Control: Poster And Literature Flashcards
What were posters used for ?
To put across the Nazi message and targeted younger audiences
We’re could posters be seen?
Everywhere and the messages they contained were simple and direct
What happens to all books, play and poems by the Nazis?
They cleverly censored and controlled them to put across the Nazi message
Why and what did students in Berlin do in May of 1933?
Encouraged by Goebbels
Students in Berlin burnt 20,000 books written by Jewish people, communists and anti Nazi uni professors in a massive bonfire in May 1933, Berlin
Was Berlin the only example of books being burned ?
No similar events took place in other cities across Germany that year
What were many writers persuaded or forced to do ?
Write books, plays and poems which praised Hitler’s achievements
What did some writers do ?
Writers such as the novelist Thomas Mann imposed self exile rather than living under the Nazi machine
How many writers left Germany by 1939?
2,500 writers left Germany by 1939
