We can surely all agree that the Third Reich and Nazi Germany was something we never want to witness again and certainly do not want to experience. The atrocities that occurred under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler are too numerous to count. Fear and hate were used by Hitler to immobilize his enemies and mobilize the German people. The greatest war machine weapon he employed was propaganda. Joseph Goebbels, the father of propaganda, developed techniques that he called tools to win the hearts and minds of the German people. He listed seven ways to convince people to believe his propaganda: