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Germany: Democracy and Dictatorship c.1918-1945

Propaganda, terror and the extent of Nazi control

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Overview

Goebbels's official position, führer myth and white Rose group.

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Who were the Edelweiss Pirates and the Swing Youth?

Numbers

What was Goebbels's official position, and what did it cover?

Key term

How was the press brought under control?

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  1. 1

    What was Goebbels's official position, and what did it cover?

    Model answer

    He was Minister for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda from 1933, with authority over the press, radio, film, theatre, music, literature and art.

  2. 2

    How was the press brought under control?

    Model answer

    Opposition papers were closed or bought up, editors were made legally responsible for content, and daily instructions told them what to print and what to ignore.

  3. 3

    Why was radio so important to the regime?

    Model answer

    A cheap set was mass-produced so that most households could afford one, loudspeakers were placed in factories and streets, and Hitler's voice could reach the whole nation at once.

  4. 4

    What were the Nuremberg rallies for?

    Model answer

    Vast annual displays of discipline, light and mass unity, designed to overwhelm the individual and to be filmed for those who could not attend.

  5. 5

    How did the regime use the Berlin Olympics of 1936?

    Model answer

    As an advertisement to foreign visitors of an orderly and modern Germany, with anti-Jewish signs temporarily removed and persecution briefly softened.

  6. 6

    What happened to German culture under the Nazis?

    Model answer

    Books by Jewish, socialist and modernist authors were publicly burned, modern art was exhibited as degenerate, and artists, writers and musicians had to belong to the Reich Chamber of Culture to work at all.

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