Propaganda And Sensorship

Question 1

What is propaganda?

Answer 1

❑It persuades the public to do or believe in something.
❑It promoted the ideas the Nazis wanted the German people to believe in.

Question 2

What is censorship?

Answer 2

❑Blocks information from the public.
❑Banned negative ideas about the Nazis - people only heard good things.
❑Banned anything that did not match their views.

Question 3

Joseph Gobbels

Answer 3

❑Was responsibility for organising propaganda and censorship.
❑Hitler made him Minister of Propaganda and Enlightenment in 1933.

Question 4

Different types of propaganda

Answer 4

The Nazi Party was so keen to manipulate every part of people’s lives that they even targeted German ‘culture’ and the arts.
Literature (books), paintings, illustrations, music, comics, film and even architecture (building design) were used to persuade the Germans of the power, strength and control of the regime.
Making sure the whole population was ‘synchronised’ and ‘brought in line’ with Nazi beliefs was known as Gleichschaltung

Question 5

Degenerate or aryan?

Answer 5

Any piece of art or literature that did not match the views of the Nazis was known as DEGENERATE.
Any art, music, literature classed as degenerate would be taken away and likely burned.

Question 6

Nazi propaganda

Answer 6

Nazi’s controlled propaganda in a number of ways.
• Most newspapers were bought up by Eher Verlag, the Nazi Publishers and by 1939 the Nazis
owned 69% of all newspapers in Germany.
• Newspapers speaking out against the regime were shut down.
• The Editors’ Law held newspaper editors personally responsible for anything printed in their papers and had to attend daily press meetings with the Nazi Party where they were told what to print.
• Only approved journalists could have work published.
• Posters with powerful messages were put up in public spaces.
• All radio stations were under Nazi Control and foreign stations were blocked.
• Radio sets were made cheap and people encouraged to buy them called ‘People’s Receivers’ made by the Reich Radio Company that could only pick up Nazi stations.
• By 1939 70% of houses had a radio, the highest % in the world.
• Loud speakers were erected in public spaces and workplaces.
• Nazis had their own films made, like Triumph of Will (1934) about the Nuremburg Rally and
Eternal Jew (1940) promoting hatred.