Nazi Germany's Propaganda Machine: The Rise

Abstract

Peculiarities in German history led to the emergence of a 'special path' (Sonderweg), which was represented by the rise and rise of Adolf Hitler. Because Hitler's 'shadow' was so large, and stretched in technique, approach, ascension, and plan, it shaped the diversity of interpretations of this phenomenon. Nazism was the product of unique features of German history and culture, of political developments different from the rest of the states on the European continent. The character of Adolf Hilter cannot be understood if we use an isolated reflection on what the demagogue, the mob agitator, and the dictator of the Third Reich meant. However, those who follow this path isolated by other means, will reach a conclusion that will be false, and will lead to the "isolation" of this phenomenon from what the sphere of everyday life and unimportant elements means, such as the banal, thus losing it the meaning. Hitler's dictatorship is shaped by premises related to his life, the environment from which he came, education, aspirations, and dreams that dominated the character of the young man, then the soldier, and, finally, the leader Adolf Hitler. This paper is a guide that provides a vision that brings together the opinions and arguments of both specialists and a reflection built from articles, and documents on one of the abnormally and historically interesting characters of the personality that in 1938 was declared by TIME magazine, Man of the Year, who was at the same time dictator, "demon" and demagogue. It is an attempt to understand the one who excited a nation and gradually came into conflict with an entire world. The creation of powerful myths, which, together with the propaganda carefully orchestrated by Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda in the Reich, led to the animation of crowds numbering millions of Germans who were fascinated by him and the Nazi movement.