control and terror (propaganda)

Question 1

who was the minister of propaganda?

Answer 1

Joseph Goebbels

Question 2

what did Goebbels instruct all German radio stations in March 1933?

Answer 2

that all broadcasts had to align with Nazi ideology and radio stations had to follow government instructions

Question 3

who were removed from positions of media by the Nazis?

Answer 3

Jews
half-Jews
KPD and SPD members

Question 4

what were the aims of the German propaganda machine?

Answer 4

to glorify the regime
to spread Nazi ideology

Question 5

what was the role of the Reich Radio Company?

Answer 5

it brought all broadcasting in Germany under the control of one state office

Question 6

how many media personnel were removed on racial grounds?

Answer 6

13%

Question 7

what was the Volksempfanger?

Answer 7

the People’s Reciever

Question 8

by 1939 how many German homes had a radio?

Answer 8

70%

Question 9

how was radio broadcasted publicly?

Answer 9

use of loudspeakers in public places such as restaurants, offices and factories

Question 10

what was the role of a Radio warden?

Answer 10

to ensure all members of the public were paying attention to radio broadcasts

Question 11

what was the Nazi publishing house?

Answer 11

Eher Verlag

Question 12

by 1939 how much of the press did Eher Verlag control?

Answer 12

2/3

Question 13

what was the DNB?

Answer 13

state controlled organisation which merged news agencies into one
they vetted the news material before it was passed to journalists

Question 14

what was the Editors’ Law of October 1933?

Answer 14

law which made the content of a newspaper the sole responsibility of the editor

scared editors into submission with many not willing to risk

editors became censors

Question 15

what % decline in newspaper circulation under the Nazis?

Answer 15

10%

Question 16

what were examples of rituals introduced by Goebbels?

Answer 16

• Heil Hitler/Sieg Heil
• the Nazi salute
• Hort Wessel anthem
• militaristic uniform

Question 17

examples of Nazi holidays?

Answer 17

Hitler’s Birthday 20 April
Seizure of power 30 January
Nuremberg party rally September

Question 18

what was the RMVP?

Answer 18

state culture chamber

Question 19

what did the RMVP do?

Answer 19

buy shares in film companies and control their output

Question 20

most significant Nazi filmmaker?

Answer 20

Leni Riefenstahl

Question 21

examples of OVERT PROPAGANDA films

Answer 21

The Triumph of the Will
The Eternal Jew

Question 22

when was the RMVP set up?

Answer 22

March 1933

Question 23

what was Weltanschaung>?

Answer 23

the concept of a positive world view for the Nazis

Question 24

what was the submission theory?

Answer 24

use of terror and force to keep people down

Question 25

what was the seduction theory?

Answer 25

use of propaganda and percieved success to control the people

Question 26

what were the main themes of Nazi propaganda?

Answer 26

the Führer myth national solidarity

Question 27

how was the Führer myth portrayed?

Answer 27

Hitler was portrayed as a man of the people propaganda would show him: with women ----> shows he was a sex symbol with children -----> shows he was caring and a father figure with soldiers ------> shows him as a patriot digging at construction sites -> shows he was close to the working class crowds ------> shows he was popular

Question 28

national solidarity

Answer 28

propaganda was used to show the German people TOGETHER and AS ONE this occurred throughout the regime to ensure the German people stuck with the Nazis, in the belief that the rest of Germany were also doing the same

Question 29

what were the effects of Nazi propaganda?

Answer 29

heavily promoted Nazism to indoctrinate exploited the fears of the German people ended opposition

Question 30

heavily promoted Nazism

Answer 30

was used to show off Nazi ideals to the German people part of Gleichschaltung many Germans were completely endorsed in Nazi society as a result of extensive propaganda

Question 31

exploited the fears of the German people

Answer 31

by vilifying the Jews, showing the failures of the Weimar Republic and the threat from the left, the Nazi propaganda machine had tapped into the fears of the German people and showed how Nazism stood for the German people