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Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–39

Controlling and influencing attitudes

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Overview

Goebbels's Ministry of Propaganda, control of newspapers, the People's Receiver, the Nuremberg Rally, the Berlin Olympics and Jesse Owens, the book burnings of 1933, approved and degenerate art, Speer's architecture, cinema and Riefenstahl, the Concordat and its breaking, and the Reich Church.

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Key term

What post did Joseph Goebbels hold from 1933, and what did it cover?

Key term

How were newspapers brought under control in Nazi Germany?

Key term

What was the Nuremberg Rally and what was it designed to achieve?

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  1. 1

    What post did Joseph Goebbels hold from 1933, and what did it cover?

    Model answer

    Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, giving him charge of everything Germans read, watched and listened to.

  2. 2

    How were newspapers brought under control?

    Model answer

    Jewish and anti-Nazi papers were shut, surviving editors were told each day what to print, and journalists who disobeyed lost their jobs or their liberty.

  3. 3

    How did the regime get radio into ordinary German homes?

    Model answer

    It mass produced a cheap set called the People's Receiver, too weak to pick up foreign stations, and put loudspeakers in streets, cafés and factories.

  4. 4

    What was the Nuremberg Rally and what was it designed to achieve?

    Model answer

    A vast yearly gathering of marching columns, banners and searchlights, staged so that every German present felt part of an irresistible movement.

  5. 5

    Why were the Berlin Olympics of 1936 valuable to the Nazis?

    Model answer

    A huge new stadium and a faultlessly organised games were meant to show the world German efficiency and the supposed superiority of the Aryan race.

  6. 6

    How did the Berlin Olympics embarrass the regime?

    Model answer

    The black American athlete Jesse Owens won four gold medals, publicly contradicting Nazi claims about race.

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