Transcript Where did power lie in the Third Reich?

How successful was Nazi
propaganda?
Test your memory
Using your play-doh:
• Make a model to show the area in which you
think Nazi propaganda was most effective and
be ready to explain why
Lesson objectives
By the end of this lesson you should:
• Have organised the evidence you have been
collecting and planned an answer to a question
on propaganda
How successful was
Nazi propaganda?
For homework you should have read:
• ‘How successful was Nazi propaganda?’ handout
• ‘The effectiveness of propaganda and indoctrination’
handout
What key evidence/facts/figures/views did you note
down?
Use p.123-129 Layton to add to your evidence – facts
and figures, also read the conclusion and note down key
areas of success/failure (3 bullet points for each)
How successful was Nazi
propaganda?
• Why might this be a tricky question to answer?
• Herzstein – important role in strengthening popular support for
the regime.
• Mason – more sceptical especially in relation to the working
class.
• Welch – argues that you need to separate different strands of
propaganda – successful in overall support for Hitler – varied
success in relation to other policies. Also adds that it was
successful in reinforcing existing attitudes rather than countering
views.
• Geary – successful when it played on traditional prejudices and
values.
Clips about
propaganda
• 5.5 mins long
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af44Slin
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• 11 mins long
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg9a6bI
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practice essay
You are going to write out a rough plan to answer
this question – what arguments/evidence could
you use in each paragraph?
‘By 1939, the various forms of Nazi propaganda had made little impact on the
German public.’
Explain why you agree or disagree with this view (24 marks)
Your task
1. Using your plan, your notes and the success
criteria sheet, you are going to write up an
answer to the question in 35mins
2. You are going to peer mark a partner’s
answer, using the mark scheme to award a
mark /24, a www and an ebi comment
3. When your answer is returned you can
improve it based on the comments of your
peer
paragraphs
• Introduction – How important propaganda was to the Nazis e.g. MoP set up
(Goebbels) and what they were trying to achieve, types of propaganda,
different degrees of success, views of historians not always in agreement
• Paragraph 1 ‘for’ – some propaganda was ‘counter-productive’ – e.g.
newspapers leads to 10% drop in circulation, where they tried to challenge
established beliefs e.g. Church
• Paragraph 2 ‘for’ – arguably the apparatus of the police state is what ensures
people adhere to Nazi views rather than effective propaganda/Nazi views not
accepted by all – especially the working classes who don’t buy into idea of a
Volksgemeinschaft
• Paragraph 3 ‘against’ – Hitler Myth was effective, and support does
increase/played on traditional German values
• Paragraph 4 ‘against’ – particularly successful with the youth who did not
have entrenched views – Hitler Youth
• Conclusion – acknowledge the difficulty of measuring success, which
argument is most important
Make sure you answer the question – use examples from the presentations about the different
forms of propaganda and the impact they did/didn’t have. Figures and facts
Success criteria
• Introduction
• Does it set up the debate and demonstrate knowledge of what the question is asking?
• Conclusion
• Does it lift the answer by summarising the arguments but then adding something
more? Does it come to a judgement?
• Does it incorporate understanding of historical interpretations and debate?
• Paragraphs for and against
• Does the paragraph use the PEE structure?
• Does the paragraph answer the question clearly in its ‘explanation’?
• Does it use solid evidence to support its point e.g. statistics and examples? The mark
scheme says ‘a range of appropriately selected evidence’ (look at your presentation
handouts and the textbook – give examples)
homework
Work through the following revision tasks:
1. p.21 – Linking sources activity
2. p.23 – Prioritisation and Develop the detail
activities
3. p.27 – Prioritisation and Identify an argument
activities
Due: 04/11