Propaganda Can Influence People's Beliefs About Other People

To begin with, propaganda can influence some people’s opinions and beliefs about other people by seeing posters that make a certain type of people look horrible, greedy and unwanted like the Germans did to the Jews in World War II. For example, posters made during World War II were made to embody the Japanese nation (Miles). They wanted them to have a different perception about the Japan nation. The posters led to racial hatred and massive historical consequences for the Japanese (Miles). Another example is that in the German textbooks for the fifth grade children made Jews look greedy, poisonous and in some of the pictures they made the Jews look like rats with long noses or poisonous mushrooms. Another example of what a supplemental poster caused is the poster was originally made for a campaign to reduce waste. The poster shows racial stereotyping instead (Miles). These days modern propaganda uses all types of media to get a certain message across (Manzaria and Bruck). …show more content…
Before Hitler became a leader he posted a lot of army propaganda. That army propaganda is trying to get people to think about joining instead of thinking about not joining the army. Hitler was targeting the youth to try and get them to think about joining. Some posters targeted the Jews and when other people saw the posters it changed the way they thought about Jews. Some of the posters blamed the Jews for Germany losing the war, Jews are poisonous, Jews are deadly and many more posters were targeting the Jewish people. During the war Hitler had an ideology and eventually he had many people who became Nazis and their minds were changed due to the propaganda. There are many more examples of how propaganda can change the mind of some. These propaganda posters changed so many opinions and beliefs about how they thought about many different