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Culture in the Third Reich as a Means of Control Flashcards

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what was the main aims of Nazi propaganda?

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  • win the hearts and minds of the people
  • indoctrinate people with their Weltanschauung (worldview), seeking to turn them into committed members of the Volksgemeinschaft (People’s community)
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What kinds of art did Nazis dismiss as ‘degenerate’ and ‘un-German’?

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Bauhaus architecture and abstract art

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What was the ‘Fuhrer Cult’?

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The glorification of Adolf Hitler by focusing on his supposedly heroic and superhuman qualities

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What kind of literature that thrived in the WR?

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Communist and pacifist

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Eg. of communist and pacifist artists

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  • Communist playwright Bertholdt Brecht

- pacifist author Erich Maria Remarque

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Nazis wanted to pay homage to past heroes such as who?

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Frederick the Great, 18th century gifted military leader and king of Prussia

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When was the Reich Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda (RMVP) established?

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March 1933

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Who was minister of the RMVP?

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Josef Goebbels

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When and who by was the Reich Chamber of Culture set up?

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September 1933 by Goebbels

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What were the seven sub chambers of the Reich Chamber of Culture?

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  • fine arts
  • music
  • theatre
  • press
  • radio
  • literature
  • film
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What did the Reich Chamber of Culture do? (3)

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  • exercised control of artistic life
  • compulsory membership for those involved in culture
  • those seen as extolling non-Nazi views banned. Some fled abroad and other stayed quiet.
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What did Nazis expect artists and writers to do?

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commit themselves to moulding the people’s collective minds

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Art presented heroic idealisations such as…

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a healthy peasant, brave warrior or productive woman

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Nazi art was conservative and often copied earlier works eg.

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Arthur Kampf’s Venus and Adonis that was copied from 16th and 18th century paintings

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When was the House of German Art set up?

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1937

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The HOuse of German Art held what exhibition?

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Munich Exhibition of Great German Art

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What did the Munich Exhibition of Great German Art include art with scenes of…

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Scenes of - rural life

              - valour on the battlefield
              - aryan master race
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Same day as the Munich Exhibition of Great German Art was another exhibition showcasing what

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degenerate art

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How many showed up to the ‘Degenerate’ art show compared to the Great German Art show?

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Over 2million at degenerate art compared to 600 000 Great G Art

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1935 how many art exhibitions were there in factories

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over 120

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1941 how many factory art exhibitions were there?

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over 1000

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When were there over 120 factory art exhibitions?

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1935

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When were there over 1000 Art exhibitions factory?

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1941

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Eg. exhibition titles (2_

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‘Blood and Soil’ and ‘The autobahns of Hitler’

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25
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What were NAzi sculptures like?

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Portrayed NAzi ideals in perfect but lifeless representations of physically perfect Germans

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26
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What year did Hitler order all public buildings to display sculptures typifying NAzi ideals?

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1934

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27
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What sculptors did Hitler favour (2)?

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Arno Breker and Josef Thorak

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What were Hitler’s favoured sculptors provided with and why?

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Studios to mass produce sculptures of healthy, virile young aryans and powerful animals like eagles to spread a message of superiority, purity and power

29
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How did HItler describe the power of architecture?

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“the word in stone”

30
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What kind of style were Nazi buildings?

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Neo-classical, monumental styles

31
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Hitler wanted to create an architectural project called

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‘The thousand year reich”

32
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What did the thousand year reich mean to Hitler?

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Had impressive public puildinfs and remained a major pre-occupation of Hiyler even in final days of war

33
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Who was Albert Speer?

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Hitler’s personal architect and General Architectural Inspector of the Reich 1937

34
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What major thing did Albert Speer build?

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Olympic Stadium for the Berlin Olympics of 1936

35
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In 1what year did the NAzis close down the Bauhaus Art Show by who

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1933 by Gropius

36
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When was the major book-burning ceremony in Berlin?

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MAy 1933

37
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wHat did Nazis expect of novelists?

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TO promote NAzi ideals or at least be neutral

38
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Give two eggs of book authors that were banned?

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HG Wells and Hemingway

39
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How many copies did Mein Kampf sell as th best-selling book?

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Over 6 million

40
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What did Nazis use music for?

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Stirring music and tales of German heroes used in music to stir up patriotic emotions esp in marches and rallies.

41
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Who were Hitler’s favourite composers (3) who got special attention?

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Wagner, Strauss and Bruckner

42
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What was Bayreuth?

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A festival promoted by Hitler which was dedicated to Wagner’s Operas

43
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What kind of music was banned? (2)

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Black Jazz and Jewish composers

44
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eg. banned Jewish Composer

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Mendelssohn

45
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What kind of theatrical pieces were preferred by the Nazis?

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Historical dramas and light entertainment

46
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Who often organised theatre production?

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KdF

47
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eg. of a Nazi theatrical piece

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‘Thingspielen’ which was a new drama glorifying Germany’s pagan past

48
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What organisation kept a register of accepted editors and journalists?

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Reich Association of the German Press

49
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What was the NAzi-controlled News agency called

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DNB

50
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HOw much Newspaper content did the DNB pprovide

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about half

51
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Each morning, the propaganda ministry told newspapers…

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which stories and headlines to use

52
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What was the Editor Law of October 1933?

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Editors were now responsible for infringement go government directives and it was considered treason to spread false rumours

53
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News became dull and overall newspaper circulation dropped by —

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10%

54
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what org took over German Radio

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Reich Radio Company

55
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The Reich Radio company dismissed how much staff on what grounds

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13% staff on political/racial grounds

56
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What year did Hitler make 50 speeches?

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1933

57
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What ere people’s receivers

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Radios that were produced cheaply and received only NAzi broadcasts

58
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By what year did 70% households own a people’s receiver?

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1939

59
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What body regulated the content of foreign and home grown films?

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Reich Film Chamber

60
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HOW many feature films were produced during the regime

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over 1000

61
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what kind of films did Goebbels like to make

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adventures, comedies and romances

62
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Famous Nazi Germany film director

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Leni Riefenstahl

63
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What did Leni Riefenstahl do

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Film director who recorded imp occasions and speeches

64
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What was Riefenstahl’s most famous propaganda film

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‘Triumph of the Will’ which celebrated the Aug 1934 Nuremberg Rally

65
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In 1940 how many antisemitic films were produced eg

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3 incl The Eternal Jew

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