nazi control of culture and the arts

• MUSIC

  • hated modern music
  • jazz was banned
  • seen as racially inferior + was banned as jazz is usually made by black people
  • promoted german folk music
• FILMS

  • films glorified Hitler + Germany
  • political messages
  • made anti-nazis look like villains
• ART

  • hated modern art
  • based off on downfall of germany
  • tried making people aware
• THEATRE

  • concentrated on german history + political drama
  • contained nazi politics + racial theme
• ARCHITECTURE

  • encouraged the monumental style
  • large stone buildings
  • copies from ancient greece + rome
  • showed power
• LITERATURE

  • books,plays,poems= censored + controlled to get nazi message through