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Propaganda Technique: Targeting Audiences
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To prepare for its electoral campaigns, the Nazi Party conducted grassroots public opinion research to probe the needs, hopes, and fears of blue- and white-collar workers, the middle class, women, farmers, and youth. Nazi propagandists then carefully tailored their messages accordingly and hired professional graphic artists to create eye-catching posters with appealing slogans that were posted in well-trafficked areas.
Numerous Nazi-owned newspapers also disseminated campaign messages and party ideology. In this way, the Nazis succeeded in broadening its constituency and siphoning off support from their competitors.
Nazi propaganda sought support for the party from all Germans regardless of region, class, or religion -- except Jews. Defined by Nazi ideology to be a separate and alien "race," Jews were not welcome and became targets for vicious political attacks. |