What is Propaganda? Hitler is the arch propagandist of our time.
These are examples of his strategy in attempting to mold the
opinions and attitudes of his intended victims to his own
purposes. Division, doubt, and fear are the weapons he uses
within one nation and among Allied countries arrayed against
him. His purpose is summed up in his own phrase—to sow “mental
confusion, contradiction. of feeling, indecision, panic.” Since
Hitler’s propaganda is a weapon constantly used against us, we
need to understand clearly his techniques and devices—not only
those he employs today, but also the cunning and diabolical
methods by which he and his Brown Shirts combined propaganda and
other pressures, first to take over the German state, then to
stamp out all vestiges of freedom in it. The story goes back to
the early 1920’s. The very name of the party headed by Hitler
was chosen with great deliberation for its propaganda effect.
The little group of fanatical men who called themselves the
German Labor Party in 1919 late