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Propaganda
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Nazi Propaganda
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• Propaganda is the
use of the media
to promote one
point of view.
• Propaganda is
brainwashing the
public, convincing
them of an
ideological
viewpoint.
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Goebbels
• Minister of Public
Enlightenment
• Responsible for
running the Nazi
Propaganda
machine
• Tasked with
ensuring views of
Nazi party were
persuasive.
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Goebbels
• Goebbels perfected
the "Big Lie"
technique: a lie, if
audacious enough
and repeated enough
times, will be
believed by the
masses.
• Do you think that
this technique is still
used today? Why,
where, by whom?
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Note taking:
As you look at this
Powerpoint, add
notes to a
mind-map about
aspects of Nazi
propaganda.
Radio;
receiver;
Hitler’s
speeches
Nazi propaganda and censorship
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Nazi Propaganda
• Posters
• Radio
• Film
• Newspapers
• Censorship
• Recurrent themes
• Goebbel’s influence
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Nazi Propaganda
themes:
Anti-Semitism (anti-Jew)
Militarism (uniforms; army)
Nationalism (pride in Germany)
Supremacy of Aryan race
Cult of the Fuhrer (Hitler focal point of
nation; god-like figure)
6. Traditional German ‘Volks’ culture
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Posters
• Posters - cheap &
easy to distribute
• Placed in
prominent
positions
• Constant reminder
of Nazi ideology
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Examples of Nazi Posters
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Radio
• Cheap radios were
produced:
“Volksempfänger”
("People's receiver")
• Volksempfänger could not
pick up foreign broadcasts
• Between 1932-39, Radio
ownership rose from 25%
to 70%
• Radio wardens reported
on people’s reactions to
specific broadcasts
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Nazi Cinema
• Showed Hitler + Nazi
ideology in a positive
light
• Films created to
entertain, using Nazi
approved story lines
• Film visits quadrupled
between 1933 and
1942
• Nazis showed
newsreels before start
of feature films
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1934 –Triumph of the Will –film that chronicles Nazi rally,
made by Leni Riefenstahl
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Newspapers
• 1933:
– there were 4,700 daily
newspapers,
– 3% of those controlled
by NSDAP
• 1944:
– 997 daily newspapers,
– 82% controlled by
NSDAP
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Censorship
• 10 May 1933: largest
book burning in
Berlin
• Raids on public and
private libraries
• Books burned were
Jewish, socialist or
pacifist by nature
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Censorship
• Censorship prevents people from
hearing anyone else’s ideas
• Do you think censorship exists in
today’s world?
In 2002, China banned the
search engine Google.
Can you think why?
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Censorship
• Goebbels aimed to ensure nobody
could read/see anything that was
hostile/damaging to Nazi party
• He worked with SS & Gestapo to
achieve this aim
• What part did the Gestapo/SS
have to play in censorship?
How did Hitler keep control of Germany?
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The Terror State
Secret police (Gestapo)
would spy on and
arrest enemies of the
state.
SS were responsible
for running the
concentration camps.
Everyone was scared of
being arrested by the
Gestapo and being put in
a concentration camp.
Keeping
Control of
Germany
Popularity
Ripping up the
Treaty of Versailles.
Using scapegoats to
take blame for
problems.
Creating Jobs
Mass Rallies, Posters
and Propaganda films.
The Nazis controlled
and censored the radio
& newspapers.
School children were
indoctrinated with Nazi
ideas at school.
Hitler Youth & the
Young Maidens.