controlling and influencing attitudes

• censorship + propaganda were used to ensure that people accepted and conformed to nazi thinking
• censorship= controlling/banning info
• 1933- goebbels was appointed as minister of public propaganda and enlightenment
• CENSORSHIP

  • no book could be published without goebbels permission
  • newspapers that opposed nazi views were closed down
  • editors were told what could be printed
  • radio was controlled
• PROPAGANDA

  • posters were used to put across nazi message
  • goebbels ordered mass production of cheap radios
  • so that nazi message could be heard by everyone
  • mass rallies + marches projected image of power + terror
  • every year a party rally was held at nuremberg
• success in sport was important to promote nazi regime

  • berlin olympics of 1936
  • designed to impress the outside world
  • made sport all about nazis
  • built olympic stadium (largest in the world)
  • games filmed for nazi propaganda