Controlling attitudes

Methods by Goebels

• Censorship of press = newspapers controlled by government

• Radio broadcasts = all radios controlled by Goebels’ ministry

• Mass rallies = involved music, speeches and demonstrations of German strength

• Sports events = opportunity to show success of the regime and demonstrate superiority of Aryan race

Control of art

• Weimar period saw flourish of German art - mostly abstract

• Hitler saw this as ‘degenerate’

• Over 6500 works removed from display

• Hitler encouraged ‘Aryan art’

• Showed physical and military strength of Germany and Aryan race

Control of architecture

• Hitler was interested in architecture

• Believed it could be used to show power

• Albert Speer = important architect

• Berlin was redesigned and Nuremberg stadium built

Control of literature

• Mass book burnings in 1933

• Mostly Jewish authors‘ work burnt

Control of theatre

• Works by certain writers banned

• Nazi-produced political plays and musicals were unpopular

• Regime allowed classics such as Shakespeare to be played

Control of film

• Goebels saw film as escapism for Germans

• Directors such as Leni Riefenstahl created patriotic films

Control of music

• Works by Jewish composers banned

• Works of Wagner promoted