How was censorship enforced over what Germans read and watched?

Editors were given daily instructions on what to print, books by Jewish and left-wing writers were publicly burned, and no film could be shown without approval.

What kind of art and music did the regime approve of, and what did it condemn?

It praised heroic pictures of peasants, soldiers and families and German composers such as Wagner, while modern painting was displayed as degenerate and jazz was banned.

Who was Heinrich Himmler, and what did he command?

The head of the SS, which grew from Hitler's bodyguard into the organisation running the police, the concentration camps and the murder of Europe's Jews.

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Germany, 1890–1945: Democracy and Dictatorship

Nazi control: propaganda, the police state, opposition and resistance

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Overview

Goebbels and the radio, the Nuremberg rallies, censorship and approved art, Himmler, the SS and the Gestapo, the Edelweiss Pirates, the Swing Youth, the White Rose, and Stauffenberg's bomb plot of July 1944.

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Who directed Nazi propaganda, and what did his ministry control?

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How was the radio used to reach ordinary households?

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What were the Nuremberg rallies for?

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Who directed Nazi propaganda, and what did his ministry control?
Model answer
Joseph Goebbels, whose ministry decided what Germans could read in their newspapers, hear on the radio, watch at the cinema and see on the walls.
2
How was the radio used to reach ordinary households?
Model answer
Cheap sets were mass-produced so that almost every home had one, loudspeakers were fixed in streets, cafés and workplaces, and listening to foreign broadcasts was made a crime.
3
What were the Nuremberg rallies for?
Model answer
Vast yearly parades of banners, searchlights and marching columns, staged to display the party's strength and to make each person in the crowd feel part of something irresistible.
4
How was censorship enforced over what Germans read and watched?
Model answer
Editors were given daily instructions on what to print, books by Jewish and left-wing writers were publicly burned, and no film could be shown without approval.
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What kind of art and music did the regime approve of, and what did it condemn?
Model answer
It praised heroic pictures of peasants, soldiers and families and German composers such as Wagner, while modern painting was displayed as degenerate and jazz was banned.
6
Who was Heinrich Himmler, and what did he command?
Model answer
The head of the SS, which grew from Hitler's bodyguard into the organisation running the police, the concentration camps and the murder of Europe's Jews.

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