Effectiveness Of Nazi Control Flashcards
What is propaganda?
Making you see things that the government wants you too
Who was the leader of propaganda?
Doctor Joseph goebbels
How did propaganda work in newspapers?
Always put across nazi views.
Non nazi newspaper were taken down or taken over by nazi publishing companies
Each day the press were told what to publish
How effective was the use of newspaper propaganda?
This was a gradual change and most likely went unnoticed by most with limited numbers of newspapers, people read the nazi ones. Many might not of even known that this was going on
How did propaganda work in radios?
Radio stations brought under control so nazi ideals could be broadcasted.
Cheap radios were sold, by 1938 7/10 homes had one
All public places had one, had to be turned on for important messages
From 1938 loud speakers were put up in many city streets
How effective was the use of radios?
Everyone had to listen by default and most people had one and they were in public places
How did propaganda work in books?
Encouraged by goebbels students burnt 20,000 books written by Jews and communists in a mass fire in 1933.
Books shops were raided and forbidden books were taken off shelves
How did propaganda in entertainment work?
It was censored, jazz music and the ‘jitterbug’ dance were banned because they originated from black people.
Films and plays were vetted for nudity and sex scenes.
Modern art was condemned as ‘degenerates’ and thrown out of galleries
How was private talk censored?
There was a law in 1934 ‘law against malicious gossip’ which forbade the telling of nazi jokes and stories. It caught doing so you went to jail and were fined
How effective was the propaganda for Movies, books and music?
It was because no other ideas or another anti Nash things could come into place. This gave Germans only nazi ideas, leaving no room for freedom and individual thought.
How did railed and campaign propaganda work?
Gobblels used rallies to increase people’s loyalty to the party. Each year a rally at the Nuremberg brought thousands of people together. Between railed local SA and hitler youth groups campaigned to raise funds for the party
How effective was rallies?
They were impossible to miss, no one could miss them and if people didn’t attend they were likely to be denounced
What is censorship?
Preventing information from reaching people
