Activity 6.6:What were the problems facing

Goebbels in 1933?

Newspapers

• No real national newspapers

• 4700 local papers• Some Jewish

owned• Nazi papers had

small circulation

Newspapers: What do you think Goebbels might have done?

Radio• Radio vital to Hitler and

Goebbels• Much radio was local• Goering wanted to

control Prussian radio• Goebbels wanted

complete control• Problem of getting

people to listen – radios expensive

Radio: What do you think Goebbels might have done?

Films

• Very important for propaganda

• Germans used to very high standard

• Would they watch political films?

Films: What do you think Goebbels might have done?

Festivals and celebrations

• Successful in winning over people

• Now had to keep people loyal

• What should rallies, etc. be like?

• Which events to celebrate?

Festivals: What do you think Goebbels might have done?

Culture

• Nazis hated Weimar culture as it undermined traditional German values

• How to control artists and writers?

• What to do about existing art, books, films, plays which are unacceptable?

Culture: What do you think Goebbels might have done?