Censorship & propaganda

Question 1

What key term did propaganda create and what was it?

Answer 1

volkgemeinschaft - glorifying Aryan race

Question 2

How was volkgemeinshchaft used in the war?

Answer 2

sustain morale & mobilise ppl

Question 3

Who ran the press and what types of propaganda did he influence?

Answer 3

Goebbells – film, radio & theatre departments & censored non-Nazi

Question 4

What did propaganda help create and what were the Nazis striving towards through propaganda?

Answer 4

helped create ‘Hitler myth’ but didn’t succeed in winning working-class.

wanted nationalism - TOV reversed & socially united traditionally pure.

Question 5

What were the 6 sources of propaganda?

Answer 5

1) Radio
2) Press
3)Drama + music
4)Lit & Art
5) Film
6) ritual

Question 6

Examples of propaganda in radio?

Answer 6

Reich Radio Company - only 25% Germs had radios so Nazis set up cheap ‘the peoples receiver’ - 1939 = 70% ppl had radios

no escaping radios - loudspeakers

Goebbels - 2/3 air time music to stop it being boring

Question 7

Examples of the press using propaganda?

Answer 7

The Editor’s Law 1933 - Newspapers Nazi news - opp closed down with some in Reich Press Chamber.

daily press conference at propaganda ministry - told newspapers what to write.

Question 8

examples of Drama+Music using propaganda?

Answer 8

Theatres & plays supervised by police ensuring Nazi values & jazz forbidden - ‘degenerate’ - jew music & conductors dismissed.

Question 9

Examples of Lit and Art using propaganda?

Answer 9

Reich Chamber of literature - banned books & burned at rallies
modern art & artists removed from galleries

Question 10

Examples of films using propaganda?

Answer 10

Reich Film Chamber - every film industry had to join - political films included.

Question 11

Examples of rituals as propaganda?

Answer 11

unite society - ‘Heil Hitler’ - Horst Wessell anthem, uniforms, festivals celebrating Nazi seizure of power.