media’s coverage of the holocaust was mediocre at best. If the US media had done a better job covering the atrocities which were being committed by Hitler then the US military may have gotten involved earlier in the war. At the very least I believe better media coverage could have saved lives by encouraging the US to facilitate the evacuation of Europe’s Jewish