How Did Hitler Use Political Rhetoric

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From 1933 to 1945, Adolf Hitler was in power and was the Fuhrer of Germany. While he

was in power, he gave many speeches such as the Nuremberg rallies, the Non-Aggression

Pact, the Speech to the industry club and many more. Political rhetoric was commonly used in

his speeches in order to manipulate the crowds to a certain extent in which they would agree to

the extermination of the Jews. Through political rhetoric, Adolf Hitler was able to persuade the

Germans to think of the Jews as disgusting and feeling hate and fear towards them.

There were many different rhetorical devices in the speech at the Nuremberg conference

(1938). An example: “National Socialism desires to establish a true community of the people”.

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An example of use of falsification is “...we can never suffer an alien race”. That statement is

false because we don’t know the power of UFOs and extraterrestrials so saying that, is just like

acting like we’re more powerful than whatever's out there which is obviously falsification

because we don’t even know what's out there and what power it has. An example of repetition is

used in this statement, “....which has nothing to do with us to claim the leadership of our working

people.” Hitler’s motive was to control all of Germany. Hitler was so determined to get a big

following that he gave out vinyl record copies of his speeches to everyone in Germany so that

they could hear what he said no matter what they were doing and where they were. His

speeches were broadcasted on all televisions throughout Germany. Hitler wanted everyone to

listen to him and gain everyone’s approval to go through with the extermination of the Jews. He

manipulated the German people with his speeches by using rhetorical devices. Hitler treated

them as a nation, rather than as individuals, to prove that they were all just the same and

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