Power and Propaganda: The Nazi Rise to Power While Germany struggled under the massive social and economic burdens left by defeat in World War I, a new political ideal began to take hold - one that would eventually rebuild a crumbled economy and motivate a disparaged people. Through the use of media and propaganda, Adolf Hitler created a totalitarian state unparalleled in the twentieth century. "His was the first dictatorship in the present period of …showed first 75 words of 1527 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1527 total…must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect" (source 1, p. 365). Thus, the underlying reason to Nazi politics and the root of their power lay in the efficient and smart propaganda. "The art of propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses, and finding, through a psychologically correct form, the way to the attention, and thence to the heart of the broad masses"(source