Hitler's Ideals Expressed in Mein Kampf

Volume One, Chapter Six: "War Propaganda" The importance of propaganda was in calling the masses' attention to certain facts, processes, necessities, etc., whose significance is these aspects being exposed to the masses for the first time. It must be created so that everyone will be convinced that the fact is real, the process necessary, the necessity correct, etc. It needs to present something that isn't known to the majority. In section 3, Hitler says that "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." Hitler clearly knew what the masses wanted to hear and knew that this was his automatic way to success. In the next section he talks of the "receptivity of the great masses" being very "limited"and therefore, their "intelligence is small." He is convinced that "their power of forgetting [being] enormous." So as a result, propaganda must be short and sweet, containing only a few specific points. In Hitler's view, the function of propaganda is exclusively to emphasize the one right which it has set out to argue for, not to weigh two different opinions. Volume One, Chapter Ten: "Causes of the Collapse" Hitler was convinced that the causes of the economic collapse were the consequences of the lost war, and therefore the war, and the other countries involved in the war and after war terms; however, the main cause was the Jews, especially the Jewish businessmen. In section 18, Hitler stated that the "so-called liberal press was actively engaged in digging the grave of the German people and the German Reich. We can pass by the lying Marxist sheets in silence; to them lying is just as vitally necessary as catching mice for a cat; their function is only to break the people's national and patriotic backbone and make them ripe for the slave's yoke of international capital and its masters, the Jews. . . ." This clearly shows Hitler's distaste for Marxism, and emphasis that Jews were the "masters" and many feared them and their wealth. Volume One, Chapter Eleven: "Nation and Race" Hitler believed there were higher (German) and lower (Jewish) racial breeds. He therefore, was convinced that it was against nature for the higher and lower to breed. He wanted racial purity, which was, as he claims in section 23, "universally valid in nature." He feels that the racial problem is the "Jewish menace." Clearly he had difficulty trusting people, especially those with power in the economy. Hitler didn't want to lose the purity of blood because he believed that that would intern cause eternal unhappiness. Since he, himself, suspected his father's mother of being impregnated by a Jew, this possibility may have had an effect on his happiness as well. Volume Two, Chapter Fourteen: "Eastern Orientation or Eastern Policy" Hitler expresses that expansions is a necessity in section 30 where he starts off by saying, "We National Socialists must hold unflinchingly to our aim in foreign policy, namely, to secure for the German people the land and soil to which they are entitled on this earth." He clearly feels the land they lost as a result of the Treat of Versailles was wrongly taken from the Germans because they are "entitles." He feels that Germany will either be a world power or nothing at all, and if it is to be a world power, it will need the world (the lands) to do so. Over all Mein Kampf expresses Hitlers distaste for Jews, Marxism and for the most part anyone who is not purely German. He feels pure Germans are entitled to everything and that the general public is very unknowledgeable and uniformed. He feels that Germany will be a strong nation, but it needs to expand. He blames the economic collapse on the Treaty and other countries but especially Jews.