Hitler's True Meaning

            When thinking about Hitler and rhetoric I feel that they go hand and hand.  Hitler was very successful even though it was with bad intentions of persuading the masses and making people believe him and his ways.  Hitler was able to recruit individuals and bring them into his cause.  He did this by “ recruit its followers from among many discordant and divergent bands, must have some spot towards which all roads lead.  Each man may get there in his own way, but it must be the one unifying center of reference for all.  Hitler considered this matter carefully and decided that this center must be not merely a centralizing hub of ideas, but a mecca geographically located towards which all eyes could turn at the appointed hours of payer.” (Burke 192) By creating this mecca in Munich Hitler created “ division of the attention of a people, and always is concentrating it on a single enemy.” (Burke 193)  By doing this Hitler was able to create a stronger soldier by giving the weak and unstable characters knowledge that there are various enemies that will make them doubt their own cause.  By doing this Hitler was able to make the masses find themselves and support him.  Hitler was able to persuade the masses using his rhetoric and appealing to the masses.  He did the same thing with sexual symbolism.

            By appealing to sexual symbolism he says that Jewish individuals are the rival male.  He says that as Germans the males must desires to dominate the females and when the “villainous jew” (Burke 195) seduce them and if he succeeds he will poison the blood by intermingling with them.  This Rhetoric is very smart on his part because he is drawing on the emotional aspect of his followers and by doing this he is able to persuade them to hate the enemy, which in return makes them follow his concepts and ideas.  The “patterns of Hitler’s thought are a bastardized and caricatured version of religious thought.”( Burke 199)

            When he brings up the flaws of his enemy and appealing to his audience he is able to take the “greater one’s internal inadequacies the greater the amount of evils one can load upon the back of the enemy.  Gives a semblance of reason because the individual properly realized that he is not alone responsible for his condition” (Burke 203) and that by uniting as one they can solve these problems.