Hitler and Propaganda

1. Hitler and Propaganda Nolan and Liam

2. How did the Nazis use culture and the mass media to control the people?

3. Purpose of Propaganda: • “Reshape people’s beliefs, values and ideas along Nazi lines.”

4. Purpose of Propaganda: • "Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people... Propaganda works on the general public from the standpoint of an idea and makes them ripe for the victory of this idea." -Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (1926)

5. Purpose of Propaganda: • “The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over” -Joseph Goebbels

6. Mass Media

7. Radio: Goebbels set up the Reich Radio Company that controls all the local radio stations. They also sold Volksempfanger or  “People’s Radios” where the people could listen to Hitler’s speeches. The radios could not pick up foreign broadcasts since these reportscould be considered ‘anti-Nazi’. Family listening to the “people’s radio”

8. Cinema • 1000 films were produced under the Nazis rule and some of these films glorified the ‘Master Race’ (Triumph of the Will, documentary of 1934 Nuremberg Rally by Leni Reifenstahl). • By 1942, the film industry was also brought under control by the state. Nazis relied on newsreels that were shown before the main feature.

9. The Eternal Jew film poster

10. Newspapers: • Hitler banned opposition newspapers in 1933. Goebbels then established a press agency called EherVerlagthat tells editors what the contents of the newspapers should be. • Julius Streicher led the Nazi bitter anti-Semitic newspaper “Der Sturmer”. He also released anti-semitic books for children.

11. 1943 Sturmer special edition. The image shows the Jews extracting blood from Christian children for their own religious rituals.

12. The Party’s newspaper, Racial Observer

13. The Arts

14. Paintings / Posters • These were used largely as a method of persuading people to go to war, and that is was necessary to fight. • It was also used as a method of promoting labor, and to dehumanize Jews. • During war times some posters were put up to advise people on how to act, that they should conserve materials and that they should contribute in the war efforts. • Posters played an important role in conveying messages to the German people, and also increased their spirit.

15. Shame on you, chatterer! The enemy is listening. Silence is your duty. Yes! Führer, we will follow you! The Jew: The inciter of war, the prolonger of war.

16. Music • was used to promote the German culture, and increase the German spirit. • The three master composers that represented the music at the time were Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Wagner and Anton Buckner. Their music was defined as good German music. • Most music which did not follow these styles, such as jazz, were seen as alien, and attempts were made to eradicate them. • Bayreuth festival was used by the Nazi party as a propaganda tool against the Jews.

17. Literature • The Nazis put a large amount of focus on young children, beginning their nazification at a young age. • With books such as Traukeinem Fuchs auf grünerHeid und keinem Jud beiseinemEid (Do not trust a fox in a green pasture or a Jew upon his oath), and the Poisonous Mushroom,children were taught early about anti-Semitism.

18. The cover of the anti-semitic books for kids

19. German students gather around books they regard as "un-German." The books will be publically burned at Berlin's Opernplatz. Berlin, Germany, May 10, 1933— National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.

20. Censorship People who disagreed with the Nazis were ‘silenced’. In order to publish something or perform in Germany, you have to be a member of the Reich Chamber of Culture. So if the views of the writers, film makers and artists were considered anti-Nazi, then they were denied membership.

21. Success • By 1933, the circulation of Nazi newspaper copies increased to 2.4 million per day, that enable the Nazis to influence the German people’s ideology. • By 1944, the government controls ⅔ of the content of newspapers in the country. • “Jud Sub” (a film about anti-Semitism), gained a lot of popularity. The violence against Jews increased once Jud Sub was released in 1940. It was reported that teenagers were especially prone to violence after the film. • Other films such as “Triumph of the will” receivedmany prizes such as the German Film Prize, and was seen as great Nazi propaganda. • Albert Speer, a member of the audience says “I have never seen an audience so effectively roused to fanaticism.” • a poll conducted by the USA in October 1945 showed that 42% of German youths believed that reconstruction would best be carried out by a ‘strong new Führer’."

22. Failures • Eternal Jew was a disaster, people fainted. • The Nazi propaganda didn’t appeal that much to the older are more educated people, that have been brought up by different ideas and values. • There were still some resistance. Groups such as the White Rose and Swing Youth formed, which rebelled against Hitler and Nazism. • According to activehistory, there is evidence in 1933 that people were actually not listening to Hitler’s speeches (through the people’s Radio). many Germans continued to listen to jazz in secret.

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