Impact Of Hitler's Propaganda

After the World War I and all the economic sanctions that accompanied it, Germany needed a new leader and a new government. Adolf Hitler was elected chancellor of Germany in 1933. He had plans to change Germany, and among those plans was the extermination of Jews in Europe. Hitler instituted a long propaganda campaign which turned the public to the side of the Nazis and against the Jews, as well as a German secret police, the Gestapo, which helped him rule with fear; Both of these led to a widespread acceptance of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust.
Hitler’s propaganda came in the form of bright red posters, huge slogans, anti-semitic books, distinctly biased film, and large scale rallies. Newspapers printed stories idealizing ‘pure, ethnic …show more content…
The Gestapo originally targeted Hitler’s political enemies, including members of his own party but soon expanded its reach to anyone who did not follow his strict plan for Germany. In 1936 a law was passed declaring that the actions of the Gestapo were not subject to any form of examination under the law. The secret police could arrest, torture, or kill anyone for any reason and without any accountability. The members of the Gestapo never exceeded 40,000, however they could be anyone: a neighbor, a friend, a teacher. Fear ruled as people were afraid to say anything not definitively positive about the Nazis outside of their own homes. Any who expressed outrage or discontent with the systematic killing of the Jews could easily be killed themselves, along with their family and anyone associated with them. The Gestapo followed the Germans into each territory it claimed so they could stay in control after the armies had left. In Germany and the places they invaded, the Nazi agenda was everywhere and ruled everything, even if they wanted to, people felt as though they could do nothing ("Triumph of Hitler: The Gestapo Is