The Use of Nazi Propaganda

Film

• 1000s of films were made by Nazis-  mostly love stories, comedies, adventures or political films to set example.
• Some were Anti-Jewish, Anti-Communist or Anti-British
• Goebbels wanted people to be entertained- this was how propagand worked best

Radio

• Goebbels used radio extensively to spread Nazi ideas, Hitler's speeches, biassed news and nazi music, which would be played 24/7.
• Goebbels developed the "people's radio"- a cheap reciever that would be given to people too poor to afford an ordinary radio. They could not recieve foreign signals.
• Most public places had to turn on their radios for important Nazi broadcasts.
• From 1938, loud speakers were put up on posts in the street.

Misinformation

• Propaganda sometimes took the form of lies eg. whisper propaganda, planting false rumors 
• School books were rewritten to include nazi ideas

Posters

• Goebbels was a master at posters
• Thousands of  issues could be covered
• Used simple, stark words and images
• Even uneducated people could understand then.

Newspapers

• Nazis took over most newspapers
• Anti-nazi papers were banned
• The Propaganda minsestry issued daily orders to papers.
• People were encouraged to buy nazi papers and were threatened if subscriptions were cancelled.

Berlin Olympics

• The olympics was decided before Hitler came to power,
• Hitler wanted it to show superiority of the Aryan race
• Lots of nazi symbols were on show

Culture and Festivals

• Only Nazi approved music was allowed
• Theatre had to be either German history or nazi political drama
• Many books were banned and taken from the shelves- there was also a special burning of books.
• Many Nazi events were marked with festivals, marches and holidays eg. the anniversary of the Munich Putsch.

Rallies and Campaigns

• Rallies and Campaigns were used to increase people's loyalty to the party
• Each year, a mass rally at Nuremburg brough together thousands of people for parades and displays to raise funds for the party.
• The most popular campaigns were for "One-pot sundays" Where families were expected to cook sunday lunch in a single pot and give the money saved to collectors.

Restrictions on free expressions

• Goebbels used censorship to control people's thoughts
• Books were the first form of expression to be censored as 20000 books were burnt that were written by jews and communists on a huge bonfire in 1933
• Libraries took forbidden books off the shelves and bookshelves were raided.
• Entertainment and culture were censored as jazz music and the jitterbug dance were banned, purely because they oiginated from black people.
• Modern art was condemmed as "Degenerate" and thrown out of galleries.
• Films and plays were vetted for nu.dity and s.e.x scenes.
• There was a law against malicious gossip in 1934- forbidding anti-nazi jokes and stories