Propaganda In Nazi Germany

Adolf Hitler, leader of Nazi Germany, wrote in his book Mein Kampf, “propaganda ties to force a doctrine on the whole people…Propaganda works on the general public from the standpoint of an idea and make them ripe for the victory of this idea,” (Nazi Propaganda). During the time of Nazi Germany, most Jews along elderly, the disabled, and those in the arts were being sent away to concentration camps (Nazi Propaganda). The Musicians that were being thrown into these camps were seen as threats to the government. They did not have the views or values that aligned with the government. Through the propaganda in the art, music, theater, films, books, radio, education, and the press it helped to to create a sense of unity and the ideals of National …show more content…
They would alter the history, musicology, and biographies to create cultural symbolism, by imprinting their values into the music. Newspapers, such as the Völkischer Beobachter, displayed anecdotes to display the various musicians on how they were affiliated to the Nazi government. These anecdotes include Patriotism, militarism, anti-Semitism, Francophobic, and Anglophobia. The three main “Serious,” or classical, composers that were seen as great depictions of Nazi values and used as propaganda were Johann Sebastian Bach, Joseph Haydn, and Mozart (Dennis, …show more content…
His music was seen as a way to calm the storm. The music was so powerful and made citizens believe in their country so much that it can “resist all radical efforts at revolution,” (Dennis, 2002). To make Haydn have more patriotism, on of the Nazi values, the Nazi Government even made fictional accounts about his time in England, and how depressed he was because he missed Germany so much. After he passed away, Nazi newspapers only focused on his composing of the national anthem and mentioned nothing about his thousands of other pieces to maintain the nationalism in his music (Dennis,