Nazi Germany
- total control of all media formats
- total “branding” of a people
- Paul Joseph Goebbels: Reichsminister of Propaganda,1933 to 1945
- revolutionised propaganda e.g. ‘The Eternal Jew’ (1940)
- employed the entertainment industry e.g. ‘The Triumph of the Will’ (1935) dir. Leni Reifenstahl
Designers:
Walter Heck:
graphic designer
designed the Schutzstaffel
(SS) insignia Dr. Karl Diebitsch:
Artist
Together designed the all-black SS uniform, introduced 1932
Swastika:
- good luck symbol in Indo-European culture
- Sanskrit "svastika“; means "good to be"
- Hitler responsible for it‟susage by the Nazis:
- "I myself, meanwhile, after innumerable attempts, hadlaid down a final form; a flag with a red background, a white disk, and a black swastika in the middle. After long trials I also found a definite proportion between the size of the flag and the size of the white disk, as well as the shape and thickness of the swastika.“
- Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf (1926)
NB: Resistance within Nazi Germany :
- „The White Rose‟
- pacifist, intellectual group
- students and a professor form Munich
- University
- leaflet campaign
- The Edelweiss Pirates‟
- working class activists
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