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Essay / Negative Propaganda - 1435
Propaganda is a form of communication, a means of influencing a community's attitude toward a position or cause. The propaganda at its origins was neutral; nevertheless, it had been used to manipulate. For this reason, propaganda can also be defined as information deliberately expressed with the aim of harming or injuring a person. Deliberate dissemination of such information leads to persuasion, persuading one to do things that are not a person's usual plan, which may result in being affected because usually someone seeks to take advantage of the one who is in charge of everything, the director. “Propaganda is communication aimed at persuading.” The perfect example of how to persuade people in order to hurt others is the negative propaganda used during World War II. Propagandist Joseph Goebbels argued that propaganda should be as accurate as possible, but at what cost? The media played a key role during the war through the Ministry of Propaganda. Germany educated its citizens to believe in the existence of a so-called master race. We consider that the worst thing was not believing in this superiority, but the fact that people believed that it was reality. Due to the propaganda and its strength, citizens have not been able to notice the big lies behind it. Moreover, the Germans, believing the lies of the media, began to think that the Jews, Roma, homosexuals and Bolsheviks around them, friends, neighbors, work colleagues, doctors, were, since the beginning of the war , their enemies. Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propagandist, managed to convince the Germans that Germany was justified in invading Poland, France and all other countries, all thanks to demonic propaganda...... middle from the newspaper.... ..Propaganda quotes. Dictionary.com, and Web. February 24, 2012. Mills, Mary. “The Nizkor Project.” Propaganda and children during the Hitler years. Np, and Web. February 24, 2012. Bytwerk, Randall. “German Propaganda Archives.” Signal. NP, 2007. Web. February 24, 2012. “Nazi propaganda.” Holocaust Encyclopedia. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Web. February 26, 2012. Bytwerk, Randall. “German Propaganda Archives.” Genetics, genealogy and racial science in pictorial form. NP, 2008. Web. February 26, 2012. Hiemer, Ernst. “German Propaganda Archives.” The Giftpilz. Calvin, nd Web. February 26 2012.