Key topic 3: Controlling and influencing attitudes
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- Goebbels and propaganda
- Censorship
- No book could be published without Goebbels' permission
- Newspapers that opposed Nazi views were closed down and editors were given rules on what they could print
- The radio was controlled
- Key topic 3: Controlling and influencing attitudes
- Nazi Control of the arts
- Music
- Hitler hated modern music
- Jazz, which was seen as 'black' music was seen as racially inferior and was banned
- Instead, the Nazis promoted traditional folk music and classical music
- Jazz, which was seen as 'black' music was seen as racially inferior and was banned
- Hitler hated modern music
- Films
- The Nazis controlled the cinema
- All films were accompanied with a 45- minute official newsreel
- This newsreel glorified Hitler and Germany
- All films were accompanied with a 45- minute official newsreel
- The Nazis controlled the cinema
- Art
- Hitler hated modern art
- such art was called 'degenerate' and banned
- Art highlighting Germany's past greatness and the strength of the Third Reich was encouraged
- Hitler hated modern art
- Theatre
- Theatre concentrated on German history and political drama
- Cheap tickets were available to encourage people to see plays wwhich often had a Nazi, political or racial theme
- Theatre concentrated on German history and political drama
- Architecture
- Hitler encouraged the 'monumental' style for public buildings.
- These large stone buildings were often copied from ancient Greece or Rome
- They showed the power of the Third Reich
- These large stone buildings were often copied from ancient Greece or Rome
- Hitler admired Greek and Roman architecture because the Jews had not 'contaminated' it
- Hitler encouraged the 'monumental' style for public buildings.
- Literature
- All books and plays were controlled to put across the Nazi message
- May 1933- Students in Berlin burnt 20,000 books written by Jews, communists and anti-Nazi university professors.
- Music
- Nazi Control of the arts
- Propaganda
- Posters were used to spread the Nazi message
- Goebbels ordered the mass production of cheap radios to spread the Nazi message
- Mass rallies and marches projected the Nazi image of power and terror
- success in sport was needed to promote Nazi image
- The Berlin Olympics 1936
- The Olympics were designed to impress the outside world
- All anti-Jew signs were removed from Berlin
- Hilter's plans to show the superiority of the Aryan race were ruined by the success of Jesse Owens
- Censorship
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