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Propaganda is a form of communication, a way to influence on the attitude of a community toward some position or cause. The propaganda in its origins was neutral; nevertheless, it had been used to manipulate. For this reason, the propaganda also can be defined as information that is deliberately expressed in order to harm or hurt a person. The deliberate spreading of such information lead to persuasion, persuading to do things that are not the regular scheme of a person which may result affected because habitually someone searches to benefit which is the person in charge of everything, the head master. “Propaganda is communication for the purpose of persuasion”. The perfect example of persuading the people in order to hurt others is the negative propaganda used in World War II. The propagandist Joseph Goebbels, claimed that propaganda should be as accurate as possible, but at what price?

The media played a key role during the war though the propaganda’s minister. Germany educated its citizens to make them believe in the existence of a so-called master race. We consider that the worst part was not to believe this superiority, but the fact that people believed that this was the reality. Because of the propaganda and the fortress of it, citizens couldn't notice the great lies behind it. In addition, Germans believing the lies that media said started thinking that the Jews, Romani, homosexuals and Bolsheviks people around them as theirs friends, neighbors, co-workers, doctors were, since the begging of the war, their enemies. Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propagandist, was able to convince Germans that Germany was justified in the invasion of Poland, France and all other different countries, all this due to the propaganda used to demon...

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