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abroader
abroader
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High School - 10th Grade

Does Hitler operate with a kind of brainwashing?

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Posted by abroader on Tuesday May 19, 2009 at 3:05 AM and tagged with bnw, brave new world.

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  1. danylyshen Teacher
    High School - 12th Grade

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    Hitler's use of oratory is well documented as being a type of propaganda and brainwashing. Hitler would give elaborate speeches where he would repeat antisemitic and Nazi doctrine over and over and over. With the repeated information, the German people came to believe and accept his poisonous and toxic sentiments. This might be linked tenuously to hypnopaedia, but the German people were not asleep when they were indoctrinated.

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    Posted by danylyshen on Wednesday May 20, 2009 at 6:16 AM

  2. krishna-agrawala
    krishna-agrawala Teacher
    Graduate School

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    Brainwashing involves repeating a statement often enough to make people believe in it. This was not the method employed by Hitler. In initial period of his political career he relied on winning people o his side by his oratory and perhaps misrepresenting facts. He also relied on political manoeuvres to gain power. But once he was in power he used plain force to gain obedience and compliance to his wishes and commands.

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    Posted by krishna-agrawala on Thursday June 4, 2009 at 11:42 AM