Persuading someone is a challenge in itself, but influencing everyone's minds is something unfathomable. The infection of ideals was one of the many tools used during the Second World War. The methods differ in propaganda but share the same goal, to saturate your vision with anomalous thoughts. Reading In the Garden of Beasts we can deduce that propaganda played a huge role during the Second World War. It prolonged US intervention in the war and allowed Hitler to prolong the denunciation of his master plan, the genocide of millions of people. “The art of propaganda consists precisely in being able to awaken the imagination of the public by appealing to its feelings, in finding the appropriate psychological form that will attract attention and appeal to the hearts of the national masses.” (Hitler, page chapter 5). Propaganda does not merely influence the minds of its own people; alters the perception of the world. The gruesome conflict between the world's powers, World War II, officially began in 1939. The United States decided to intervene in 1941 due to the attack on Pearl Harbor, but something inhibited the single-minded mind - set during those two years of neutrality . German propaganda is what planted the seed of indecision in the minds of Americans. “I didn't believe all his stories; I thought she was exaggerating and a bit hysterical.” (Larson, p. 54) In the Garden of Beasts Schultz tells Martha, Dodd's daughter, what is really happening in Germany; the Nazis are mistreating and carrying out genocidal actions against the Jews, well hidden behind Hitler's speeches and morale-boosting words. He has the wrong idea of ​​a serene Germany, a beautiful and peaceful country composed only of polite people and... middle of paper... this disgusting feeling. He associated the word with millions of deaths and crucial torture, producing a new definition of the word at least in the public ear. Now, when we contemplate the word propaganda, it is covered in shame and remembered for its use in reference to the Holocaust. He unwittingly clings to a quondam that should never have existed. Propaganda was a very manipulative tool that distorted the mentality of nations. It led to millions of people supporting a war they shouldn't have fought, on both sides of the war. It's amazing how simplistic and biased posters and films, exploiting the insight they wanted you to gain, have been imposed on you as if you were unconscious in hypnosis and receptive to anything. Propaganda was the deadliest weapon in World War II because it started a war between nations, and was responsible for genocides, the deaths of millions of people.