How Propaganda is Used as a Psychological Tool During War-Times?
In his book "Mein Kampf," Adolf Hitler wrote, "The function of propaganda is, for example, not to weigh and ponder the rights of different people, but exclusively to emphasize the one right which it has set out to argue for. Its task is not to make an objective study of the truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set it before the masses with academic fairness; its task is to serve our own right, always and unflinchingly." Nazi forces used this as a method to incite hatred among people against the Jews and gain the support of the masses in World War II. War propaganda, though infamously associated with Hitler, had its roots in times of Alexander the Great and then World War I. It was used by the state to shape public perception in favour of its motives before Hitler, during his time, and, unfortunately, even today, years after Him. I am discussing war propaganda with respect to Hitler to emphasize that the Holocaust exemplifies the gravity of its implica...