Why Did Joseph Goebbels Use Of Propaganda

Germany, in the period of 1933 until 1945, had Hitler as their Chancellor and Dictator; Adolf Hitler gained these positions of power by manipulating the psyche of the German Nation to form a fascist nation under one ruler and obeyed without question. Fascism is authoritarian nationalism where the masses are benefited rather than the minorities. Psychological tactics that were used by Hitler included how Hitler impacted the youth with education and the Hitler Youth, how effective Hitler’s Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels was, and how anti-semitism was widely accepted and a common opinion amongst the German Nation. “To take away a man’s freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were
Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Propaganda Minister, was an educated man who studied history and literature at the University of Heidelberg. Goebbels was gifted in his field, he had dominated every sector of propaganda in German Society, from radio, film, posters and other media. Goebbels had the mentality of, “if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it” (Goebbels, 12th June). It was crucial that the German people came to believe that the Nazi Party had the best intentions of the people. Joseph Goebbels, on May 10, 1933, organised the ‘burning of the books’ in Berlin in which Jewish, Marxists and other subversive works were destroyed; he controlled what the Germans were reading as to form a prejudice against the people as well as limiting their interactions with authors under those categories. The Nazi Party believed it was possible to manipulate the public through the usage of euphemisms, fear and the mentality of either ‘you are either for us or against us’. The Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda altered the words that were used in the army, such as using ‘service to Führer and folk’ instead of ‘work’ as well as replacing ‘worker’ with ‘soldier of labour’ to enforce the concept that they are doing valuable
In the German people’s mind they all had a common enemy, the money hungry people who caused the Great Depression and their suffering. Jewish people were portrayed as being inferior and driven by self interest in Germany under Hitler’s command . Children in schools and amongst peers were turned against them, propaganda depicted them negatively, and even laws were created to dehumanise the Jewish population. Depictions of Jews were spread through anti-semitic newspapers, films, cartoons, songs, schools, children’s books as well as the exhibition, ‘The Eternal Jew’ in Munich. The exhibition reflected the increasing radicalisation of the regime’s anti-semitic policies. It opened in November 1937 until 31 January 1938; it was intended to show the ‘typical’ physical features of a Jew which included non-Aryan features. The advertisement poster was what contridicted the Nazi’s facists views of a ‘peoples’ community’ with the Jewish individualism; the poster had a Jewish man wearing a kaftan, holding a whip in one hand and in the other was a bag of gold coins to depict their evil, self-centred, greedy nature. ‘The Eternal Jew’ attracted 412,300 visitors which equates to over 5,000 a day, the Secret Police reports showed a drastic increase in the people with anti-semitic feelings and some even showing violence against the Jewish community. Armin Hertz was a Jewish