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Media in Nazi Germany Tan Jun Xiang. Censorship. Rampant in Nazi Germany Minister of Propaganda/Enlightenment, Joseph Goebbels Newspapers, radio and all forms of media Art by Jews banned. ‘Out of the ordinary’, punishable by death. Propaganda.
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Censorship • Rampant in Nazi Germany • Minister of Propaganda/Enlightenment, Joseph Goebbels • Newspapers, radio and all forms of media • Art by Jews banned. • ‘Out of the ordinary’, punishable by death.
Propaganda • Nobody could read/see anything that was hostile/damaging to Nazis • Views of Nazis put across in the most persuasive way possible • Reich Chamber of Commerce in 1933:Art, Literature, Music, Radio, Film • Book burnings • Films on: Jews, Greatness of Hitler, Way to live as a Good Nazi. • Comedies for ‘lighter look’, Goebbels
Films • Anti-Semitism and Indoctrination, all controlled by Goebbels • Eternal Jew and Jew Sub • HitlerjungeQuex • Many of these films, were not successes
Radio • EugenHadamowsky, head of the Chamber of Radio. • Removed anyone on radio against the Nazis. • National pride, patriotism, pride in Hitler, Aryan pride • Cheap radios, ‘People’s Receivers’ • During WWII, treason if one listened to overseas broadcasts
Newspapers • Racially clean, Journalists that were Jewish, Liberal fired. • Remaining, Nazi citizenship test. • Nazis banned production of any newspaper from Jews • Nazi Newspapers did well after January 1933