Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Controlling the Minds of the People
- Use of Radio
- More radios per
head in Germany
than any other
country in Europe
- Both Hitler and Goebbels
realised the importance of
radio at the outset and
encouraged people to use it
- Hitler made numerous
broadcasts which would
have been listened to by
workforces in industry,
pupils in the classroom
and families at home
- Control of the Arts
- Literature
- Works of over 2500 writers were
officially banned due to censorship
- Nazi officials
ransacked public
university libraries
and burned
millions of books
on huge bonfires
- Music
- Some composers music was banned because
they were partly Jewish eg Mendelssohn
- A special place was given to the operas of Richard Wagner
- Hitler greatly admired them because they dealt
with German legends from the past
- Art
- Art was censored
- The Nazis disapproved of most forms of modern art
- Control of the Universities
- In Nazi Germany, the government interfered with scientific research in universities
- The Nazi leaders
sometimes showed
a complete
misunderstanding
of the importance
of research
- Several scientists fled from
Germany during the 1930s,
most notable Albert Einstein
- The Control of the Press
- Nazis encouraged reading
newspapers but made sure
all the news came form
officially approved agencies
- Journalists were directed by the press department
of the Ministry of People's Enlightenment and
Propaganda, and were given regular briefings on
what line to take their articles.
- Rallies
- Hitler used the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin for propaganda purposes
- In order to glorify the Nazi rule and attempt to demonstrate to the
rest of the world the physical 'superiority' of the 'master race'
- This was only partly successful
- Because, although Germany headed the medals
table at the end of the games, several key track
events had been won by the black United States
athlete Jesse Owens
- The Nazis continued to show their
love of mass rallies and displays
- The most spectacular of which was held in Nuremberg
- The Role of Women
- During the Weimar Republic, women had
gradually been given more opportunities,
and many had taken up careers
- The Nazis frowned on this
since they had a fixed idea
of women's role in society.
- A lot of pressure was
applied to women
lawyers and doctors
to give up their jobs.
- Had it been possible, Hitler would have preferred for the
vast majority of women being forced to stay at home