Nazi Propaganda and Censorship: Controlling Ideas

This Edexcel 9-1 GCSE unit covers around 3 lessons depending upon your class and their overall ability/work rate.

Aims and Objectives:

• To understand the work of Goebbels and the Ministry of Propaganda: censorship, Nazi use of media, rallies and sport, including the Berlin Olympics of 1936.
• To understand Nazi control of culture and the arts, including art, architecture, literature and film.

The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying resources. Activities include a short Derren Brown video to introduce the idea of mind control, last man standing on forms of propaganda, source comparison of Hitler and Goebbel’s methods, a Goebbels CV (possible homeowork), analysis of short extract from Triumph of the Will looking for examples of propaganda at the Nuremberg Rally, rearching examples of both propaganda and censorship and a Chamber of Culture simulation exercise sorting art work into keep and dismiss with discussion.