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The Role of Propaganda in the Nazi Takeover As many people who are learned in the field of the Holocaust will agree, propaganda played an extremely vital part in the Nazis' rise to power, as well as their brain-washing of the German population into detesting all, of what they considered, "heretics" to the degree of accepting their murders. Validity of the accusations upon which they attempted to justify their action against the Jews was not …

…almost everything fitting into those two categories was failing, so it was not difficult to take over. Hitler's plan was working very well. In the end though all propaganda was, was another tool in the tool box of Nazi Germany, a tool as effective as a hammer or pair of pliers. People sometimes forget that tools can be used for constructive as well as destructive purposes, just as propaganda was. <Tab/>