propoganda

• the 30th Jan was made an annual festival to celebrate 'day of the seizing of power'
• Editor's law of 1933 ensured newspapers published Nazi views as communist and socialist papers closed
• press and media told what to say and heavily censored
• quality of journalism fell
• Goebbels dismissed 13% of staff on political and radical grounds, involved with the media, and replaced with Nazi's
• 'I am replacing a major responsibility in your hands, for you have in your hands the most modern instrument in existence for influencing the masses. By this instrument you are the creators of public opinion'
• There were 4700 daily newspapers in 1933 however by 1939 Eher Verlag brought newspapers and controlled 2/3
• for the 1936 Olympics Nazi's wanted to control media so had 300 microphones, radio broadcasts in 28 languages, 4 hour film 'Olympia' released in 1938, broadcasts seen by 150,000. Nazi's wanted to portray success.
• propaganda to spread Nazi values, glorify war and the Aryan race
• Helped create the Hitler myth which strengthened Germany
• by 1939 70% of people owned radio compared with 25% in 1933
• 'radio wardens' placed on every street so people could not escape Nazi propaganda
• Jazz forbidden and music by Jews or 'degenerates' forbidden
• The Reich chamber of literature listed banned books
• Heil Hitler greeting, Horst Wessel anthem, uniforms
• in the Olympics Black American Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals which contrasted the Nazi Aryan dream
• Jewish film such as Fritz Lang removed
• propaganda such as 'the eternal jew' portrayed Jews as rats