Netanyahu draws inspiration from the legacy of Nazi propaganda with loudspeakers in Gaza.. How did it appear?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has literally drawn inspiration from Nazi party methods in his war against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, after resorting to installing loudspeakers through the occupying army to broadcast his speech at the United Nations.

Since early morning, the occupying army stated that, based on orders from political authorities, it had installed loudspeakers in the Gaza Strip to broadcast Netanyahu's speech.

The occupying army raised loudspeakers on several cranes in areas facing the Gaza Strip, in addition to placing trucks near the separation fence of the strip, opposite areas that the army has turned into rubble, where there are no Palestinians, and broadcast Netanyahu's speech at the United Nations through them.

This move sparked anger among the families of the prisoners of the occupation, who considered it a meaningless step, while Netanyahu sent a brief message during his speech to the prisoners of the occupation in the strip, promising them, as usual, to release them, in addition to issuing threats to the resistance in Gaza to surrender.

The Israeli newspaper "Haaretz," citing an unnamed senior officer, reported: "It's a crazy idea; no one understands what the military benefit of it is."

The idea of propaganda vehicles with loudspeakers, or what was called "Lautsprecherwagen," dates back to the Nazi party's rule in Germany. These were trucks or small buses fitted with large loudspeakers on their roofs or sides.

The propaganda vehicles roamed the streets and neighborhoods of Germany, focusing on small towns and villages that lacked radio broadcasts, broadcasting recorded speeches of Hitler and Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels around the clock, in addition to Nazi party songs, as well as the central Reich radio.

The vehicles played a role in calling for Nazi party gatherings or marches, as well as the preparatory propaganda directed by the Nazis against their enemies.

The vehicles were a mandatory listening method due to the loud sound and noise they produced, making it difficult to avoid listening to that propaganda in public squares and roads.

Goebbels had a negative outcome from the speeches Hitler delivered over the radio, discovering that he was not effective through the radio recitation of the speeches, disappointing the audience, and even the sound that came through the radio was just mumbling and stuttering, a weak voice, from which the audience understood only some curses.

Therefore, Goebbels, through the party's strategists, decided to install massive sound amplification systems, along with a network of 100 loudspeakers, to ensure that no area remained silent during the opening of the Tempelhof Field, aiming to control sound over 50,000 square meters clearly and transmit the smallest vibrations of sound.

Goebbels' plan succeeded in conveying Hitler's speech to his audience, and the use of loudspeakers became a strategy for the Nazi party. He invented a mushroom-shaped loudspeaker, in collaboration with acoustics experts, to transmit sound without distortion, and the loudspeakers were installed on mobile vehicles to deliver Hitler's speeches and accompanying chants with high sound quality to influence the audience.

Just as Netanyahu did with the residents of Gaza by installing loudspeakers to broadcast his speech and threats, Hitler preceded him in his anti-Jewish campaign, inciting attacks against them in squares and markets under nationalistic pretexts.

Hitler resorted to this during the wave of economic boycotts against the Jews, stopping purchases from their shops in 1933, and it was also used forcefully in the most famous incident between the Nazis and the Jews known as Kristallnacht in 1938, which resulted in widespread attacks against them, leading to extensive displacement operations later.