Joseph Goebbles was a nazi who was in charge of propaganda and he had a good understanding of how the spreading of ideas and the media could be used to control. The nazis made effective use of the media, with campaigns, radio reports, books, teaching in school, clubs, etc to get their ideology - messages across to the German people. Mass rallies were very popular where Hitler would speak to large groups of the mass public, spreading his anti-jewish ideas, he also used the promotion of his book Mein Kampf to spread anti jewish feeling. Propaganda works by repeatedly enforcing the same ideas, so that people are indoctrinated (brainwashed) and begin to buy into the ideas and follow them. It is kinda similar to the way advertising works today, expect proganda was used for much sinister purposes - the idea of an aryan race, blonde hair blue eyes, germany the great military nation and anti jewish - they were all messages popular with the nazis.
Fear was equally important, hitler had a range of followers known as the SA (Brown shirts) and the ss who would like a nazi military police who made sure the public were following the messages preached by the nazis. Those who did not fit in with the nazi way of life were "eliminated". Crystal Night - or Kristallnacht - November 9, 1938 the sa murdered many jewish people, their businesses were destroyed and star of davids were painted on their doors so it would be known they were jewish. This created a lot of fear, so people were scared to stand against the nazis.
Basically, the nazis were everywhere in the media, patrolling the streets, in the schools, on the radios and this is why they had so much control.
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