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Hessy Levinsons Taft (born Hessy Levinsons; 17 May 1934), [1] a Jewish German, was featured as an infant in Nazi propaganda after her photo won a contest to find "the most beautiful Aryan baby" in 1935. Taft's image was subsequently distributed widely by the Nazi party in a variety of materials, such as magazines and postcards, to promote Aryanism.
The NS-Frauen-Warte ("National Socialist Women's Monitor") was the Nazi magazine for women. [1] Put out by the NS-Frauenschaft, it had the status of the only party approved magazine for women [2] and served propaganda purposes, particularly supporting the role of housewife and mother as exemplary.
The desire to abolish 1920s fashion in Nazi Germany was consistent with Nazi propaganda which was insistent on limiting women to the private sphere as housewives and mother figures. [ 41 ] While the Nazi government sought to create a maternal ideal for the Aryan woman, they also sought financial gain from the textile industry. [ 42 ]
Propaganda was a crucial tool of the German Nazi Party from its earliest days in 1920, after its reformation from the German Worker’s Party (DAP), to its final weeks leading to Germany's surrender in May 1945. As the party gained power, the scope and efficacy of its propaganda grew and permeated an increasing amount of space in Germany and ...
[80] Approximately 1,363 feature pictures were made during Nazi rule (208 of these were banned after World War II for containing Nazi Propaganda). [81] Every film made in Nazi Germany (including features, shorts, newsreels, and documentaries) had to be passed by Joseph Goebbels himself before they could be shown in public. [82]
Paul Joseph Goebbels (German: [ˈpaʊ̯l ˈjoːzɛf ˈɡœbl̩s] ⓘ; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician and philologist who was the Gauleiter (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945.
Riefenstahl became one of the few women in Germany to direct a film during the Weimar era when, in 1932, she decided to try directing with her own film, The Blue Light. [5] In the latter half of the 1930s, she directed the Nazi propaganda films Triumph of the Will (1935) and Olympia (1938), resulting in worldwide attention and acclaim. The ...
Mildred Gillars, a German American who broadcast for Nazi Germany. [1] [2] She was "the first woman in US history to be convicted of treason" [3] by the United States and following her arrest in Berlin, "on 8 March 1949 was sentenced to ten to thirty years' imprisonment." [3] Rita Zucca, an Italian American who broadcast for Fascist Italy. [4] [5]