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Goebbels and Propaganda - Coggle Diagram
Goebbels and Propaganda
newspapers
non-Nazi newspapers and magazines were taken down - by 1935, 1600 newspapers and thousands of magazines
Reich Press Law - October 1933, removal of Jewish and left-wing journalists
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rallies
annual mass rally in Nuremberg - advertise power of Nazi state
- last for several days
- attract almost 1 million people
parades held on special occasions, eg. Hitler's birthday (20 April)
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radio
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there were radios in public places (cafes, factories, schools, offices) and loudspeakers in the streets
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additionally, radios were shortwave - foreign broadcasts were difficult to hear
film
cinema was popular - over 100 films made a year and audiences exceeding 250 million in 1933 - potential for propaganda
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films often had a pro-Nazi slant instead of being overtly political - e.g. 'Hitlerjunge Quex' in 1933
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literature
all books, plays and poems were carefully censored
students in Berlin burnt over 20,000 Jewish, communist and anti-Navi books in a massive bonfire in May 1933 (encouraged by Goebbels) - happened in many cities
about 2500 German writers went into self-imposed exile in the years up to 1939 rather than living under Nazi control
music and theatre
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encouraged traditional German folk music, along with Brahms, Beethoven and Richard Wagner (Hitler's favourite composer)
theatre - concentrated on German history and political drama - cheap theatre tickets with Nazi or racial theme
art and architecture
Hitler banned 'degenerate' art - art from the Weimar Republic which apparently was backward, unpatriotic and Jewish
paintings showed
- Nazi ideal of the simple peasant life
- hard work as heroic
- the perfect Aryan - young adults with perfect bodies
- women in their preferred role as housewives and mothers
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Hitler encouraged 'monumental style' buildings - large buildings made of stone, copied from ancient Greece/Rome - showed power of the Third Reich
1936 Olympics
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the 1936 Olympics was in Berlin - were designed to impress the outside world - Germany was a modern, well-organised society with superior Aryans
- Olympic stadium was the largest in the world - could hold 110,000 spectators
- signs declaring 'Jews not wanted' were removed
- news reports were controlled
- Germany won the most medals - 33 gold, 26 silver, 30 bronze
- all camera crews had to be approved and supervised by Leni Riefenstahl