9th Class Social Science Nazism & the Rise of Hitler Question Bank 9th CBSE Social Science Nazism & the Rise of Hitler

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      Had media played any role in the propaganda of Nazi regime? .

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                      (i) Media was carefully used to win support for the regime and popularise it worldwide. (ii) Nazi ideas were spread through visual images, films, radio, posters, catchy slogans and leaflets. (iii) In posters, groups identified as the 'enemies' of Germans were stereotyped, mocked, abused and described as evil. (iv) Socialists and liberals were represented as weak and degenerate. (v) They were attacked as malicious foreign agents. (vi) Propoganda films were made to create hatred for Jews. (vii) The most infamous film was 'The Eternal Jews'. Orthodox Jews were stereotyped and mocked. (viii) They were shown with flowing beards wearing kaftans, whereas in reality it was difficult to distinguish German Jews by their outward appearance because they were a highly assimilated community. (ix) They were referred to as vermin, rats and pests. Their movements were compared to those of rodents. (x) Nazism worked on the minds of the people, tapped their emotions and turned their hatred and anger at those marked as 'undesirable'.


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