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List of Nazi propaganda films. The following is a list of German National Socialist propaganda films. Before and during the Second World War, the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda under Joseph Goebbels produced several propaganda films designed for the general public.
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- Articles and Essays
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- Art Exhibitions
The most striking and memorable examples of the Nazi antisemitic propaganda campaign are seen in the form of posters. Making use of stark imagery and explicit racial messages, this media penetrated all sections of German society, literally painting Jews as outsiders and sinister enemies of ‘ordinary’ Germans. The Nazi propaganda machine also used p...
Nazi propagandists exploited pre-existing stereotypes to falsely portray Jews. This hateful view painted Jews as an ‘alien race’ that fed off the host nation, poisoned its culture, destroyed its economy and enslaved its workers. Pro-Nazi newspapers, especially Der Stürmer (‘The Attacker’), frequently ran comics or cartoons depicting Jews as dangero...
Written materials in periodicals and pamphlets took on a more argumentative form, which lent ‘weight’ to the simplistic slogans and caricatures of posters and cartoons. Essays like Kurt Hilmar Eitzen’s 1936 piece ‘Ten Responses to Jewish Lackeys’ were hardly subtle or philosophical, but they provided all manner of reasons to mistrust and hate the J...
Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels’ projects included antisemitic films such as Jud Süss. The film was based on a popular 1925 historical novel written by Lion Feuchtwanger, a successful author who was in fact Jewish. Director Veit Harlan turned Feuchtwanger’s philosophical story, as well as previous interpretations for film and theatre, on i...
‘The Eternal Jew’ exhibition took place in Munich’s German Museum in 1937-38, attracting some 412,300 visitors (more than 5,000 per day) during its first run. These were followed by tours in Vienna and Berlin in 1938-39. Though the Nazi Party line was anti-modern art, the pieces shown at ‘The Eternal Jew’ were distinctly avant-gardein nature, entic...
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In the fall of 1944, Nazi authorities ordered the creation of a propaganda film in Theresienstadt, a ghetto and concentration camp in the German-occupied region of the former Czechoslovakia. 1 The film—a portion of which is featured here—seemed to show Jewish prisoners happy and thriving.
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The Jews were taken in the middle of the night to the synagogue, where they were forced to sing the Nazi Horst Wessel song and the rabbi to read from Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
The Nazi regime and its supporters held many public propaganda events in order to promote the false idea that all Germans were united in support for Nazi goals. These events included rallies, speeches, memorial services, parades, and public book burning ceremonies.
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This footage shows Joseph Goebbels, Nazi minister for propaganda and public education, speaking at the September 1935 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg. In the speech, Goebbels--a fanatic antisemite--linked Bolshevism with international Jewry and warned Nazi party members of an alleged international Jewish conspiracy to destroy western civilization.
Beginning on May 10, 1933, Nazi-dominated student groups carried out public burnings of books they claimed were “un-German.” The book burnings took place in 34 university towns and cities. Works of prominent Jewish, liberal, and leftist writers ended up in the bonfires.
