Propaganda: How Germany Convinced the Masses

Authors

Tracey Martin, CSUSB

Document Type

Article

Abstract

During the 1930s and 1940s, the National Socialist German Worker’s Party launched a full-scale propaganda campaign in conjunction with their military and political efforts as a means to subdue, indoctrinate, and control the masses of Germany and the European countryside. It is through this utilization of propaganda that Nazi Germany created a political machine that pumped out propagandistic messages frequently enough to sublimate the atrocities of the Holocaust into acceptable responses to the perceived Jewish problem. This usage of propaganda led to a united German identity, founded in a response full of hatred towards the Jewish people. This look into the power of propaganda sheds appropriate light on the psychological impact of repeated information, especially in times of economic stress and war.

Recommended Citation

Martin, Tracey (2020) "Propaganda: How Germany Convinced the Masses," History in the Making: Vol. 13, Article 8.
Available at: https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/history-in-the-making/vol13/iss1/8