“Historian Baruch Gitlis has argued that: ‘Wherever the German turned, he met his most ‘dangerous enemy,’ the Jew,’ and that ‘while he walked in the street he encountered posters and slogans against the Jews at every square, on every wall and billboard.” 2/
“Another core part of Nazi grand theory was the dethronement of reason and the celebration of emotion. Nazism felt rather than thought, and therefore the nature of its propaganda appeal was also to feeling rather than thinking.” 3/
“Nazi theorist and proponent of propaganda Walther Schulze-Wechsungen wrote: ‘Many a one laughed at the [Nazi] propaganda ***They did not understand that repetition is the precursor to success and simplicity is the key to the emotional and mental world of the masses.“ 4/
“Hitler understood, as few others had ever done, the need for the serial creation of enemies.” 5/
As explained by a Nazi theorist & propaganda proponent, “simplicity is the key to the emotional and mental world of the masses. We wanted to appeal to the intuitive world of the great masses, not the understanding of the intellectuals.” 7/
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