Explain why Nazi propaganda was effective in creating a hatred for Jews.

Explain why Nazi propaganda was effective in creating a hatred for Jews.

Ans.

(i) The Nazi hatred of Jews were mainly because of two reasons. The Jews were stereotyped as killers of Christ and userers. Jews were barred from owning land.

(ii) Hitler’s hatred of Jews was based on pseudo-scientific theories of race which held that the Jewish problem could be solved only through their total elimination.

(iii) The Nazi regime used language and media with care, and often to great effect. The racial theoiy put forward by the Nazi’s that the Jews belonged to a lower race and as such were undesirable.

(iv) The Nazi’s infused hatred against the Jews even in the minds of the children from the very beginning during the schooling days. The teachers who were Jews dismissed and Jewish children were expelled. Such methods and new ideological training went a long way in making the Nazi’s propaganda quite effective in creating hatred for the Jews.

(v) Propaganda films were made to create hatred for Jews.