Hitler also recognized that the German propaganda during World War I was full of doubt, and if the propaganda was full of doubt, it preset doubt in the mind of the viewers of the propaganda as well. Also, he thought that the propaganda was not confident enough, whereas the German propaganda was making up excuses as to why they were not war guilty, Hitler criticized this and claimed they should be pointing the finger at someone else, and placing all the blame on someone else; attack not defense. The final criticism that Adolf Hitler had for his countries propaganda during World War I was that the propaganda emphasized a last resort, that it displayed options for those who were desperate for work; in Germany accepting the propaganda proposal was a last resort, in other countries it was a chance to honor and protect your country.
Hitler's Criticism of German Propaganda
Hitler believed that German propaganda was extremely poor, he believed that it was so weak and ineffective, that it may in fact have done more harm than good. Adolf Hitler thought that the German Government did not know how to use propaganda as an affective weapon, and therefore they got the 'psychology' of war propaganda completely wrong. One of Hitler's main criticisms with the German propaganda was that it belittled the enemy soldiers; usually giving the enemy the image of a somewhat useless and comical characters. This affects the soldiers when they went to war, because they discovered the enemy soldiers weren't useless or comical at all; they were unprepared for the war, and therefore they lost trust in all of their Government's propaganda schemes. After this initial betrayal by the Government's propaganda, the masses in Germany found it difficult to believe any more propaganda, or take it seriously.
