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Forget Hitler!
German Culture Post WWII/Third REICH
Guten Tag!
Around Germany 1945-55
The Setting-What was going
on?
First Things First -
Reconstruction of
Propaganda and Buildings
Their Writings-Literature
Their Portrayals-Theatre
Their Compositions-Music
Their Background-Meet the
Germans
What Had Happened?
Adolf Hitler
Following the WWI Germany needed and a leader and Hitler seemed to have the best thing going
for him
Was malevolence dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945.
Founded Nazi party that promoted German nationalism, anti-semitism, anti-capitalism, and anti-
communalism
Used foreign policy to seize Lebensraum, living space, for the Aryan people
Began take over of the world, eventually reaching Europe, the Pacific Ocean and parts of Africa
and Asia
Organized forces murdered 17 million civilians, 6 millions of which were Jews in the Holocaust
Committed suicide at the fall of Berlin in 1945
What Had Happened?
Joseph Goebbels
One of Hitler's closest followers
Was appointed to propaganda
minister, thus giving him control of
media, arts, and information sent
out of Germany
Strong believer in the “Big Lie”
technique, that if the principle lie is
audacious enough and repeated
enough times, it will be truth to the
masses
Used his position to
psychologically prepare the
German people for hostile war
What Did Germany Look like?
However the Germans were eager to
Germany was divided and rebuild and had many resources available
the definition of destroyed
due to war and terror
Church Struggle
“We must declare ourselves to be the true Christians. ‘Christianity’ is the watchword for the extermination
of the clerics, just as ‘socialism’ once served to exterminate the Marxist big shots”-Goebbels's describing
National Socialist strategy in the Church Struggle.
•Hitler’s foreign policy and racists goals are made clear in Mein Kampf, until the very end he avoided
declaration of conflict with the church
•Third Reich was stated over and over to take a position of “positive Christianity”
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