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By the start of the Second World War, over 70% of German households had one of these radios, ... Nazi propaganda is a relatively recent topic of close study. [147]
German Museum in Munich, featuring a poster of the antisemitic Nazi propaganda film The Eternal Jew (1937) With the establishment of Department V (Film), the Propaganda Ministry became the most important body for the German film industry alongside the Reich Chamber of Culture and the Reich Film Chamber. Initially little changed in the formal ...
Adolf Hitler in the early 1920s, about the time he began writing Mein Kampf (1925). A big lie (German: große Lüge) is a gross distortion or misrepresentation of the truth primarily used as a political propaganda technique.
1923: The "German Day Rally" was held in Nuremberg, 1–2 September 1923. [8] 1926: The 2nd Party Congress ("Refounding Congress") was held in Weimar, 3–4 July 1926. [17] [8] 1927: The 3rd Party Congress ("Day of Awakening") was held in Nuremberg, 19–21 August 1927. [17] [8] The propaganda film Eine Symphonie des Kampfwillens was made at ...
19 August: The German people in a plebiscite overwhelmingly (90%) approve merger of the offices of President and Chancellor. Hitler assumes the new title of Führer und Reichskanzler (leader and Reich chancellor). He is now the head of state, the head of government and the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. [24]
The trial attracted widespread press coverage and gave Hitler a platform for propaganda. [39] Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison, but was released on 20 December 1924, after serving just over a year, including pre-trial detention. [40] Goebbels was drawn to the Nazi Party mostly because of Hitler's charisma and commitment to his ...
Hitler decided not just to incorporate the Sudetenland into the Reich, but to destroy the country of Czechoslovakia entirely. [68] The Nazis undertook a propaganda campaign to try to generate support for an invasion. [69] Top German military leaders opposed the plan, as Germany was not yet ready for war. [70]
Nazi propaganda and officials such as Robert Ley describe Germany as a "proletarian nation" [108] as opposed to plutocratic England, a political divide that Goebbels described as "England is a capitalist democracy" and "Germany is a socialist people's state." [109]