     In the text, “The Rhetoric of Hitler’s Battle” Kenneth Burke’s overall project is to give readers information that is historically accurate, informing readers about Hitler and his rhetoric. 

The text has several key points that analyze viable parts of Mein Kampf section by section. This essay will give an overview of a specific section on page 35 Kenneth Burke goes into depth about Hitler’s specific aim at the Jewish population of Germany he was trying to rid the country of, and the religious propaganda he used, to analyze the effectiveness of his technique.  Burke reveals his aim in this section of the text as deciphering the methods Hitler used through religion to create and image of the Jewish people being hated by God as well; limits in the section would not be seen as the limits of Burke but Hitler. The overall purpose of the essay and Kenneth Burke’s deciphering of Mein Kampf, is to have an in depth analysis from a perspective along with Burke’s. His analysis raised a few questions that are critical to the essay because of the ideologies that they present that were instilled in Hitler and through the reading of Mein Kampf.

       Kenneth Burke goes into depth with the details of Hitler’s practices and ideologies pushed on the German population, specifically in this section involving the theories he created. Burke begins to decipher Hitler's meaning and complete alienation of the Jewish population. Here he goes into close detail, "As everyone knows, this policy was exemplified in his selection of "international" devil, the "international Jew"(Burke 35). This quote is located in a different section of “The Rhetoric of Hitler’s Battle”, from the direct passage where a majority of this information is being taken from, but includes the valid viewpoint of Hitler ironically villainizing a religious group of people as devils adds to the fuel of the meaning and interpretation of the section. The given ideas villainizing the Jewish population for all of the internal issues of Germany were all created by one person who in all actuality was of Jewish heritage and background. His hatred for his own people turned into a perspective illness that got out of hand swiftly and spread as fast as it got out of hand. “The rival male, the villainous Jew, would on the contrary “seduce” them. If he succeeds, he poisons them blood by intermingling with them”, by creating a perception that the Jewish man was a sort of con-artist and any other person, man, woman, or child that he has seduced is now poisoned, which would begin to spread among the pure Aryan race (Burke 35). He later goes on to pull out the beliefs of pure hatred towards the Jewish population, "...his slogan: "I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator: By warding off Jews I am fighting for the Lord's work", the intensity in the belief of Anti-Semitism to blame for all war and hatred, the use of this information creates a close insight for readers instead of a broad overview of this part of Mein Kampf (Burke 37). The importance of this insight to readers is it allows them to get a detailed analysis of what Hitler used to sway his followers outside of the fear factor, he used mental and emotional points to attract them as well.

       Kenneth Burke’s aim for the passage is clearly to get readers to understand what Hitler is reaching to accomplish through the poisoning of the Jewish population, in the minds of his Aryan people. They were swayed easily through his use of words and pushing of ideologies to cause the harsh persuasion of the German population. The aim of Kenneth Burke helps readers with the ability to decipher Hitler’s meaning through the key points in his political teachings towards his millions of followers. His aim accomplishes the thoughts of independent analysis and being able to interpret the ideas trying to be pushed by Hitler. The use of religion by Hitler gave him an unfair advantage towards the Jewish Population, because he boldly appointed himself as a figure close to God, one of God’s right hand men in an aspect. “This materialization of a religious pattern is, I think, one terrifically effective weapon of propaganda in a period where religion has been progressively weakened by many centuries of capitalist materialism” (Burke 35), Kenneth Burke acknowledges the strength of using religious ammunition to gain support from those who are not quite fully on the bandwagon of Nazi Germany, and if anything will sway the mind and opinion of people during this time era. Through religion Hitler villainizes the Jewish population in another way that was not yet used. Later Burke goes on to explain the different ways religion and capitalism would affect people when trying to be persuaded. 

Capitalism more so for status and religion for converting not so much into riches through belief and devotion. 

     Hitler’s limits in this section are exposed when he begins to go into the topic of religion. His main limit is religion, in any written text in relation to what he preached will contradict what he was pushing onto Germans.  No one had the integrity, besides the Jewish population, to challenge these teachings in such a bold manner due to the fear of being put to death. Also the limits the text faces, is the fact the things being expressed upon were majority opinionated and simply the beliefs of one man being imposed onto others, through different propagandas. Burke describes the uses and methods of Hitler throughout the section to give an insight of the propaganda being thrown towards the people of Germany who actually believed they had a choice in choosing whether they wanted to follow Hitler or not. The limits of this section could be summed up as factual information that could have been presented but was not out of the fear of the consequences. 

      Three main keywords used by Hitler were determined as vital to parts of his concepts in gaining followers to believe and be fearful if they did not follow. The first word to raise instincts of readers and possibly followers was plot. “This is one more indication of the cunning with which the “Jewish plot” is being engineered”, the use of the word plot was allotted towards the Jewish population, the beliefs and culture of the Jewish population was seen as a plot overtake and spread their teachings and religious practices instead of what Hitler was attempting to spread, making the punishment and hatred towards the Jews much harsher (Burke 35). In actuality the word plot fits better with Hitler ironically, compared to the Jewish beliefs which were historically original. Hitler’s ideas and practices were a plot to take over Germany and eventually Europe for all we know, the difference in the two is obviously Hitler’s were all fabricated and created by an individual where the religious practice of Judaism has historical background. The importance in this is that none of Hitler’s teachings had anything to really back them up besides whether he said they were valid. The second keyword was proof, his use of proof in the text was towards the alienation of the Jewish population. The Jewish population and the accusation of seducing the Aryan race creating a “Jewish plot” to poison and spread among the Aryan people. The third devil, was used to describe the Jewish population as the 
“international Jew”, in relation and comparison to the devil and him being international and universal, he describes them as almost an epidemic spreading and needing to be stopped. Also answering the question of what Hitler meant about the international Jew.

     In conclusion, the passage in the of the rhetoric of Hitler, Burke is summing up the way Hitler villainized the Jewish population of Germany through religion and philosophical teachings. Answering the remaining questions, the Jewish people did not push their practices on the people of Germany conversion into a religion is a choice it is not forced. The German people who did not flee the country did indeed follow through the fear of death by not following the teachings of Hitler. Answering the third and fourth questions we need to know these methods so we do not fall victim to the same practices and teachings as those in Germany, so we as a population see the signs before they begin to occur. The decision Hitler made to attack the Jewish population and put the people of Germany against them, because if they opposed him he made it seem as if they were opposing God.

  