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The Chamber of Culture:
Cinema
Nazi Supporters such as Alfred Hugenberg owned film studios, so the Nazis had a direct influence on exactly which films were made.
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Design
Hitler had clear ideas about the design of big, public buildings like libraries, government offices and parade grounds. He favoured huge, stone structures, often copies of buildings from ancient Greece or Rome
'Bauhaus' was an important architectural and design movement in Weimar Germany. It used new technology to design simple, practical buildings and objects. Hitler did not approve of such modern design, and closed the movement down in 1933.
Theatre
When the Nazis took over, they ruled that plays should mainly focus on German History and politics
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In the Weimar era, Nazis founded the militant League for German Culture to protest against 'modern' plays and films they disapproved of
Literature
Some popular books written in Weimar Germany were banned, including Rrich Remarque's anti-war novel 'All quiet on the Western Front'
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Goebbels encouraged books about race, the glory of war and the brilliance of the Nazis
Around 2,500 writers left Germany between 1933 and 1945
A list of banned books was created, 'Un-German' books or those by Jewish authors were removed from libraries and bookshops. Goebbels organised events in which books were gathered and burned
Sports and Leisure
The Olymipc games held in Berlin in 1936, was a propaganda oppourtunity. Famous German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl made a groundbreaking film of the Games using the latest German technology
The German team came top of the medals table. The Nazis claimed that this showed the superiority of the German race
Health and physical fitness was important to the Nazis, so success in sport was promoted to the nazi regime
During the Games, anti-Semititc posters and newspapers were temporarily stopped to give the rest of the world a more tolerant Germany
Art
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In 1936, the Nazis publicly burned 5,000 paintings they disapproved of. They put on an exhibition of 'degenerate' art to mock it and opened another of oficially approved paintings.
The Nazis wanted arts to be clearly understandable to ordinary people. It should show healthy, heroic German figures and family scenes of happy, strong, 'pure' Germans
Music
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Jewish composers were banned, and so was Jazz music because it had its origins among African Americans
Official approval was given to traditional marching music, folk songs and classical music by German and Austrian composers such as Bach Beethoven, Mozart and Wagner
- led by Joseph Goebbels - All musicians, writers, artists and actors had to be members
- anyone who refused would not be allowed to work
- some people such as Jews were banned from joining