Western Oregon University Digital Commons@WOU Academic Excellence Showcase Proceedings Student Scholarship 2021-05-27 Nazi Propaganda & The Beer Hall Putsch: An Examination of the Shift of Nazi Tactics for Political Propaganda from 1920-1933 Martin Hainz [email protected] Patricia Goldsworthy Western Oregon University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.wou.edu/aes Recommended Citation Hainz, Martin and Goldsworthy, Patricia, "Nazi Propaganda & The Beer Hall Putsch: An Examination of the Shift of Nazi Tactics for Political Propaganda from 1920-1933" (2021). Academic Excellence Showcase Proceedings. 296. https://digitalcommons.wou.edu/aes/296 This Poster is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Scholarship at Digital Commons@WOU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Academic Excellence Showcase Proceedings by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@WOU. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]. Nazi Propaganda & The Beer Hall Putsch: An Examination of the Shift of Nazi Tactics for Political Propaganda from 1920-1933 Martin Hainz Dr. David Doellinger and Dr. Elizabeth Swedo Department of History, Western Oregon University Introduction The Source Conclusions My thesis focuses on how the failure of the Joseph Goebbels, one of the leaders of the Nazi party authored a The failure of the Beer Hall Putsch Beer Hall Putsch in 1923 led to a shift in political essay titled “Why Do We Want to Join the Reichstag.” in 1923 signified the shift of Nazi Nazi propaganda tactics. From 1920-1923, Goebbels wrote why Nazis like himself wanted to run for parliament tactics for political power. After the Nazis primarily used posters or despite hating the current government the Weimar Republic and how it the Putsch, Nazi propaganda speeches to publicize their meetings and functioned as a government. Goebbels wanted to show the public that expanded on their rhetoric and the topics to discuss. After 1925 the content of National Socialists wanted to enter parliament not as representatives Nazi propaganda became more expansive forms the propaganda took shape, but as revolutionaries who would change the current government to which subsequently aided them to by including political essays, pamphlets, better fit their ideals and, according to Goebbels, would save the become a majority party and have etc., in their propaganda. My thesis German people from the corrupt government that failed them. emphasizes the Nazis their shift of gaining Adolf Hitler appointed as political power from armed revolution to “We are an anti-parliamentarian party that for good reasons Chancellor. Goebbels' essay parliamentary elections. rejects the Weimar constitution and its republican furthers this argument because it institutions. We oppose a fake democracy that treats the showed the rhetoric the Nazis Joseph Goebbels, intelligent and the foolish, the industrious and the used in their propaganda, after the author of the primary lazy, in the same way. We see in the present system of majorities failure of the Beer Hall Putsch in source 1923. My work contributes to the and organized irresponsibility the main existing historiography by cause of our steadily increasing miseries.” expanding on the significance of the Beer Hall Putsch and how this Goebbels's political essay is significant because it showed the rhetoric Photo of the Nazi event shows a shift in not only the Nazis used in their propaganda and showed how it differed from newspaper Der Angriff, Nazi tactics but Nazi propaganda the Nazi propaganda posters prior the Beer Hall Putsch. It where Goebbels's essay as well. The broader significance of demonstrated that the Nazis used more detailed means to persuade was published. my work is to show adaptability of the German public to their side. After 1923, the Nazis stopped trying to the Nazi party, showing how they using force to gain political control, instead they used more legal evolved from revolutionaries to means to gain political power, especially through the means of political activists. propaganda. Literature Cited Goebbels, Joseph. “Why Do We Want to Join the Reichstag?” (April 30, 1928). Translated by Randall Bytwerk. German Propaganda Archive. Accessed November 7, 2020. https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/angrif06.htm.