Censorship and Propaganda - Germany
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- Created on: 07-05-18 16:12
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- Censorship and Propaganda
- Nazi ideology
- Maintain racial purity
- A hierarchy of races - Aryans at the top
- Blaming Jews for all Germany's problems
- Anti-democratic: one-party state: dictatorship
- Nationalism - the Treaty of Versailles had to be undone
- A people's community that overcomes race and class: Volksgemeinschaft
- Press
- Communist and Socialist newspapers were shut down and others were placed under Nazi control
- The Editor's Law of 1933 ensured that Nazi views were reported and the Propaganda Ministry gave editors guidance on what to write
- Film
- The Reich Film Chamber was established. There were few political films, but the Weekly Review contained political information to be published
- Drama and Music
- Nazis wanted drama and music to uphold nazi values. They banned experimental music like jazz and Jewish music was forbidden
- Radio
- Goebbels brought broadcasting under Nazi control
- 70 er cent of people had a radio by 1939
- Loudspeakers were installed in factories and offices. 2/3s of the time popular music was played; 1/3 of the time, Nazi propaganda was churned out
- Literature and art
- Writers had to be positive about Nazism and there were approved themes
- The Reich Chamber of Literature listed banned books
- Ritual
- Heil Hitler, the Horst Wessel anthem, uniforms and public festivals commemorating Hitler's birthday and the Munich Putsch
- Nazi ideology
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