Propaganda Propaganda
• Propaganda is the use of the media to promote one point of view.
• Propaganda is brainwashing the public, convincing them of an ideological viewpoint.
Propaganda Goebbels
• Minister of Public Enlightenment
• Responsible for running the Nazi Propaganda machine
• Tasked with ensuring views of Nazi party were persuasive.
Propaganda Goebbels
• Goebbels perfected the "Big Lie" technique: a lie, if audacious enough and repeated enough times, will be believed by the masses.
• Do you think that this technique is still used today? Why, where, by whom?
Propaganda Note taking:
Nazi propaganda and censorship
As you look at this Powerpoint, add notes to a mind-map about aspects of Nazi propaganda.
Radio; receiver; Hitler’s speeches
Propaganda Nazi Propaganda
• Posters• Radio• Film• Newspapers• Censorship• Recurrent themes• Goebbel’s influence
Propaganda Nazi Propaganda
themes:
1. Anti-Semitism (anti-Jew)
2. Militarism (uniforms; army)
3. Nationalism (pride in Germany)
4. Supremacy of Aryan race5. Cult of the Fuhrer (Hitler focal point of
nation; god-like figure)
6. Traditional German ‘Volks’ culture
Propaganda Posters
• Posters - cheap & easy to distribute
• Placed in prominent positions
• Constant reminder of Nazi ideology
Propaganda Radio
• Cheap radios were produced: “Volksempfänger” ("People's receiver")
• Volksempfänger could not pick up foreign broadcasts
• Between 1932-39, Radio ownership rose from 25% to 70%
• Radio wardens reported on people’s reactions to specific broadcasts
Propaganda Nazi Cinema
• Showed Hitler + Nazi ideology in a positive light
• Films created to entertain, using Nazi approved story lines
• Film visits quadrupled between 1933 and 1942
• Nazis showed newsreels before start of feature films
Propaganda Newspapers
• 1933:– there were 4,700
daily newspapers, – 3% of those
controlled by NSDAP
• 1944:– 997 daily
newspapers, – 82% controlled by
NSDAP
Propaganda Censorship
• 10 May 1933: largest book burning in Berlin
• Raids on public and private libraries
• Books burned were Jewish, socialist or pacifist by nature
Propaganda Censorship
• Censorship prevents people from hearing anyone else’s ideas
• Do you think censorship exists in today’s world?
In 2002, China banned the search engine Google.
Can you think why?
Propaganda Censorship
• Goebbels aimed to ensure nobody could read/see anything that was hostile/damaging to Nazi party
• He worked with SS & Gestapo to achieve this aim
• What part did the Gestapo/SS have to play in censorship?
How did Hitler keep control of Germany?
Keeping Control of Germany
Everyone was scared of being arrested by the
Gestapo and being put in a concentration camp.
Hitler Youth & the Young Maidens.
Propaganda
Mass Rallies, Posters and Propaganda films.
The Nazis controlled and censored the radio
& newspapers.
School children were indoctrinated with Nazi
ideas at school.
The Terror State
Secret police (Gestapo) would spy on and
arrest enemies of the state.
SS were responsible for running the
concentration camps.
Popularity
Creating Jobs
Using scapegoats to take blame for
problems.
Ripping up the Treaty of Versailles.