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Hello, friends!

Have you ever wondered how the most famous dictator of the world, Adolf Hitler,

had brainwashed millions of people to become his blind followers?

How did this person become the most famous dictator of the world?

Which techniques and strategies did he use to become so?

  Come, let's find out these things in today's blogs.

Another interesting story that I would like to tell you

is about Albert Einstein.

How Hitler Brainwashed Millions of People? | Rise of Adolf Hitler | Sohail khan 

The most famous scientist in the world and how he was treated by Hitler.

Come, let's find out.

The Greek philosopher, Aristotle, had said that there are 3 techniques to persuade people.

Ethos, Logos, and Pathos.

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Today, these are also taught in the MBA in Advertising courses.

I'll give an example of toothpaste.

Suppose, I have to sell this toothpaste to you.

Ethos means that I will establish my authority.

To put across my point.

I will tell you to buy this toothpaste because 90% of dentists certify that it is good.

So you should buy it.

Logos means that I will use logic to build my argument.

Buy this toothpaste because it has Fluoride.

And fluoride helps to fight against the cavity in your teeth.

And finally, Pathos means that I'll use emotions to persuade you.

Buy this toothpaste because the ingredients are locally produced.

Because the ingredients are from your country you will feel proud while using this toothpaste.

This is why you should buy this toothpaste.

The thing is that friends when you sell products like Paan Masala,

there are no logical arguments for why people should buy it.

So advertising companies often use Pathos or emotions to sell products like Paan Masala.

The world will fall at your feet when you use this product.

Show that you are patriotic. (Approximation of taglines.)

Slogans that bring about feelings of pride and happiness in you.

Talking about politics, friends,

a dictator is like the Paan Masala of politics.

If a common man thinks logically and votes according to the data,

he will never vote for a dictator.

This is why a dictator has to rely on Pathos or emotions to get people to vote for him.

If you love your country, vote for me.

If you respect your soldiers, vote for me.

Many people are convinced by these emotional speeches.

But when a logical person hears these he'll ask;

why should the people vote for him because they respect the soldiers?

Using Pathos and emotions only is not enough to make someone a dictator.

If a person wants to truly become a Dictator, he has to eradicate logic.

This what Hitler did.

On 10th May 1933,

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more than 25,000 books were burnt by the Nazi Party officials.They called the books 'un-German' or anti-national.

They had tried to ban several books before.

But regularly, under Hitler's Germany, there used to be bonfire events

where books were being burnt.

Which books were these?

Books of almost every type.

It had Marxist literature, books on psychology, liberalism, and democracy,

books that were written by Jewish people, foreigners, books on art, theatre, psychology,

almost every type of books that, the Nazi Party believed, went against their party

and dictatorship was burnt.

The Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels justified this by saying that

"The future German man will not be just a man of books but of character."

At this time, such articles were being published that tried to demoralize logic completely.

Like "pure reason was all too human and dangerous

and contrary to nature when applied to real life."

"Blood and race lead people to the power of nature."

Pseudoscience was also largely prevalent.

Dubious research papers were being published

which stated that the Germans were of a superior race.

That their blood was pure and the other human races were in a sub-human category.

Inferior to them.

A so-called inventor in Austria once saw the moon and dreamt that

the moon might be made of ice because it looks white.

So he said that the whole universe including all other planets must be made of ice.

He published his theory titled "Worl Ice Theory".

It even sounds so logically incorrect.

But people like Hitler promoted this theory that the world beyond the Earth was made of ice.

The Nazi government also gave an honorary Doctorate to this so-called inventor.

In this situation, all the intellectuals in the country: historians, professors, and scientists,

were being oppressed.

Universities and colleges are the only places in a country where logic is heavily discussed.

The universities were being tightly controlled by the Nazi Party.

To the extent that the senior university professors

of all the top universities were appointed by the officials of the Nazi Party.

And the subjects taught in the universities were also strictly limited

to furthering the Nazi ideology.

If it wasn't adhered to, the professors of the universities were terminated.

In such cases, there were very few people who were brave enough to speak out

because their jobs were at risk.

One rare example was the most famous scientist in the world, Albert Einstein.

Einstein had always openly and publicly criticized Hitler's party.

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Einstein had always openly and publicly criticized Hitler's party.

After Hitler came into power he decided to resign from his job as a mark of protest.

He was in the Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin.

He resigned from that job.

And even said that he wants to leave the country.

Not only this, but he also said that he wants to give up his German citizenship.

That he didn't want to remain a citizen of a country where equality wasn't practiced.

During this time, the puppet media in Germany that was bought off by Hitler

relentlessly defamed Einstien.

Baseless news was published against him.

And caricatures were published of him with a nose like a Jew's.

You already know how the Jews were defamed and criticized in Nazi Germany.

Not only this, the officials of the Nazi Party in Berlin, burnt the scientific research papers of Einstien.

Some newspapers also claimed that Einstein was plotting against the country with the Communists.

Albert Einstein was made to be the number one public enemy of the country.

As if he were the biggest traitor at the time.

The Nazi propaganda minister, Goebbels had printed a photo of Einstein

with the words "Not Yet Hanged" as the title.

It goes to show that there was a threat to his life.

This is why he left Germany and went to Belgium.

There he got security from the Belgium royal family from the threat to his life.

On August 30th, 1933, Einstein's philosopher friend Theodor Lessing was murdered by Nazi extremists.

And the people who murdered him were lauded in Germany.

They were immediately and immensely honored for their action.

Immediately after this, the newspapers asked if Einstein was next.

There was even a financial reward announced to anyone who would kill Einstein.

Einstein had to leave Belgium and seek refuge in England.

He took refuge in a rural area.

24x7 there were English bodyguards with him.

In case a Nazi spy reached England to kill him.

But fortunately, this did not happen.

And Einstein wrote his Unified Field Theory in a no-name rural village of England.

Which we study today.

But we'll talk about this story some other time.

Getting back to Germany, another famous technique of Hitler

was to create fear among the Germans.

To create a fake enemy of the country that did not even exist.

But to use that as a base to scare the citizens.

And to portray himself as the hero who would save the country from these non-existent enemies.

In this case, the bogus enemies were the Jews.

Conspiracy theories were created and dubious news was spread

showing the Jews to be responsible for the defeat of Germany in World War I.

How the Jews were the internal enemies of the country who were destroying the country.

Such propaganda posters were printed.

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which showed how the Jews were responsible for Germany losing in WWI and the economy crashing.

This was not true because there were 1 lakh Jews in the German military.

Of which more than 12,000 were martyred in the war.

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When the Nazi Party spoke about Socialism, the Jews were blamed for Capitalism.

That the Jews were the moneylenders who hoarded all the money among themselves.

But in the later years when the Nazi Party started taking funds from the corporates,