How Did Hitler Use Propaganda

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In America war propaganda was used to promote support for the war and a commitment to an Allied victory. A big idea pushed through propaganda was encouraging Americans to grow victory gardens and to save materials. Comic strips such as Little Orphan Annie began printing war themes to gain support. Also since comic books were so popular, Marvel Comics introduced Steve Rogers, Captain America, just to have a character to fight the Axis powers. THe U.S. used entertainment art such as animation to an advantage, and featured war propaganda videos starring Bugs Bunny and Donald Duck around. Posters were used to promote war bonds, enlisting, home efforts, and secrecy. While the U.S. kept their propaganda positive focusing on patriotism and tradition, …show more content…
Since he left school he'd go to the opera or museums to pass the time. At night he’d stay up late reading or drawing. In the Spring of 1906 Hitler took his first trip to Vienna, one of the world's most important centers of art, music, and old-world European culture. He went there intending to see operas and study the famous picture gallery in the Court Museum. Instead, he found himself enthralled by the city's architecture. He could draw detailed pictures from memory of a building he had seen only once. He also liked to think of how he could improve existing buildings. As a young boy he had shown natural talent for drawing.To escape the reality of failing school and to avoid the dreaded reality of a working under someone, Hitler put all his hope in the dream of being an artist. As an artists he saw it as the perfect opportunity to be his own boss and decide for himself what he would do or make. Hitler decided to attend the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and took the two day entrance exam for the academy's school of painting. Confident and self assured, he awaited for the results, but it was not to be. His test drawings were judged unsatisfactory and he was not accepted, and went back to the academy to get an explanation to only be told his drawings showed a lack of talent for artistic painting, as well as a notable lack of appreciation of the human form. Hitler's love for art did not end with his own art, it continued for the rest of his life as he rose into