WWII ; control through propaganda/terror Flashcards

1
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Name 3 ‘terror’ ways Nazis used to control Germans.

A

concentration camps
the gestapo
informers

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Name 3 ‘propaganda’ ways Nazis used to control Germans.

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books
radio
films

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Describe concentration camps.

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anyone who was against the Nazis were held here. (jews, communists, socialists, etc.)
they question, torture, do hard labour, force Nazi ideas onto them.

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Describe the Gestapo.

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these are state secret polices.
they could tap telephones, open mail, collect info from network of informers (report people who are anti-nazi)
they arrest, torture and imprison at concentration camps.

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Describe informers.

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every town was divided into blocks.
each block had a warden who visits every home weekly, collect donations, check up on everyone, write a report on everyone.

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Describe propaganda books.

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Nazis burned books by jews, communists, socialists, etc., anyone they disliked or contained ideas they disapproved

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Describe propaganda radio.

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70% Germans owned a radio.
Goebbels controlled all radio.
some local programs are: Hitler’s speeches, german music and german history

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Describe propaganda films.

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Goebbels controlled every film made.

a germany propaganda message was always shown before a movie.

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