Propaganda

Propaganda 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.

Propaganda Goebbels

• Minister of Public Enlightenment

• Responsible for running the Nazi Propaganda machine

• Tasked with ensuring views of Nazi party were persuasive.

Propaganda 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?

Propaganda Note taking:

Nazi propaganda and censorship

As you look at this Powerpoint, add notes to a mind-map about aspects of Nazi propaganda.

Radio; receiver; Hitler’s speeches

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• Posters• Radio• Film• Newspapers• Censorship• Recurrent themes• Goebbel’s influence

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themes:

1. Anti-Semitism (anti-Jew)

2. Militarism (uniforms; army)

3. Nationalism (pride in Germany)

4. Supremacy of Aryan race5. Cult of the Fuhrer (Hitler focal point of

nation; god-like figure)

6. Traditional German ‘Volks’ culture

Propaganda 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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Propaganda 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

Propaganda 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

Propaganda Newspapers

• 1933:– there were 4,700

daily newspapers, – 3% of those

controlled by NSDAP

• 1944:– 997 daily

newspapers, – 82% controlled by

NSDAP

Propaganda Censorship

• 10 May 1933: largest book burning in Berlin

• Raids on public and private libraries

• Books burned were Jewish, socialist or pacifist by nature

Propaganda 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?

Propaganda 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?

Keeping Control of Germany

Everyone was scared of being arrested by the

Gestapo and being put in a concentration camp.

Hitler Youth & the Young Maidens.

Propaganda

Mass Rallies, Posters and Propaganda films.

The Nazis controlled and censored the radio

& newspapers.

School children were indoctrinated with Nazi

ideas at school.

The Terror State

Secret police (Gestapo) would spy on and

arrest enemies of the state.

SS were responsible for running the

concentration camps.

Popularity

Creating Jobs

Using scapegoats to take blame for

problems.

Ripping up the Treaty of Versailles.