Nazi Movies and their Purpose Analytical Essay

Don DeLillo in Running Dog said, “Those Nazis had a thing for movies. They put everything on film […]. Film was essential to the Nazi era. Myth, dreams, memory” (52). The phrase perfectly underlines the situation which happened in Germany during Nazi regime.

Movies have become the priority for the country. Even money and income were not that attractive and important as movies. Whys did it happen? What were the reasons for the increase of the interest in the movies during the Nazi regime? All these questions are going to be answered here.

There is a great value in the Nazi movies as during this era Hitler and his supporters needed to manipulate others applying to the propaganda via mass media and choosing the movies Hitler was sure to support the interest of people in this particular way of insertion of necessary ideas in the nation.

It is easy to follow the increase of the movies production in the Nazi Germany with the beginning of the regime. The main reason for this is propaganda. Nazi rulers wanted to manipulate people and their thoughts, that is why the choice of the mass methods for this may be considered as the best one.

People were interested in movies, there is no need to make them watch those and the propaganda ideas were really powerful there. Germans came very seriously to the movie production as the quality of the movies and ideas presented there were really important for the realization of the Hitler plan. Hitler wanted to make sure that all people in the country do not have doubts in the strength of the nation and in the possibility to win.

Hitler Youth Quex (1933) is the movie about the conflict between Communist father and Hitler directed son. At the end of the movie Hitler ideology wins. Kopf Hoch, Johannes! (1941) and Triumph des Willens/Triumph of the Will (1934) were the best propaganda movies which showed that Nazi nation was the best in the world and it deserved victory and occupation in other countries.

One of the main ideas Nazi cinematography wanted to deliver to people was that the nation was one of the most powerful in the world and they deserved ruling other nations applying their great totalitarian systems which gave them opportunity to reach the highest power.

Moreover, the movies showed the heroism and strength of the soldiers in Nazi army who gave their lives for the benefit of the whole nation being proud to serve the country in such a way.

In conclusion, it should be stated that the importance of the Nazi movies was to make people think in the way Hitler wanted. The politics of the country was to help all citizens think in the way they needed. NO one had to think another way round. It was inadmissible for others to doubt Hitler and his ways of running business and politics.

The overwhelming subjection to Nazi politics, absence of the personal point of view and the consideration of the Nazi nation as the only deserving one in the world was the main purpose of them propaganda movies.

To make sure that the whole nation has one and the point of view, the possibility to manipulate people and the desire to make sure that any time people are able to do all possible to help Hitler and his army win, the movies were full of patriotic ideas.

Works Cited

DeLillo, Don. Running Dog. London: Pan Macmillan, 2011. Print.