Hundreds of voices would rally on their support, as Hitler, or as they referred to him, Führer, ranted and raged in his speeches about the Jews. “Goebbels also used radio broadcasts to spread the word of Nazism abroad. He wanted to convey to the world the idea that Nazism was an acceptable political idea and his first radio broadcasts were performances by some of Germany’s top orchestras and opera singers. Once this approach had bedded down, he introduced a system whereby little messages were broadcast piece by piece – spreading the words of Hitler in a minimalistic way at first. The broadcasts covered all of Western Europe and a huge broadcasting station at Seesen, near Berlin, ensured that broadcasts could be heard around the world. By 1938, shortwave broadcasts were being transmitted 24 hours a day in twelve different languages,” (History Learning …show more content…
Many authors suffered with their writing during the reign of Adolf Hitler because the government controlled what they wrote about during that time, and they had no control over how it was released to the public. During this time of war, their writings, as well as many people’s art and music, was either accepted by the Nazi government or wasn’t. This determined whether the music, art, or literature was released to the people of Germany as well as the rest of the world or not. “Literature, along with art and music, suffered greatly in Nazi Germany. As with other aspects of culture, a very simple rule existed for literature: it was either acceptable to the Nazi state or it was not. As a result a number of internationally recognised authors left Nazi Germany for their own safety while the state gave prominence to authors who wrote about what the government expected them to: the glorification of war, the glorification of the Aryan ideal, the glorification of Adolf Hitler, the glorification of Nazi Germany etc.,” (History Learning