Why Did Hitler Use Propaganda

During war there are many variables that go into it that contribute for the leaders getting the support of the people without any rebellion. In world war two, Germany rose to power after the treaty of versailles made them look weak and give them the courage to become the strong power they once were. The German public were living in terrible conditions at the time that the promise of changing the outcome and becoming what they once were gave them nationalism and hope that Hitler could achieve it. Adolf Hitler knowing that he had to maintain what the people were thinking managed to use propaganda to the fullest and keep any other sources out from them.Hitler controlled the propaganda that the public was open to have knowledge of.The news that

Those artists that won Hitler’s admiration would be given more advantages to get noticed and famous because of them agreeing with him and not for their artistic abilities. Hitler created two art exhibitions that labeled the artists by their opinions throughout their artworks but if it went against his reign you were under the Degenerate and the ones who followed him the Great German. Most of the propaganda was artworks and films chosen was beneficial to the Nazi ideals and those that disagreed would be outcasted from getting any recognition in Germany. Hitler would choose what artworks would be good enough for the Nazi image that they would be praised for while the others would be degraded to the worst artists and artworks. Focusing on the German artists throughout the war will explain why the types of artworks and films were the most influential towards Nazis ideals because of how Hitler portrayed them to be. The German artists that will be the focus on will be Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Heinrich Hoffmann that have different art styles but through their artworks illustrate the change society had in

When World War One broke out Beckmann served the military as a medical corpsman and witnessed the gruesome deaths of soldiers that made his artwork change from before which he was confident in himself and society. This caused his symbolism to appear in later artworks for society and how people choose what they believe in, effects their awareness in the world. Beckmann did not think of anything that did not happened to him until he experienced it first hand. Max Beckmann was a professor at Stadel School of Art at Frankfurt but in 1933 Nazi’s compelled him to resign from the school. His artworks was categorized into the Degenerate exhibition which lead to having a bad reputation in Germany with the Nazi’s and anybody who follow’s them. Although his paintings show the truth about war and giving the people a realistic outcome of the world. Targeted by the Nazi’s left his reputation to be scarred would lose the opportunities to live there without problems and got tired with Germany’s conditions that he fled to Amsterdam in 1937. Dance Club in Baden-Baden (Appendix C) from 1923, has people at a party dresses in suits and flapper dresses. Two pairs are dancing closely while enjoying their time celebrating something yet is what some people were doing at the time. Since the public is not concerned with the problems