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25/3/20 Propaganda and Censorship in Nazi Germany Matilda Plambeck
Propaganda in Nazi Germany was won by Dr Joseph Goebbels he was a
minister for enlightenment and propaganda he passionately believed in
Hitler being the saviour of Germany and he needs to make sure the
German people believed this as well.
The Nuremberg rallies
-Goebbels promised huge rallies marches torchlight processions in
meetings
-The best example was the Nuremberg rally
--It took place every year in the summer
--Hitler spoke at great length and there were:
---bands
---marches
---flying displays
--It gave them a sense of belonging and brought some colour and
excitement into up into their lives
--They also showed the German people the power of the state and
convinced them that every German supported the Nazis
- Goebbels’s realised that the Nazis main attraction was they created
order out of chaos into the rally was set up to emphasise order
Control of media and culture
-Less obvious than the rallies but more important was the use of media
and culture
-The censorship provides a contrast with their freedom of expression and
in Weimar Germany.
-Books:
--no book could be published without Goebbels permission
--The best seller in Germany was Mein Kampf
--In 1933 there was a book burning where students publicly burnt books
that included ideas unacceptable to Nazis
-Art:
--Artist suffered the same restrictions as writers:
---Only Nazi to approve painters could show their works they usually had
to be paintings or sculptures of heroic Aryans, military figures or images
of an Aryan family
-Newspapers:
--Within months of the Nazi takeover:
---Jewish editors and journalists were out of work and anti-Nazi
newspapers were closed down
---those that remained not large print anti-Nazi articles the newspapers
became boring and the circulation of newspapers fell by about 10% as
result
-Cinema:
--All films with their factual fictional thrillers or comedy had to be pro-Nazi
and have a message to show that
--Newsreels before each film told the greatness of Hitler and the
achievements of the Nazis ---Germans avoided this by arriving late and
Goebbles censored all foreign films coming into Germany
25/3/20 Propaganda and Censorship in Nazi Germany Matilda Plambeck
Propaganda in Nazi Germany was won by Dr Joseph Goebbels he was a
minister for enlightenment and propaganda he passionately believed in
Hitler being the saviour of Germany and he needs to make sure the
German people believed this as well.
The Nuremberg rallies
-Goebbels promised huge rallies marches torchlight processions in
meetings
-The best example was the Nuremberg rally
--It took place every year in the summer
--Hitler spoke at great length and there were:
---bands
---marches
---flying displays
--It gave them a sense of belonging and brought some colour and
excitement into up into their lives
--They also showed the German people the power of the state and
convinced them that every German supported the Nazis
- Goebbels’s realised that the Nazis main attraction was they created
order out of chaos into the rally was set up to emphasise order
Control of media and culture
-Less obvious than the rallies but more important was the use of media
and culture
-The censorship provides a contrast with their freedom of expression and
in Weimar Germany.
-Books:
--no book could be published without Goebbels permission
--The best seller in Germany was Mein Kampf
--In 1933 there was a book burning where students publicly burnt books
that included ideas unacceptable to Nazis
-Art:
--Artist suffered the same restrictions as writers:
---Only Nazi to approve painters could show their works they usually had
to be paintings or sculptures of heroic Aryans, military figures or images
of an Aryan family
-Newspapers:
--Within months of the Nazi takeover:
---Jewish editors and journalists were out of work and anti-Nazi
newspapers were closed down
---those that remained not large print anti-Nazi articles the newspapers
became boring and the circulation of newspapers fell by about 10% as
result
-Cinema:
--All films with their factual fictional thrillers or comedy had to be pro-Nazi
and have a message to show that
--Newsreels before each film told the greatness of Hitler and the
achievements of the Nazis ---Germans avoided this by arriving late and
Goebbles censored all foreign films coming into Germany
