Adolf Hitler began his career as a starving artist in Vienna in 1908. He was later appointed, by the President of Germany, to Chancellor of Germany in 1933. However, from 1908–1922 is when he devised most of his propaganda that he used to become successful. He also developed his extraordinary oratory skills at this time (that he would later use on the German people). During these crucial years Hitler absorbed the necessary knowledge he felt he needed to become an effective leader. Hitler's rise to power was due in part to his ability to convince thousands of German people to join his regime. He was able to convince the German people through various tactics, such as his masterful use of propaganda and his superior oratory techniques that he used at mass meetings. In addition, he was able to attain power during a time of economic crisis and destitution of a nation.
             Hitler used every way possible to attract the attention of the German people. Hitler felt the intelligence of ordinary people was small, and that "all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the member of the public understands what you want him to understand (Ellis and Elser, 779)." Painting walls, and using signs and posters with simple Nazi slogans and images was a ploy that Hitler used as a weapon for appeal. He geared his programs toward the German working class, because he was aware that he could win their support and use them as "material for political manipulation (Bullock, 75)." His programs promised to end reparations, create jobs, and re-arm Germany. Since the people in these classes were frustrated, due to the state Germany was in, Hitler offered them their own brand of extremism, radical anti-semitism, and social respect and prestige of the past to win the minds of the people.
             Hitler learned to lie with conviction, and he was not concerned with the objective truth of an i...