Like most countries who are at war or preparing for war, the
Nazis put together a major propaganda campaign to convince people of the rightness of the war. In
the case of the Nazis, there were two main targets of their
propaganda.
The first target of the propganda was foreign enemies.
The Nazis emphasized the idea that foreign countries were holding Germany down and keeping it
subjugated under the Treaty of Versailles. They also liked to depict the alleged suffering of
ethnic Germans in other countries. Both of these stoked animosity towards the countries that
Germany ended up fighting in the war.
Second, the propaganda was
aimed at convincing the German people of the danger posed by Jews. The Nazis wanted the people to
support them in their purges of Jews and they wanted to play up the alleged threat to their
country from Jews both inside and outside the country.
In these
ways, Nazis used propaganda to encourage the German people to back their preparations for war
and, eventually, to back the war itself.
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