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By Nico Cannone
“Think of the press as a
great keyboard on which
the government can play.”
– joseph goebbels,
Nazi propaganda minister
For thousands of years, controlling a population has
been the bane of governments all over the world.
Many used extreme violence, others used secret
police, and some even used starvation as methods
of forcing their own people into submission.
Unsurprisingly, these methods had consequences,
because people have a tendency to unite against their
oppressors and eventually overthrow them. It wasn’t
until the start of the 20th century that a revolutionary method was conceived to counter the power of
the people. Instead of forcing them into submission
with abuse, governments learned how to convince
the people to submit with words and ideas. When it
came to implementing this new method, no regime
was as thorough and efficient as Nazi Germany.
The Nazis were pioneers in the art of shaping public
opinion in order to achieve their goals. The Catholic Church even coined a term for this new form of
control: they called it propaganda.
Propaganda is defined as “information, especially
if misleading in nature, used to promote a specific
political view or cause.” Germany was not the first
nor the last nation to use propaganda to control
their people. Around the world, politicians used
newspapers and radio to influence the masses,
but their methods were sloppy, and their agendas
were much smaller in scale. The Nazis however,
learned to perfect the use and distribution of
propaganda, convincing an entire nation to
endorse the mass murder of Jews, and to fight a
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