Also, the music included in the film. As far as I know the film is historically accurate. According to history this kids wore their hair long to identify themselves, listening to swing music, playing it and dancing it. In addition, most of the German parents wanted their kids to be part of the Nazi Youth Organization, but their kids being part of the "Swing Kids" it was impossible, most of them would break the country rules and steal, until they got catch by the police which would give them two options, send them to work camps or join to the Nazi Youth Organization. This project would be based on the point of view of the film and the research of history in order to find out if this film is completely accurate and find out if the directors left something behind.
Furthermore, it can be argued that propaganda was crucial to the maintenance of power by the Nazis as they portrayed Hitler as powerful and showed him to be good for the country, making sure people continued to show support for the Nazis and it portrayed Hitler as above all party politicking and as a figure for national focus and loyalty. This would have made sure people continued to support Hitler even after he was voted in as they would feel a kind of loyalty towards him. However, Propaganda cannot be described as the only crucial factor in the maintenance of power by the Nazis as propaganda alone cannot change an entire countries views. The introduction of new social controls further aided in the Nazi’s maintenance of power. Anti-Nazi judges were removed and replaced by those
n 1919, Anton Drexler, Gottfried Feder and Dietrich Eckart formed the German Worker's Party (GPW) in Munich. The German Army was worried that it was a left-wing revolutionary group and sent Adolf Hitler, one of its education officers, to spy on the organization. Hitler discovered that the party's political ideas were similar to his own. He approved of Drexler's German nationalism and anti-Semitism but was unimpressed with the way the party was organized. Although there as a spy, Hitler could not restrain himself when a member made a point he disagreed with, and he stood up and made a passionate speech on the subject.
. Was the Reichstag Fire more important than the Enabling Act in allowing Hitler to consolidate power? The activities of the SA were to make sure Nazi meetings were safe and undisturbed. Besides that, the SA is supposed to disrupt other political meetings and support Hitler and the Nazis. Finally, the SA’s activity is also to put fear on the street to get votes for the next elections.
2. Religion (Social Control) Hitler believed that religion was a threat to the Nazis' control over people's mind - so he tried different ways to reduce the power of the church over people. In 1933 Hitler signed the Concordat - he promised not to interfere with the Catholic Church - which was guaranteed freedom to worship and run its own youth organisations and schools. In return the Catholic Church agreed to stay out of politics (this instantly made it harder for it to voice the opinions of the religion nationally.) Within a year, Hitler began to break this agreement and attack the Catholic Church.
Hitler was very adamant about the youth of Germany because his dream of “A Thousand-Year Reich” can only be possible through its youth. This is precisely why the “The Hitler Youth” or “HJ” was created; to target the youth of Germany to assimilate them into their ideologies in attempt to control the minds and actions of the young. This is one of the methods of indoctrination and mass amounts of propaganda executed during Adolf Hitler’s regime to inherit their foundation of beliefs such as prominence or superiority of the German race and hate and annihilation of the Jewish population. “Swing Kids” followed the lives of coming of age teenagers who were faced with situations that questioned their integrity and beliefs. These particular boys Peter, Thomas, and Arvid were best friends and were determined to withstand their friendship through trying times in Nazi Germany.
They uses whatever media they could and looked for places to advertise that targeted the younger population. In some cases they even turned to the public schools to help them change and influence the youth. This aggressive advertising of the thirties overwhelmed the average consumer and even gained attention in the political arena eventually causing legislation to be passed to control and throttle down the add guys. In 1933 the Tugwell bill was passed, this bill regulated false claims made by advertisers. Then in 1938 the pure food and drugs act was finally passed, requiring that the producers had to clearly label the contents of their products and disallowing a lot of harmful fillers in the product.
This is exactly what the Nazi troops or the Germans had to do to obey their higher power. The person conducting the experiment has interests to give orders to the teacher to conflict pain on the learner if the learner gets a wrong answer. This is exactly the same orders Hitler would give to his soldiers to hurt or exterminate the Jews. Even is the teacher didn’t want to hurt the learner, the person conducting the experiment would tell the teacher he is not held responsible to the wrong doing on the learner. With that the teachers would proceed.
Wenger uses the power of unity in his classroom by doing group exercises and marching in time which is awfully reminiscent of the demonstrations Hitler did with his youth. He also uses the anarchy class as the scapegoat or the common enemy for his class, just like Hitler used the Jews, so that his kids would be united. He rearranged the seating to get rid of the usual classroom cliques to make the kids less distracted and so that the kids could help each other out. He supported uniformity, which was also used in the massive demonstrations of Hitler to make the citizens seem as if they were in a collective whole. He made it seem like everyone was participating in the class and ostracized those who weren't, just as Hitler used this situation to make more loyal followers.
What contribution did Joseph Goebbels and Leni Riefenstahl make to Nazi propaganda ? Intro Goebbels and Riefenstahl had an immense effect on Nazi propaganda, Although Hitler came to power in 1933 through democratic means he had to avail of many forms of propaganda in order to grip all aspects of peoples lives; Social, Political, Economic and Personal. With the help of Goebbels and Riefenstahl along with other film makers, Hitler found a way to indoctrinate and brainwash most germans into both following and agreeing with his policies, this paved the way for his totalitarian regime, with the help of Goebbels. Goebbles Goebbels was Hitlers Minister for Propaganda, he was definitely one of the most influential people in Nazi Germany as it was up to him to ensure that the nation was gripped by Hitlers cult of personality, which I personally think Goebbels was more than partly responsible for creating. Goebbels used many means in order to create the personality cult which is credited for keeping Hitlers third reich united.