Controlling and influencing attitudes

Question 1

Explain how Nazi teachings and Catholic teachings deferred?

Answer 1

• Nazis glorified strength and violence and taught racial superiority
• Christians preached tolerance, peace and respect

Question 2

What is a concordat?

Answer 2

an agreement

Question 3

What did Hitler and Pope come to an agreement of?

Answer 3

• would not interfere with Catholic schools in Germany
• German bishops were ordered to swear loyalty to the Nationalist Socialist regime and not interfere with politics

Question 4

How did Hitler remove Catholicism in Germany?

Answer 4

Catholic schools were closed
Catholic Youth League was banned
Catholic priests were sent to concentration camps

Question 5

What was the Reich Church?

Answer 5

Nazi Protestant Church

Question 6

Who was the leader of the Reich Church?

Answer 6

Muller

Question 7

What Protestant opposed Nazi beliefs?

Answer 7

Pastor Martin Niemoller

Question 8

How did Hitler control Protestant churches?

Answer 8

-Protestant pastor who supported Nazi views were allowed to continue providing Church services

• Nazis insisted that Jews should not be baptised into the to Reich Church

Question 9

Who was the Minister of People’s Enlightenment and Propaganda?

Answer 9

Joseph Goebbels

Question 10

How did the Nazis use the press?

Answer 10

• Journalists were restricted on what to publish
• they were given regular briefings containing info the government was willing to release

Question 11

How did the Nazis use the radio?

Answer 11

• all radio stations were controlled by the Nazis
• cheap mass-produced radios were sold to the public
• 70% of German homes had radios

Question 12

How did Nazis use rallies?

Answer 12

mass rallies were held each year to create a sense of unity and advertise the strength of the Nazi party

• thousands of swastika banners, giant eagle with a 100- foot wing-spread

Question 13

How was sport Nazified in Germany?

Answer 13

sports stadiums were covered with Nazi symbols
insisted all international teams make the Nazi straight-armed salute during German national anthem
-haling sports victories as victories for Nazi ideals

Question 14

How did Hitler use the Berlin Olympics to Nazify sport?

Answer 14

• built an olympic stadium that was covered with swastikas
• all events were well-organised reflecting the Nazi Party

Question 15

What art was favoured by the Nazis?

Answer 15

romantic ideas about Germany’s past (life and stone families)

Nazi ideals (loyalty, struggle, self-sacrifice, discipline)

Question 16

How did the Nazis control art?

Answer 16

set up a Reich chamber of Visual Arts
any artists who refused membership were forbidden to teach
42,000 artists were accepted

12,000 painting were removed from art galleries
The Greater German Art Exhibition encouraged Nazi art

Question 17

Which architect was favoured by Hitler?

Answer 17

Albert Speel

Question 18

What architecture was favoured by the Nazis?

Answer 18

• big buildings to reflect power and permeance
• domes/arches/pillars

Question 19

Why was jazz music banned?

Answer 19

it was seen as the work of black people (inferior)

Question 20

What sort of music was promoted?

Answer 20

traditional German folk music

Question 21

Whose approval did new books require to be published?

Answer 21

The Chamber of Culture

Question 22

What happened to existing books that opposed Nazi idea?

Answer 22

millions of books were burnt on huge public bonfires

Question 23

How did Nazis control film in Germany?

Answer 23

films proceeded by a 45-minute official newsreel
all filmmakers had to send plot details to Gobbels for approval