During his ascent to the dictatorship of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler mastered the use of propaganda, raising both the public’s hatred of non-Aryans and its loyalty to himself and the Nazis. In many speeches, Hitler aimed his propaganda at Germany’s sparse Jewish population in order to scapegoat them as agents of cultural and economic decline. In his book Mein Kampf, the “bible” of the Nazi party, Hitler wrote, “By defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord. In every mingling of Aryan blood with that of lower peoples, the result was the end of the cultured people.” Hitler’s strategy succeeded. His anti-Semitic cultural and religious propaganda inflamed many Germans’ deep hatred of Jews and sparked a reign of terror against them.

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