Hitler's Mein Kampf Propaganda Analysis

The following are a few citations that I’ve chosen which I find demonstrate the purpose and methods of propaganda. In Hitler’s Mein Kampf, he describes one of the main approaches to propaganda – repetition. He says, “[The] slogans should be persistently repeated until the very last individual has come to grasp the idea that has been put forward.” This provides insight on propaganda as a technique because he states (and restates) that repetition is a very effective way of making sure the message stays in the readers mind. The next citation I’ve come to choose is, “all effective propaganda must be confined to a few bare essentials and those must be expressed as far as possible in stereotyped formulas.” Hitler is essentially saying that propaganda
He furthermore states, “That it is a mistake to organise the direct propaganda as if it were a manifold system of scientific instruction”. While this is an expansion on what was stated in the previous paragraph, this is Hitler’s way of telling us to forget literary beauty, scientific reasoning, balance, and novelty by keeping it very simple.
“It was […] a fundamental mistake to ridicule the worth of the enemy as the [German media] made a chief point of doing in their propaganda. The very principle here is a mistaken one; for, when they came face to face with the enemy, our soldiers had quite a different impression.” In this quote, Hitler is stating that propaganda should not make the opposing parties seem weak. He learnt that doing so will cause the, in this case, soldiers to slack off.
The previous are some of Hitler’s techniques for effective propaganda. The purpose of propaganda, in Hitler’s terms, “is not the personal instruction of the individual, but rather to attract public attention to certain things, the importance of which can be brought home to the masses only by this means.” In essence, he is stating that propaganda is a way of getting the masses to achieve your