Lesson Seven

Question 1

When was Joseph Goebbels appointed as head of propaganda?

Answer 1

1930.

Question 2

What main two methods of propaganda were employed by Joseph Goebbels in the early years of the party?

Answer 2

1. Political advertisements were targeted at the economic and social issues desired by the people, each accordingly tailored towards what different social classes or geographical regions would likely want to hear.
2. Modern technology to address the entire nation via radio and film. By 1939 a staggering 70% of German homes had a radio, the highest figure in the world.

Question 3

How many newspapers carried out indoctrination (under heavy pressure) by the Nazi Party?

Answer 3

Germany had an unusually large and varied
newspaper industry; over 4,700 different newspapers were published daily. Many of these were bought out by the Nazi Party and were merged into one news conglomerate called the DNB (German News Agency),

Question 4

What was the Editor’s Law of 1933?

Answer 4

A law introduced by the Nazi governmenrt which placed ultimate responsibility on the editor of a paper to meet the requirements of the minister of propaganda or face
arrest.

Question 5

For what main reasons had many army officers initially supported the Nazi Party?

Answer 5

The army had chosen to support the Nazi Party for their

nationalist, authoritarian anti-Weimar agendas.

Question 6

Why were the Army the strongest resisters of the Nazi part despite being their biggest supporters before?

Answer 6

The reality was that the Nazi government was not
the return to the old empire that the conservative army officers had hoped for and resentment began to grow among the more old-styled imperialist officers.

Question 7

Why were students some of the biggest groups of opposition to Nazi Germany despite the indoctrination of youth culture in Germany had mostly been by the Nazi school system and in the Hitler Youth?

Answer 7

The ‘White Rose Group’ was made up of a handful of students from the University of Munich who published and distributed leaflets condemning Hitler and the atrocities that some of the students had seen while serving as medical volunteers in Russia.