The role of propaganda played a very important part in supplying power to the Nazis from 1933 to 1945.
After the Nazis took power in 1933, HItler established a government position of Minister of Enlightenment and Propaganda, filled by Joseph Goebbels. As Minister of Enlightenment and Propaganda, his two main tasks were make sure no one could find or see anything dangering to the Nazi party and ensure that the views of the Nazi party were put across in the most persuasive manner possible. He had to work with the SS (Hitler’s personal army) and the Gestapo (the secret state police) to seek out those who might cause trouble for the party.
The Reichstag fire was an arson attack at the German Parliament building that happened in early 1933. The suspected arsonist, Marinus van der Lubbe, happened to be a Communist party member, so the Nazis made an extremely big deal out of …show more content…
The goal of girls in the League of German Girls was to prepare women for motherhood and raise children who would be educated in the ways of National Socialism. They were indoctrinated with “racial pride” and told to avoid any contact with Jews.
The Hitler Youth was founded in 1928 while the League of German Girls was founded in 1929, and both were based off of a very strict military structure. Both girls and boys had to be very physically fit, in order to provide healthier babies. Many members got to march in parades and felt like they were making their parents and country proud.
Women and men were both equal, however they each had different roles. Propaganda formed women’s roles to be perfect wives and mothers to raise Nazi children. A common phrase used was ‘Kinder, Küche, Kirche’ (children, kitchen, church) to signify the only things women needed to worry about. Men were supposed to fight in the