How Did Hitler Use Propaganda To Promote Nazism?

It is clear that Hitler took advantage of being the host of the Olympic Games in order to fulfill his own agenda to promote Nazism, which according to Caponi, ended up being a “peaceful enactment of war” because all of the propaganda led to both tension from offending other competing nations and also Nazi anger when they were defeated by people who were thought to be inferior to them (Caponi 43). Not only did Hitler want to use the games as a way to promote his ideals to the rest of the world, he also wanted to use it as a way to promote sports within Germany itself. Olympic sports stem from barbaric events performed in Ancient Rome in the Colosseum. Gladiators would fight to death to provide entertainment for crowds. Although Olympic athletes do
When you think of a Roman gladiator the image that comes to mind is a large, fearless warrior which is exactly how Hitler wanted his Nazi soldiers to be. He liked the sense of strong athletes training and competing in order to show who is truly the most dominant competitor. This is why he fully supported hosting the Olympic games because he liked the idea of the Germans embodying the personas of strong Gladiator warriors fighting for their nation. As discussed before another reason Hitler heavily used propaganda throughout the games was to reach out to the German youth to get them interested in becoming a Nazi soldier because they would see how strong and dominant German athlete were in the Olympics (Kass 225). He wanted the German people, specifically the young men, to become more interested and involved with sports. He wanted sports to become more integrated in the German youth to make their generation physically stronger (Keys 137). This was a tactic that Hitler