How Did Nazism Affect the People Through Propaganda?

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How did Nazism affect the people through propaganda? Propaganda: Nazi propaganda was essential during the period 1933-39 as it had a huge impact on the German population. Propaganda was used to reinforce the national community together and convey the message of acceptance towards his/her assigned role. Various propaganda images and campaigns were implemented to achieve this sense of national unity and equality regardless of social class and occupation. Through Hitler’s government, all sorts of communications were restricted; everything had to be approved by the authorities to conform to Nazi ideology. Joseph Goebbels was in charge of the propaganda ministry, and he used all means to conserve the Hitler’s myth and promote Nazi value through the use of media about racial purity, anti-Semitism, anti-communism, the cult of the Fuhrer and the appeal of the Volsgemeinschaft. Goebbels propaganda controlled, altered and restricted the press, the radio, literature, music, theatre, art and the cinema from the population of Germany, to ensure that nobody in Germany could read or see anything that was hostile or damaging to Nazi Party, and to persuade the views of the Nazi to its country. In order for the people of Germany to be in complete control under Hitler, Goebbels altered the psychological social landscape of Germany and states that, “It was not enough that German’s should acquiesce to The Third Reich; they must support it with all their heart and soul”. The ministry took matters further into their own hands and manufactured a cheap radiogram that all Germans could afford and own in order to hear Nazi propaganda. The production of motion picture films bought entertainment to the citizens of Germany and at the same time informed the public about Nazi values. Library books which were seen as anti-Nazi were destroyed as they were deemed unacceptable, this caused a
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