Nazi Propaganda

Propaganda was a tool vital to the Nazi Party in order to sustain power in Germany. Propaganda allowed the party to move through with radical and controversial plans without little resistance; propaganda gave Hitler and his party the means to implant their goals of German expansion and the Final Solution. And however ridiculous or far-fetched the reasonings provided by propaganda may seem today, in a country suffering from starvation, unemployment, and a desolate economy, the promises offered by the Nazi Party and the arguments the party proposed acted as a seedling of hope for many Germans. A major component of Nazi propaganda was anti-Semitism. The Nazi Party argued that the stabilization of Germany was reliant on the advancement of the Aryan race and that the Jewish people were at fault for the current disorder in Germany. While it seems ludicrous that an entire people could be blamed for the conditions in Germany, which relied on many different political and economic factors, could be held responsible, the Nazi Party addressed their crafty proponents of propaganda to a populace that so wished to trust in their government to bring long-awaited stability that it was willing to believe in the information its government provided for them. In a Nazi propaganda film, the Jewish persona is catalogued and discussed. The narrator paints a picture of a people who are sly and malicious in intent, disguising themselves and their Jewish background to threaten "the health of the Aryan peoples." Without providing so much as any scientific or historical proof, the film simply generalizes the Jewish people as the source of corruption in mankind. Later on in the film, the narrator says "It is not true that Jews are forced into trade because other professions are closed to them. On the contrary, they welcome trade eagerly, because it suits their character and natural inclination." Depending on when this film was made, this claim could be in direct contradiction with one of the laws passed under the Nuremberg Laws that stated that Jews would not be allowed to practice any profession they chose to. Although the film today seems absurd, detailing how to tell a Jew from a member of the Aryan race, in Germany, during the 1920s and 1930s, people, distracted by their wants of stabilization and prosperity, were hypnotized into believing in the Nazi Party and its aims.