PROPAGANDA

• Hitler's cult of the Führer

  • Presenting himself as the greatest saviour of Germany
  • His image was used very carefully - he was only ever shown serving Germany
• Goebbels (Hitler's Propaganda Minister)

  Made sure that people were bombarded with information to keep them loyal to the Nazis
• Propaganda methods


  1. Posters

  2. Pictures

  3. Art exhibitions

  4. Films
• Posters, pictures, art exhibitions and films were all made to show how great the Nazis were
• Hitler's speeches


  1. Regularly broadcast on the radio

  2. To remind people of how much the Nazis were improving their lives
• Cheap radios were sold to people and connected up to loudspeakers so that everyone could hear
• Censorship


  The newspapers were banned from printing anything that hadn't been checked by the Nazis first
• Nazi rallies


  1. Great rallies were held, such as those at Nuremberg

  2. To show people how organised and powerful the Party was
• In 1936, Hitler used the Olympic Games to showcase to the world how efficient, modern and advanced the German nation was