How did the Nazis control the Arts?
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- How did the Nazis control the Arts?
- Music
- Jazz, which was 'black music' was seen as racially inferior and banned.
- The Nazis encouraged traditional German folk music together with Classical music.
- Theatre
- Concentrated on German history and political drama.
- Cheap tickets were available to encourage people to see plays often with a Nazi political or racial theme.
- Architecture
- Hitler encouraged the 'monumental style' for public buildings.
- These showed the power of the Third Reich.
- Copies from Ancient Greece or Rome.
- The 'country style' was used for family homes and hostels - traditional buildings to encourage pride in Germany's past.
- Hitler encouraged the 'monumental style' for public buildings.
- Art
- Hitler had earned a living as an artist so believed he was an expert.
- He hated modern art (any developed under the Weimar Republic).
- Encouraged art which highlighted Germany's past greatness and the strength and power of the Third Reich.
- Hitler wanted art to reject the weak and ugly and to glorify the healthy, strong heroes.
- Paintings showed:
- The Nazi idea of the simple life.
- Hard work as heroic.
- The perfect Aryan.
- Women in their preferred role as housewives and mothers.
- Music
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