PROPAGANDA IN NAZI FILM BY NATASHA LEMMON PROPAGANDA

PROPAGANDA IN NAZI FILM BY: NATASHA LEMMON

PROPAGANDA WAS THE KEY TO ADOLF HITLER MAINTAINING POWER. • THE NAZI PARTY CONTROLLED ALL MASS MEDIA THROUGHOUT GERMANY. • NAZIS STAGED FALSE ATTACKS TO GAIN THE SUPPORT OF GERMANY IN INVADING POLAND. • GERMAN MOVIES DURING AND AFTER WORLD WAR II PERCEIVED HILTER AS A HERO.

REICH MINISTRY OF PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT AND PROPAGANDA • (1933) WAS CREATED TO CENTRALIZE NAZI CONTROL OF ALL ASPECTS OF GERMAN CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL LIFE. GOAL WAS TO PRESENT TO OTHER NATIONS THE IMPRESSION THAT THE NAZI PARTY HAD THE FULL AND ENTHUSIASTIC BACKING OF THE ENTIRE POPULATION.

OPERATION HIMMLER 1939 • FALSE FLAG PROJECT PLANNED BY THE NAZIS TO MAKE IT SEEM LIKE POLAND HAD AGGRESSION AGAINST GERMANY. • GERMAN TROOPS DRESSED IN POLISH UNIFORMS WOULD STORM BUILDINGS, SCARE PEOPLE WITH INACCURATE SHOTS AND LEAVE BEHIND DEAD BODIES. (OFTEN CONCENTRATION CAMP PRISONERS) • USED TO JUSTIFY THE INVASION OF POLAND. Heinrich Himmler

HEIMKEHR (1941) • GERMAN FOR “HOMECOMING” • DIRECTED BY GUSTAV UCICKY • ATTEMPTS TO JUSTIFY THE INVASION OF POLAND BY "SHOWING" HOW ETHNIC GERMANS IN POLAND WERE ABUSED AND DISCRIMINATED BY THE POLISH AND HOW THEY WERE SAVED FROM EXTINCTION BY THE BRAVE GERMAN ARMY. • RECEIVED THE HONOR OF "FILM OF THE NATION" IN NAZI GERMANY, ONLY GIVEN TO FILMS THAT HAVE MADE AN EXCEPTIONAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE NATIONAL CAUSE.

• THIS FILM IS A COMPLETE WORK OF FICTION, YET IT IS PRESENTED AS HISTORIC FACT. • HOMECOMING IS STILL BANNED FROM GERMAN TV DUE TO THE FACT A YOUNG PERSON MAY WATCH THE FILM AND DEVELOP A NEGATIVE VIEW OF THE POLISH PEOPLE OR FALSELY BELIEVE THAT THE INVASION OF POLAND WAS JUSTIFIED.

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SOURCES • EVANS, RICHARD J. (2005). THE THIRD REICH IN POWER. NEW YORK: PENGUIN. ISBN 978 -0 -14303790 -3. • ROGER MANSVILL HEINRICH FRAENKEL, HEINRICH HIMMLER: THE SS, GESTAPO, HIS LIFE AND CAREER, SKYHORSE PUBLISHING INC. , 2007, ISBN 1 -60239 -178 -5 P. 76 • HOLOCAUST ENCYCLOPEDIA | UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM. DECEIVING THE PUBLIC | THE HOLOCAUST ENCYCLOPEDIA. RETRIEVED NOVEMBER 23, 2019, FROM HTTP: //ENCYCLOPEDIA. USHMM. ORG/CONTENT/EN/ARTICLE/DECEIVING-THE-PUBLIC • STOUT, MICHAEL J. , " E E ECTIVENESS OF NAZI PROPAGANDA DURING WORLD WAR II" (2011). MASTER'S ESES AND DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS. 314. H P: //COMMONS. EMICH. EDU/THESES/314 • NEW YORK TIMES: HEIMKEHR (1941)". NY TIMES. RETRIEVED 2010 -10 -30.