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Hitler believed that one great weakness of the
written word was that writers never knew into what hands
the literature would fall. Because of this weakness,
Hitler said it was necessary for the state to control
the press totally (5, p. 470).
Hitler called for the printing of the Nazi Party
emblem on newspapers because he said that a reader who
has been won to a movement will steadily read a newspaper
if he knows it is the party organ. He believed the
reader would read it as a running news service of his
movement.
Hitler believed that the press should be used to
propel Nazi propaganda. He said it should take a form
calculated to support the aim which it served. He said
propaganda should aim to influence the entire populace
but that it must avoid excessive intellectual demands on
the public. "The receptivity of the great masses is
very limited, their intelligence is small but their
power of forgetting is enormous," he said (2, p. 180).
In Mein Kampf, Hitler repeatedly struck out at the
Jews, blaming them for a host of ills that had rained
down on Germany. Among these maladies Hitler attached to
the Jews were lies that he said Jewish writers placed
in German newspapers.
He attacked the stupidity of the masses and blamed
much of this on the press. He said,
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McConal, Billy Jon. How Hitler Controlled the Press, thesis, May 1982; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc504092/m1/20/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .