The Power of Propaganda

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This paper discusses the power of propaganda by the Nazi party and how Nazi leaders developed a highly sophisticated and efficient system of public persuasion and propaganda that ensured continued public support for their ideology and their policies. It discusses how Nazism became publicly perceived as a stabilizing force that was responsible for major economic success due to the promotion of nationalism and its appeal to the German peoples' traditionally strong sense of national identity. It analyzes the effectiveness of this propaganda and of the level of trust and cooperation that was pledged by the German people, which is evidenced by the fact that Nazism managed to convince one of the world's most advanced electorates, in the middle of the twentieth century, to tacitly accept and promote an atrocity of such magnitude as the Holocaust.

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"Also, in contrast to the Weimar Republic's failure to deal effectively with the post war crisis and the Great Depression, Nazism became publicly perceived as a stabilizing force that was responsible for major economic success. Furthermore, Nazi leaders developed a highly sophisticated and efficient system of public persuasion and propaganda that ensured continued public support for their ideology and their policies. Therefore, Nazism achieved its political success by gaining, then maintaining, the trust and cooperation of the German people."

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