Third Reich Art Propaganda

     The only art created in Germany  between the years of 1933 and 1945 was the art offically aprooved by the Third Reich. This type of art was known as Romantic Realism, a style of art that was bassed on classical models and nature. The modern style or "Degenerate" art (a word used by Nazies to discribe all art that did not meat their standard.) was also named "Blut und Boden" which meant blood and soil on the ideology of racial purity.

     Music was as well another form of art that was controlled by the Third Reich durring this period. All music was to be compleatly tonal and free of any Jazz style influences. The National Socialist Regime made and constant effort of shunning all modern music such as Jazz and Caberet. Durring the war, art was stolen from the fine museums and displays fom all the places the Germans to over such as Poland and France.

"Nazi Aprooved" Art

     Art was one of the most important elements to the Third Reich. They allowd cirtain types of art that they thought would "purify" the Nation. Useing they're propaganda films, liturature, speaches and rumors they twisted art and politics in to one element. They molded the veiws and oppinions of the people through stereotyped art concepts.

     Hitler's veiw of "True Art" was directly linked to country life, anciant cultures such and Rome and Greece, and decaying ruins that suggested great civilazations once inhabbited them. His favorite form of art was architecture. He designed and even attempted to build many of his own architectural creations, some of wich were designed to eventually fall and form ruins. Any form of modern art was destroyed, mocked and gennerally frowned upon by all members of the Third Reich. There were two official Third Reich artists. One of wich was Josef Thorak, who was given a huge studio near Munich in 1938. 

Another form of propaganda art was film. Film was one of the most promenent ways the Third Reich bended the minds of the public. Film was used to create oppinions in the public. They would film everything in exactly the way they wanted people to see it. Hitler's official film director was Leni Riefenstahl. She directed a film entitled "Triumph of the Will" It dipicted Hitler in a fabulous postion of near godliness that would have people predisposed to thinking the thoughts the film wanted them to.

     Bending The Minds Of The Public

     The Nazis were also consious about useing cartoons. These cartoons depicted the country of Germany as being the innocent Nation on which war had been forced. Generaly the cartoons would never depict Hitler himself. Winston Churchill was one of the most famous cartoonists of the Nazi era. He also served as the United Kingdom's Prime Minister in 1940, and was a Nobel Prize winning writer.

      Postage Stamps were another conveinent way of portraying propaganda. Most of the propagnada postage stamps showed pictures of the 1934 Nuremburg Party Rally. Stamps were made for almost every special occation: Hitler's birthday, the 10th anaversary of the Nazi seizure of power, the commemoration of the Munich Beer Hall, and stamps tha depicted war themes.

     Art was also used to compare fabulous modern art with mentally challenged and deformed people. This was probably the most affective form of propaganda that altered everyone's oppinion about art compleatly. They used this same method in several different ways, such as comparing jews to rats and vermin. This was to make people think that the jews carried sickness and disease and that they were to be avoided. The jews were forced to live in ghettos

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"TRIUMPH OF THE WILL" LENI RIFENSTAHL 1935

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