Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Nazi Propaganda 1933-1949
- Newspapers/Press and Posters
- Jewish newspapers shut down and Jewish
editors and journalists out of work.
- Editors made to take citizenship test.
- No anti-Nazi policies to be published.
- Goebbels controlled press closely.
- Newspapers were so dull that
sales went down by 10%.
- Any subscriptions revoked meant that people
could be accused of being anti-Nazi.
- Posters are cheap easy to distribute.
- Main form of propaganda
- Constant reminder of Nazi ideologies.
- Culture
- You weren't allowed to enter the theatre
during the film as the Nazi's ads were
played at the beginning of every film.
- To glorify the Nazi's
and Aryan's
- Disgracing Jews
- Showing the greatness of Hitler
- Express how badly Nazi's were treated
on the Eastern Front
- Compulsary to watch the newsreels
and short Nazi documentaries.
- People were entertained as well as
subliminally fed Nazi political views.
- Books burnt in a public
fire in 1933 May
- Libraries were ransacked to
acquire unsuitable books.
- Books that threatened
Hitler's plan was destroyed.
- Only books of race, war victories
and the Nazi movements.
- Musicians, actors and artists had to be
approved by and members of the Reich
Chamber of Culture so their work wouldn't
contradict Nazi "law".
- No jazz music (black music)
- Bach, Beethoven and
Wagner was preferred
- Only two types of art - Classic,
realistic art and art that
promoted the "true German
spirit".
- Over 700 competitions with
financial rewards (often to develop
acceptable methods of painting.
- 12, 890 pieces of art was destroyed in 1938.
- Festivals/Rallies
- Milistrisic
- Organised by Josef
Goebbels and Albert Speer.
- Annual Nuremberg rallies in August.
- 40,000 attendees
- So extravagant that 150 search lights
could be seen from over 100km away.
- Show the unity of the German people.
- Celebration of the Nazi regime.
- Anybody not attending could be accused as anti-Nazi.
- Radio and Public Speeches
- Radios were affordable (35-76 marks)
so every household could have one.
- 'People's Receiver'
- Loud speakers were
placed in the street.
- Cafe's were ordered to
play speeches daily.
- Spreading the word
of Nazism.