Propaganda used by the German Nazi Party in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler's dictatorship of Germany from 1933 to 1945 was a crucial instrument for acquiring and maintaining power, and for the implementation of Nazi policies.
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Nazi propaganda promoted Nazi ideology by demonizing the enemies of the Nazi Party, notably Jews and communists, but capitalists and intellectuals.
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Nazi propaganda claimed to have learned the value of propaganda as a World War I infantryman exposed to very effective British and ineffectual German propaganda.
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The argument that Germany lost the war largely because of British Nazi propaganda efforts, expounded at length in Mein Kampf, reflected then-common German nationalist claims.
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Such being the case, all effective Nazi propaganda must be confined to a few bare essentials and those must be expressed as far as possible in stereotyped formulas.
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On 13 March 1933, Nazi Germany established a Ministry of Propaganda, appointing Joseph Goebbels as its Minister.
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Months prior to the beginning of World War II in 1939, German newspapers and leaders had carried out a national and international Nazi propaganda campaign accusing Polish authorities of organizing or tolerating violent ethnic cleansing of ethnic Germans living in Poland.
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Research finds that the Nazis' use of radio propaganda helped it consolidate power and enroll more party members.
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Omer Bartov's description of Nazi propaganda Germany explains the intense discipline and unity that the soldiers had which played a role in their willingness to obey orders that were given to them.
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Nazi propaganda radio was most effective in places where antisemitism was historically high but had a negative effect in places with historically low antisemitism.
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Adolf Hitler and Nazi propaganda propagandists played on widespread and long-established German antisemitism.
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Hitler declared that the mission of the Nazi propaganda movement was to annihilate "Jewish Bolshevism", which was called "Cultural Bolshevism".
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Nazi propaganda claimed the Treaty made Germany out to be inferior and "less" of a country than others only because blame for the war was placed on it.
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Until the conclusion of the Battle of Stalingrad on 2 February 1943, German Nazi propaganda emphasized the prowess of German arms and the humanity German soldiers had shown to the peoples of occupied territories.
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One of the primary sources for Nazi propaganda was the Wehrmachtbericht, a daily radio broadcast from the High Command of the Wehrmacht, the OKW.
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Problems in Nazi propaganda arose easily in this stage; expectations of success were raised too high and too quickly, which required explanation if they were not fulfilled, and blunted the effects of success, and the hushing of blunders and failures caused mistrust.
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Nazi propaganda asked Hoffmann to take pictures so that he could see how he looked while speaking.
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Poster art was a mainstay of the Nazi propaganda effort, aimed both at Germany itself and occupied territories.
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The messages and Nazi propaganda ideologies "stared out at the mass public for a week at a time in tens of thousands of places German pedestrians were likely to pass in the course of a day".
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The visual style of the posters was bold text and Nazi propaganda-influenced colors, it meant to capture the attention of the German passersby.
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The Nazi propaganda regime fostered the idea that the Jews were the masterminds behind all oppositional political forces.
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Nazi propaganda emphasized and portrayed his speeches so that their main points appeared in weekly posters and were all over Germany by the hundreds of thousands.
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Nazi propaganda used radio as an important tool to promote genocide.
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Nazi propaganda's own oratory was a major factor in his rise, and he despised those who came to read pre-written speeches.
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The party Nazi propaganda headquarters, sent the Redner-Schnellinformation [Speakers' Express Information] out with guidelines for immediate campaigns, such as antisemitic campaigns and what information to present.
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Nazi propaganda is a relatively recent topic of close study.
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