Propaganda in Nazi Germany
The propaganda used by the German Nazi Party in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler's dictatorship of Germany from 1933 to 1945 was a crucial instrument for acquiring and maintaining power, and for the implementation of Nazi policies.
Joseph Goebbels, the head of Nazi Germany's Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
A 1937 anti-Bolshevik Nazi propaganda poster. The translated caption reads: "Bolshevism without a mask – large anti-Bolshevik exhibition of the NSDAP Gauleitung Berlin from 6 November to 19 December 1937 in the Reichstag building".
Propaganda recruiting poster of the 27th SS Volunteer Division "Langemarck" with the title "Flemings all in the SS Langemarck!"
German soldiers removing Polish government insignia in Gdynia soon after the invasion of Poland in 1939
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. During his dictatorship, he initiated the European theatre of World War II by invading Poland on 1 September 1939. He was closely involved in military operations throughout the war and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust: the genocide of about six million Jews and millions of other victims.
Official portrait, 1938
Hitler as an infant (c. 1889–90)
Hitler's father, Alois, c. 1900
Hitler's mother, Klara, 1870s
