Propaganda During The Holocaust

Throughout the course of history, the usage of power and tactics made by leaders swayed people’s opinions in order for them to stay in power and control their citizens. Hitler used propaganda to convey that Jews were subhuman and used it to cover up murders, greatly manipulating the Germans' opinions about the Jews in World War II. The Nazis promoted a virulent form of racial antisemitism, the foundation for them to target the Jews. They believed, and insisted to others, that the Jewish race is dangerous, and that it will corrupt and destroy the German race. They used radios and news broadcasts to falsely convey to the Germans that the Jews are an inferior race that should be exterminated (United States Memorial Museum). Using propaganda as
Using an innovative method like leaflets, Hitler was successful in trying to put the people under his control. They blamed the Jews for cultural, economic, and social problems that occurred in World War I. They moved the Jews around, and intentionally overcrowded concentration camps (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). They were forced to work for the Germans, and all their belongings were taken away by people who were not Jews, hidden from the public using newspapers. Blaming someone for their losses is the best way to bring someone to a person’s side, and Hitler did that. By blaming the Jews for Germany's losses, the Germans automatically came to Hitler’s side. Newspapers in Germany posted caricatures depicting the Jews, furthering Hitler’s stronghold on the Germans’ opinions. During the implementation of the Final Solution, the mass murder of the European Jews, SS officials at killing centers compelled the Jews to write a postcard home that they were being treated well, while in reality, many of them were killed in gas chambers (United States Holocaust Memorial
News broadcasts, radio, newspapers, and many more methods would be used to do this, and Hitler, with his power, ordered them to do so. He sometimes focused on confirmation bias and information overload, which is when people tend to focus on things that they already believe in, making it harder to notice propaganda (Propaganda). Hitler, having control over the newspaper publishers, made them publish newspapers that would help Hitler gain support, and he used these specific tactics to strengthen his hold on his citizens. The Triumph of the Will, a movie that glorified Hitler, brainwashed the Germans that Hitler is almost equivalent to God, so his reasoning must also be for the greater good. As a result, people thought that Hitler was doing the right thing. After Germany invaded the Soviet Union, the Nazis, to civilians at home, soldiers, police officers, and German auxiliaries, stressed that the Soviet’s communism was like the Jews, who were already hated at that time, and that the Germans were the defenders of the western culture (United States Holocaust Memorial