Would Social Media have had an impact on Hitler’s war?

No. He was not charismatic enough to woo Americans.

It’s not just social media. It’s today’s computer age where cutting another country off just takes pushing a button.

The Nazis utilised media for propaganda purposes better than anyone. They had an excellent instinct for manipulating people’s fears and emotions.

If Hitler and his chief propagandist, Goebbels, had social media at the time—I think he’d have had half the world happily murdering Jews, Slavs, communists, socialists, and everyone else they deemed sub-human.

The ruling elites and capitalists were far more concerned about Bolshevism than Hitler and the Nazis, with barely any worry of the growing threat until it was far too late.

What effect on Putin? He’s still moving forward with his mission to take over Ukraine. His soldiers are still firing on Ukraine and destroying property and killing people.

I do think social media has helped get aid to the Ukrainian people, and maybe America cut of buying oil from Russia faster than it would have been without social media.

I think social media would not have affected much of what Hitler accomplished, because I think too many Germans were actually antisemitic at the time, and thought they were better than other people and so taking over other countries would be spreading a good life for more people. Also, politicians tried to ride on his coat tails, and we just saw in America how so many Republicans will sell their soul to align with Trump to ride his popularity, and that is with the social media we have today.

If Germany had not turned on Russia during WWII, who knows what would have happened.

In my opinion Hitler could have wooed Americans. He was pro capitalism, a bigot, a White Supremacist, and remember this was during segregation in the South. The South was full of mini Hitlers at the time. Hitler could have marketed himself as the way to get the confederacy back and they would have loved it. There would have been a percentage of the South that would have seen the danger, but a lot of Southerners would have been caught up in the idea, and also people in other parts of the Bible Belt and scattered throughout the country.

In the late 1930’s there was still some economic difficulty in the US and so promised of better jobs and economy would have helped woo Americans to Hitler also, as those promises always do.

The Nazis wrote the rule book on propaganda, and they would have had a field day with Social Media.
And if they were concerned that Hitler himself was not “charismatic enough”, they would not have had to try to sell Hitler. All they would have needed to do is spread fake news about their enemies. Tales about Jewish conspiracies, stories about lesser races committing crimes and raping arian women and children, smuggling drugs into pure white countries.

I think the atrocities would have come to light sooner just as they are now with the Ukrainian War. Whether that would have stopped it sooner, I don’t know.

I’m guessing no friends, and no likes for Adolph.

The trolling would be relentless though.

Had Social Media been free from Nazi influence it would certainly have had an impact on the war but news in the Third Reich, as in Putin’s Russia, was all about propaganda and Social Media would have been as tightly controlled as radio was.

Albert Speer said this in his final speech at the Nuremberg trials:

“Hitler’s dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. His was the first dictatorship in the present period of modern technical development, a dictatorship which made the complete use of all technical means for domination of its own country. Through technical devices like the radio and loudspeaker, 80 million people were deprived of independent thought. It was thereby possible to subject them to the will of one man… “

He would probably use it for finding Jews and Christians to kill them.

I don’t think he was after Christians.

Well over 90 percent of Germans in Nazi Germany were either Catholic or Protestant.

And Hitler was raised a Catholic. As a result I don’t thinkhe cared for religion in general.
But he targeted Jews, not Protestants or Catholics.

@ragingloli I heard that most of the people killed that wasn’t solders were Jews and christens.