Nazi Propaganda

In the past, people’s hatred toward other people has shown its effect in many different ways. For instance the Rwanda Genocide,. dDuring April 7, 1994 - July 1994, 800,000, Tutsi ethnic minority was killed by the Hutu ethnic majority. Hutu extremists made anti-Tutsi propaganda implying that marrying, doing business, or being friends with the Tutsi people was considered treason. The FPR (Rwandan Patriotic Front) a Tutsi political party in Rwanda utilized guerrilla warfare tactics against the Interahamwe which was a paramilitary organization that backed the Hutu led government. The FPR’s attempts to take back Rwanda failed and after two years of fighting. The French, American, and the Organization of African Unity helped the country organize
Nazi propaganda included the portrayal of the Jews as the provokers of war within the Aallied Ppowers, genetically inferior, harmful to national health, and an alien race that fed off and used Germany. This convinced the German people to support the Nazi party, putting Hitler into power and situating his plans into action. “Propaganda was as an important tool to win over the majority of the German public who had not supported Adolf Hitler. It served to push forward the Nazis' radical program, which required the acquiescence, support, and participation of broad sectors of the population. Combined with terror to intimidate those who did not comply, a new state propaganda apparatus headed by Joseph Goebbels manipulated and deceived the German population and the outside world. Propagandists preached an appealing message of national unity and a utopian future that resonated with millions of Germans. They also waged campaigns that facilitated the persecution of Jews and others excluded from the Nazi vision of the “National Community.”-
The German people were blindsided and afraid to speak up against Hitler, so they decided to follow along with Hitler’s plans. Hitler made the German people feel as if they were the silent majority making it acceptable to discriminate Jewish people only because of what they were manipulated into believing.
In the same way, Jewish obedience to the Nazi power in Germany seemed absurd, but there are quite a few reasons for this. First of all, the Jewish people in Germany didn’t believe that they were going to be murdered, after all many of them did service to Germany. Second of all, they were obedient citizens that always followed the laws their country has put forth no matter what. Finally, they were afraid of fighting back. Their main fear seemed to be that by fighting back there chances for survival would be much lower. The Jews felt okay with what the Nazi’s were doing because many of them didn’t know what was to become of them. “Common sense could not understand that it was possible to exterminate tens and hundreds of thousands of Jews,” —Yitzhak Zuckerman, a leader of the Jewish resistance in Warsaw” “These sights, like the truck full of bodies, are not beyond belief—we know that they were true—but they are, in some sense, beyond imagination.” -The New