History 2147A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pass Laws, The Eternal Jew (1940 Film), Nuremberg Trials
7 Oct 2015
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All artistic media/popular communication/popular media had roles to play in the larger. Key powerbrokers (hitler and others almost as powerful) were invariably interested in arts and cultural pursuits, put a lot of thought into how the regime should look to the outside world. Important to hitler as we saw last week when he tried to get into art school. Nazi propaganda aimed to strengthen the sense of racial community (volksgemeinschaft) Generally speaking the propaganda sanctioned at the highest levels were supposed to strengthen german racial community (an artificial construct- being german then was different than clarifying as german now) Propaganda is loaded term today (ulterior message or purpose) but wasn"t always that way, means to preach a doctrine or belief. To further social coordination or synchronization (gleichshaltung) in all walks of life. All possible artistic and cultural media would be applied to this end.
