Nazi Propaganda

Read Nazi Propaganda - Aims and Methods - Part 1

Using the information and the primary sources describe: (Pgs. 245-247)

a. The chief aims of Nazi propaganda

• the finest kind of propaganda does not reveal itself
• to simplify complicated ways of thinking that even the smallest man in the street may understand
• the nazi state tried to get control over the media and all cultural activities
• to make people believe that they were truely a "peoples government"
• the new ministry has no other aim than to unite the nation behind the ideal of the national revolution
• simultaneously with this political purification of our public life, the government of the reich will under stake  thorough moral purging of the body corporate of the nation

b. The means used to achieve those aims

• penetrating into every cell of life in such a way that the public has no idea of the aims of the propagandaists
• the propagandist must unterstand how to speak not only to the people in their totality, but also to individual sections of the population
• goebbels was the propaganda ministry who supervised a vast machinery for control of all aspects of the media
• nazis exercised this through directing ownership of some forms, by controlling those working in the media, by derecting edia hat to produce, and by prosecuting non-conformist activities
• the entire educational system, the theater, the cinema, the literature, the press and the wireless. they must all serve for the maintenance of the eternal values presented in the essential character of our people

c. Explain how the Nazis used the press, radio, and film as forms of propaganda. (Pgs. 247-253)

• it rigorously controled all those involved- journalists, editors, publishers- through compulsory members of co-ordinating bodies
• in october 1933 a law was made editors responsible for infringements of government directives
• clause 14 obliged editors to exclude from their paper everything 'calculated to weaken the strength of the reich abroad or at home, the resolution of the community, the german defence, culture or the economy, or to injure the religous sensibilities of others, as well as everything offensive to the honor or dignity of a german'
• it was treason to spread false news and rumors
• the RMVP held daily press conferences and issued detailed directives on content, including the length and position of articles
• control was exercised by extending nazi ownership of the press
• radio became on eof the most powerful tools for indoctrination
• goebbels described it as the 'spirtitual weapon of the totalitarian state'
• although mainly used for light entertainment, radio also transmitted hilters key speeches (hitler speaking alone in a radio studio was found not to be effective after october 1933 he did not use one)
• key speeches were announced by sirens and work stopped so all could listen to public loudsoeajers
• radio wardens organised these importnant ' national moments'
• film was seen more as a means of relaxation than directly for explicit propaganda purposes
• in 1933 the four major film companies were allowed to remain as private companies, partly because the government didnt want to harm export sales
• the reich film chamber regulated the content of both german made and imported films
• goebbels made himself responisble for approving every film made in germany
• during the regime over one thousand feature films were produced, with only about 1/6 being overtly propaganists
• the most famous producer was leni riefestahl who was commissioned to make detailed recordings of rallies and festivales, to tell people what was happening and to encourgae inolvement
• films were probably more effective in keeping support for the regime than in indoctrinating people with nazism

d. Explain Goebbels' contribution to the creation and development of the Third Reich

• goebbels contribution to the creation and development of the third reich are very important
• although not the leader of the reich himself goebbels exstremely essential to the rise of the reich
• he sells hitler to the german people as the perfect leader for the time, a man who would be able to leade them out of the current declining situation, being himself extremely faithful
• goebbel was able to rally most of the 1933 support for the NSDAP

Read Nazi Propaganda - other Methods - Part 2

e. Explain how the Nazis used the activities described on pages 254-259 as a form of propaganda.

• mass rallies, most of the participants were likely to be nazi supporters, but their commitment would probably be strengthened through attending such rallies
• they also attracted bystanders who might be won over
• might make even non-partcipants feel they wanted to become part of such an impressive movement
• would use special lighting to make an effect of a concert, 
• the combination of uniforms, disciplined mass movements, stirrinf music, striking flags and symbols, often at night, create a powerful feeling of wishing to belong
• then came the adress by hitler, the master at manipulating mass emotion
• the calendar in nazi german was peppered with new festivals, celebrating key dates in nazi year
• failure to support this might be reported to gestapo
• the government made great efforts so ensure that the 1936 olympics games were a propaganda success
• the new olympic stages existing steel skeleton was clad in stone
• memorials to dead german soldiers were included thus linking sport and militarism
• hitler saw the olympics as an opportunity to display the physical superiority of germans as the master race

Read Nazi Propaganda - Culture - Part 3 and Part 4

f. Explain how the Third Reich used painting, sculpture and architecture for propaganda purposes
(Pgs. 260-270).

• in the new nazi art people were drawn not as REAL indivisuals but just as heroic idealisations: the healthy peasants, the brave warrior, the supreme athlete, the productive women
• hitler was portrayed as the wise, imperious leader,
• they could take away any of the licenses that were given to people in education or arts
• new public building show be embellished by sculputres conveying the nazi message
• portraying stereortyped nazi virtues in perfect but lifeless body shapes
• the individual was dwarfed in front of the building, which represented absolute authority

The Depression and the Nazis

1. Look carefully at Sources 3-7 and 9. For each source, write two sentences explaning whether you think it is evidence that:
Supports the view of Goebbels
Supports the view of Craig
Could be used to support either interpretation
Source 3:
the german people finally recognised that it was hitlers destiny to become germany`s leader. they agreed with goebbels view



Source 4:
the way the strom troopers presented themselves durning the parade in the strrets, the sign of discipline in a time of chaos won people over. this is goebbels veiw


Source 5:
this is against the treaty of versallies the germans found this harsh and unneeded punishment, the poster shows that the germans are sadly locked into the treaty. seems to be goebbels


Source 6:
this is a rally so who ever goes would have to support the nazis and goubbel to be at the rally

Source 7:
what i get from this picture is it is a veiw for craig and is showing how the nazis are so brutal.


Source 9:
this picture shows the nazis election poster but it doesnt show that the people are support goubbel so i would have to say this could go either way.

2. Now work through the text and other sources on pages 191-94. Make a list of examples and evidence that seem to support either viewpoint.

• negatice cohesion is what some people were not taken by
• they only joined over hatred not positive like others
• unable to tackel depression

3. Decide how far you agree with each of the following three statements and give them a score on a scale of 1-5. And then, write a short paragraph explaining your score for each statement.
a. Very few people fully supported the Nazis (Score =3     ) Explanation:
 because they were so negitive and not at all positive not alot of people liked them even though they did have a lot of followers.



b. The Key factor was the economic depression. Without it, the Nazis would have remained a minority fringe party. (Score =  2   ) Explanation: the biggest negitive facotr was a shared dislike od the democracy in weimar germany




c. The politicians of the Weimar Republic were mainly responsible for the rise of the Nazis
(Score =5     ) Explanation:
no one in germany liked the weimar republic, so they were the cause of many things

Nazi Ideology

• the ideas Hitler proposed a society with pure germans citizens that were able to vote, everyonehad freedom of religon athough the party opposes the matericalistic jewish spirit within and beyond us. Hitler wanted take back the territory that the french british and belguims took away from us and even expand beyond that.
• the issues of gravance the party addresses, was that the government would helpand provide for women and childern, they would send the poor families kids to school if they were briliant, the government would pay for the way there.a big one was the party wanted to oblition of the peaces treaties of versilles
• the group of people that would feel threated in different ways by the nazi party, was the rich class because it was filled with jewish bussiness men, that they are "inslaving" the pure germans and giving them little to none of a pay for their works
• the points made in the first and second paragraph, do not show new concepts, values but some new goals for an example that the party wants to make it a pure german race, no jews allowed. the pure germans were going to be the ones running to become powerful and that all germans excluding jews would have equal rights and duties
• the german party was quit effective in attrating support within the local and international community by promising them foods and promising the people all different thingswhile putting the blame on the jews for the loss of the fight, hitler would have never gotten into powerif germany never went into hyperinflation or different crisis moods, everyone was despirt for something, someone with good ideas and bribes and promises of a better time would be qualified
• it inspires support from many of the german citizen it most ly attracted ppor germans, it gave the opportunities for work it caused excitment when what the party said they wuold do started happening when the germans started to throw the jews into the camps

Who Is Hitler?

character

• contemptuous of mankind
• suspicious

propoganda

• hypntoic effect on audience
• supreme master of psychology of mass politics

hitlers basic idea

• germany must expand to take over more territory
• anti marxism hostile to the ideas of karl marx
• replace decomcracy with 1 party state
• anti capitalism power that came from the very rich (jews)
• spoke in favour of socialism

backround

• hitler wanted to be a preist
• used school report as toilet paper
• lives in vienna developing anti sematica anti marxism anti democratic
• joins bavarian regiment only to rise to coporal- considered lack in leadership
• education officer by bavarian political section
• joins DAP
• leader Drexler draws the 25 points up
• becomes fuhrer after he threatens to resign

hitler Mein Kamph

{8}It was absolutely wrong to discuss war-guilt from the standpoint that Germany alone could not be held responsible for the outbreak of the catastrophe; it would have been correct to load every bit of the blame on the shoulders of the enemy, even if this had not really corresponded to the true facts, as it actually did. . . .

1. Hitler agrees with what the people are saying about how its not all germany`s fault for the war, the other countries also contributed for the catastrophic war that went on, but Hitler also believes in fact that it was all the enemies fault that every part of blame should have been put on top of their shoulders not germany`s. that in fact its true that it was not germany`s fault in anyway, germany did nothing wrong.

{16}Now for the first time labor had sunk to the level of an object of speculation for unscrupulous Jewish business men; the alienation of property from the wage-worker was increased ad infinitum. The stock exchange began to triumph and prepared slowly but surely to take the life of the nation into its guardianship and control. . . .

        2. in this Hitler is trying to say that all of germany has fallen under the labors of jewish business men, that they own all of germany, they are under control of the jewish germans that they own the wage workers  

and because of that reason they began to triumph over everyone in the stock exchange and will slowly but surely take over the life of the nation into its guardianship and control

2}But we National Socialists must go further. The right to possess soil can become a duty if without extension of its soil a great nation seems doomed to destruction. And most especially when not some little negro nation or other is involved, but the Germanic mother of life, which has given the present-day world its cultural picture. Germany will either be a world power or there will be no Germany. And for world power she needs that magnitude which will give her the position she needs in the present period, and life to her citizens.

           3. that we must expand germany, that if germany doesnt expand its soil the nation seems to be doomed for destruction. germany is the mother of the life and give cultural pictures to all of its "children" germany will either be the most powerful in the world, or there will be no germany.

{25}No more than Nature desires the mating of weaker with stronger individuals, even less does she desire the blending of a higher with a lower race, since, if she did, her whole work of higher breeding, over perhaps hundreds of thousands of years, night be ruined with one blow.

           4.hitlers talking about how nature doesn't desire matings of jew with pure german race, that if germany was okay with the blending of higher and lower race her whole work for thousands of years would be ruined with one blow

{15}A grave economic symptom of decay was the slow disappearance of the right of private property, and the gradual transference of the entire economy to the ownership of stock companies.

            5.germany economy was going down the drain when germans didnt have to pay rent or any type of household necessities, and it became worse when the entire economy  was given to the owners of jewish stock companies

{22}Any crossing of two beings not at exactly the same level produces a medium between the level of the two parents. This means: the offspring will probably stand higher than the racially lower parent, but not as high as the higher one. Consequently, it will later succumb in the struggle against the higher level. Such mating is contrary to the will of Nature for a higher breeding of all life. The precondition for this does not lie in associating superior and inferior, but in the total victory of the former. The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel, but he after all is only a weak and limited man. . . .
                6.that if the cross breeding between a pure german and a jew should happen the child shall be higher up then the jewish father or mother but not as high as the pure german. the pure germans should not blend iwth the weaker jews. they must dominate the race, if you are born a half jew its cruel because hes a weak limited jew.

{29}The lost purity of the blood alone destroys inner happiness forever, plunges man into the abyss for all time, and the consequences can never more be eliminated from body and spirit.                   7.the lost line of the pure blood german in your family line destroys all happiness forever, that the consequences can be elimintated from the body and spirit because they will always carry the blood of a jewish person they will never be able to become a pure german with jewish blood throughout there body

The Munich Putsch and the Nazis 25- point _program

it was ineffective and was poorly planned, hitler and his stormtroopers, declcared a national revolution. he then forces kahr and lossow into a side room to trying and froce them to state their support for a march on berlin to impose their new government, hitler thought that kahr and lossow would automatacly but it took so much longer, the stormtriiosers seize members of the bavarian goverment . they tried to terrorise their opponents but they fall to gain control of the army barracks. lossow and kahr now issue a proclamtion denouncing the putsch.


.what were the main ideas of the NSDAP when Hitler joined it
if your an german citizen, you should have equality of rights for german people. only members of the stae can be german citizens no jews may be a member of the nation only german citizens can vote they will posses equal rights and duties.
if your child is bright and you dont have the fundings for your child to get an education, the state will pay for him to go to school, there is welfare for the poor german citizens. childern were not aloud to do child labor must do gym to get into good shape.

The Birth of the Weimar Republic

1. Why was it called the Weimar Republic and not the Berlin Republic?
its called this because the new government met in the small town of weimar rather than in the german capital, berlin, berlin was thought to be to violent and unstable


2. What new rights did Friedrich Ebert promise the German people?
announced to the germna people that the new republic was giving them freedom of speech, freedom of worship and better working conditions

3. Hey, a democracy. Sounds great! Why was this a shock to the Germany peoples' systems?
they hoped to return to the kaiser, myth developed that men such as Ebert had stabbed germany in rhw back and caused the defeat in the war

4. What positions did the opposition on the right hold that restricted Friedrich Ebert's new government?
nearly all the kaisers former advisers remained in their positions in the arm, judiciary, civil service and industry.they restricted what the government could do.

5. What was the name of "powerful myth" that developed and what "evidence" was there to support the myth?
the name is "stabbed in the back" and the evidence that supports the myth is that they believed that they had been beaten on the battlefield but that it had been betrayed by its civillian politicans who didnt dar continue the war, the treaty was still a source of betterness in germany when hitler came into power


6. Study Source 3: What position was Ebert elected to in Jan. 1919? Who elected him?
he became president of the weinmar republic and Eberts pary won the majority

7. Study Source 3: How would a Chancellor gain power in the Weimar Republic? (Why you need to know this: By 1933 Hitler will have this job.) the chancellor would gain power by the president apointing him into the chacellor spot who is the presidents right hand man