Propaganda

Question 1

What were the key aims of Nazi propaganda?

Answer 1

Persuasion
1) to vote NSDAP before 1933 and 2) to support the regime after 1933
Social Control
Indoctrination

=create the Volksgemeinschaft

Question 2

When was the Ministry of Propaganda established?

Answer 2

13th March 1933

Question 3

Why was Alfred Rosenberg a significant figure in the third Reich?

Answer 3

His organisation (the Rosenberg Office) had official oversight of cultural policy as well as surveillance of ideological belief within the party

Question 4

State some methods of Nazi propaganda

Answer 4

=same messages repeated to make political arguments seem true
=consistent barrage of images of Nazi power and triumphalism
=complete control over the media and the news
=control of people’s perception of the world by overwhelming them with constant similar imagery

e.g The Volksempfanger 301 (People’s receiver)

Question 5

Why was the people’s receiver so successful?

Answer 5

Half the price of other radios
In 1933 25% of households owned a radio, by 1939 70%
Sate radio not all propaganda = populist entertainment kept people listening, lured them into hearing approved party new and speeches

Question 6

State some Nazi festivals

Answer 6

30th Jan- The Seizure of Power
20 April- Hitler’s Birthday
September- Nuremberg Party rally
9 November- The Munich Putsch
Winter Solstice= Pagan festivals to counter Christmas

Question 7

How did the Nazi’s use propaganda to influence education and the youth?

Answer 7

=Hitler Youth
= April 1933 Law against the Overcrowding of German Schools and Universities
=1934 Nazi ideology made compulsory and embedded throughout the school curriculum e.g eugenics

Question 8

When did Book burning take place?

Answer 8

May 1933, Goebbels organised public burning of “degenerate” books
this included anything containing communism, Jewish authors or liberal/ democratic ideology supporting Weimar Republic

Question 9

When was the Berlin Olympics?

Answer 9

1936= majorly propagandized

Question 10

What was the Hitler Myth?

Answer 10

1941- Goebbels creation of the “Hitler Myth” as his greatest success
presented Hitler as a “man of the people”
hard working, political genius
Reality:
Lazy
By 1934 the Hitler cult helped consolidate power quickly and hid failures of the regime