Censorship and Propaganda

Question 1

What is censorship?

Answer 1

When the government controls what people see and read.

Question 2

What is propaganda?

Answer 2

Information given out to spread ideas or points of view

Question 3

What was Goebbels role in Nazi Germany?

Answer 3

Minister of propaganda: Spread nazi ideas and controlled all the censorship

Question 4

Name three methods of propaganda that the Nazi party used?

Answer 4

Any 3 of the below:

• Radio
• Cinema
• Posters
• Rallies
• Sport
• Art
• Hitler’s image/personality

Question 5

Give two ways that the Nazi’s used censorship in Germany?

Answer 5

Any one of the below:

• Books only published with Goebbels permission
• Public burning of books opposing nazism or written by Jews
• Only short-range radios allowed so they would not receive foreign broadcasts
• Playwrights, film-makers etc. were told what to say