• Cheap radios
• 1933 Dachau concentration camp opened
• Berlin Olympics
Amongst other factors, propaganda was the overriding most important factor for the Nazis gaining control for three key reasons: the ‘brainwashing effect’ it created, the organised and efficient controller of it in Goebbels, and finally the balance between messages of the Nazis as a strong, powerful, anti-Semitism party and a party with the best interests of the people in mind.
The three main factors mentioned above worked so well for the Nazis gaining control mainly because of the way they worked together so well together with each factors linking to the next. First there is the ‘brainwashing effect’ created with the constant repetition of Nazi messages through various forms of media, which we can infer made the majority of the German people believe in the Nazis because when something is repeated so much chances are the message will ‘stick in your head’. However the Nazis also had to balance messages of power and peace to appeal to different audiences be it women and the working class to ex-soldiers and extremists. Both of these factors worked well because of Goebbels clever propaganda which worked like a well-oiled machine, linking to how all these reasons were connected, and this inevitably led to the well-organised propaganda being such an important factor in the Nazis gaining control, starting with convincing the people in their own country that they were the party to support.
When looking at smaller events and reasons, cheap radios were a big factor in helping the Nazis to gain control, and in a more ‘subtle’ way. The fact that radios were cheap allowed people with all incomes to buy them so the message could be spread even further, and we can infer that the fact Nazi radio broadcasts unavoidable in public added to the ‘brainwashing effect’. As the Nazis didn’t force people to listen to broadcasts only made it very hard for them not