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How did the Nazi Party convince the German people to hate and eventually allow the killing of 6,000,000 Jewish people and 5,000,000 non-Jewish people **__Hitler__** After the Germans lost the battle of World War 1, there was a world-wide depression known as ‘the great depression.’ Adolf Hitler and his group, the German workers union, had many thoughts of creating a new socialist nation. Hitler would use the depression to show people the current government was not working, and change was needed. Hitler introduced his party as such, “We are socialists. We are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system, for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of the human being according to wealth and property, instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions.” He outlined his plan in his book Mein Kampf, which was published in 1925. In which he speaks of an alleged Jewish conspiracy to gain world leadership; Hitler used his anti-Semitic view and his charming persuasion to get people to follow him. Hitler was appointed as Chancellor of Germany on January 30th, 1933. Germans believed that Hitler’s socialist society would work, and his racist views were true and accurate. Hitler’s German army was sworn to do everything Hitler had ordered, making citizens powerless to change what Hitler was doing. Hitler began to make his own rules and began to mobilize the military in violation of the [|Versailles Treaty]. The German army even burned children, as witnessed by Elie Wiesel in [|Night], “They were burning something. A lorry drew up at the pit and delivered its load -- little children. Babies!”

**__Social Changes__**

In __Night__, By Elie Weisel, Elie describes a list of laws that the Jews were forced to live by under Nazi control. First “Jews were prohibited from leaving their residence for three days, under penalty of death” next they could not own gold, jewelry or any other valuables, which all lead up to the most infamous, the wearing of the Jewish star. Hitler reconstructed the educational system to conform to the new ideas. Burning books from Universities and libraries that were written by Jewish authors and others was one way of cleansing the ways of education. A boycott was formed against all Jewish establishments, claiming that all Jewish establishments were taking away business and jobs from the German people. As Jews, Communists, and Non-Aryan people were sent to ghettos and eventually sent to their deaths in camps, German citizens were content in the direction that their country was going, even with the murderous actions that were taking place because of the hatred and beliefs of those who were not of the Aryan race were in the way and sub human. Another factor that contributed to the Germans hatred of the Jews was WWI. After WWI was over the Germans were in a huge crisis. They had war debts, restrictions, and no leader to pull them out. By starting with practicing Eugenics in Germany, killing the mentally handicapped and sick, laid the foundation to start killing Jews and other non-Aryans in Germany, because they posed a threat to the purity of the Aryan race. Hitler was working toward having a strong society, with strong Germans, blonde hair, and blue eyes.

[|**__Propaganda__**]

The people of Germany were looking for a change, there was a depression and the economy was in shambles. Hitler was a very educated and well spoken individual. He had the perfect intense personality to reach out to the people and have a major influence on them. In Mein Kampf Hitler wrote, "All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it intends to direct itself." The Nazi party used a wide variety of Propaganda that was spread through the media, the advent of the radio and its popularity made it easy for Anti- Semitic speeches. Also, posters depicting the Jews as less that human were also widely seen. Joseph Goebbels was the man mainly in charge of propaganda for Hitler. Goebbels made the media anti-semetic, extremely controlled to only Germans that would promote this new socialist movement. The Nazi party used Propaganda to try to prove to other countries that the treatment of the Jews was not bad once they entered concentration camps. This is described in a book written by Isabella Leitner called __[|Isabella, From Auschwitz to Freedom]__, “There will be a concert this afternoon in the //Lagerstrasse// for all to enjoy- the most unlikely cultural event on the face of the earth…Airplanes are flying over our heads. The Germans are taking pictures of the humane treatment we are receiving in the legendary [|Auschwitz]. The world will soon have proof of Germany’s humanity to the Jews.”

Works Cited Berenbaum, Michael. //The World Must Know: the History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum//. 2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2006. Print.

"Nazi Propaganda." //Oracle ThinkQuest Library//. Web. 18 Oct. 2010. < [|http://library.thinkquest.org/C0111500/ww2/german/naziprop.htm]>.

Wiesel, Elie. //Night//. Trans. Marion Wiesel. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 2006. Print.

Leitner, Isabella and Irving. //Isabella: From Auschwitz to Freedom.// [Philedelphia]: Xlibris, 2000. Print.

//Nietzsche and the Nazis,// Victor Multimedia [|Stephen R.C. Hicks], [|John Barrett & Christopher Vaughan]film. [|www.humanitas-international.org/holocaust/antisem.htm]

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Published: October 8,2010

Reply by Monica Lange: I'm appalled by the fact that Hitler was able to convince people to hate the Jews. It's hard to believe that people couldn’t realize that there problems were not because of the Jews and Hitler was only deceiving them. People had to of know how horrific the concentration camps were and still they continued to turn Jews in, ultimately sentencing them to death. It's truly sickening. This essay makes me think about the media today and how it can make us believe things that are not true and change how we see things.

Reply by Taylor Schultz: I thought this page was very informative. The concept that people could join together to do such horrible things to innocent men, women, and children is perplexing. I now know that through the use of propaganda, and because of how intelligent and what a great leader Hitler was, that it was fairly simple to convince large amounts of people that WASPs should be the only survivors. Ignorance is bliss. And Hitler also took over at a time when a lot of people needed leadership in their lost lives. It is very disturbing to think of how easily so many people were persuaded, and hopefully thorough teachings and information about the holocaust we can prevent it from happening again in our lifetime or the future.