1. Propaganda
Key Points

2. Aims
Propogate Hitler’s Weltanschauung- and through this become members of the Volksgemeinschaft
‘The sharpest weapon in maintaining and building up the state’ (Goebbels)
Repression- Propaganda- welded together the political attitudes of the nation

3. Methods ‘It is not enough for people to be more
or less reconciled to our regime….
rather we want to work on people until
they have capitulated to us….until they
grasp ideologically what is happening
is not an end in itself, but a means to
an end’ (Goebbels- 1933)

4. Methods
RMVP- notice the polycratic nature of ministry, Reich Chamber of Culture and Nazi Party propaganda office
Most important- radio and the press
Broadcasting brought under Reich control- Reich Radio company
Press gradually taken over by Nazi publishing house- Eher Verlag
Staff- ‘coordinated’- many dismissed on racial / political grounds

5. Success?
Attitudes
How much are people’s attitudes a result of propaganda- or a result of other factors- other policies, repression
Propaganda can help us explain part of the reason why popularity increased in Weimar Germany
Need to look at the different strands of Propaganda- e.g. much success in creating support for Hitler
Strengthened anti-Semitism?
Counter- productive against the Church
Propaganda as reinforcer of attitudes rather than countering attitudes
Probably didn’t succeed in delivering Hitler’s Weltanschauung- neither did it create a Volksgemeinschaft