How was media used as a vehicle for spreading the nazi propaganda
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After ending democracy and turning Germany into a one-party dictatorship, the Nazis undertook a massive propaganda campaign to win the loyalty and cooperation of Germans. The Nazi Propaganda Ministry, directed by Dr. Joseph Goebbels, took control of all forms of communication in Germany: newspapers, magazines, books, public meetings, and rallies, art, music, movies, and radio. Any views that were considered as threatening to Nazi beliefs or to the regime were censored or eliminated from all media.
During 1933, Nazi student organizations, professors, and librarians made up long lists of books they thought should not be read by Germans. On May 10, 1933, Nazis raided libraries and bookstores across Germany. They marched by torchlight in nighttime parades, sang chants, and threw books into huge bonfires. More than 25,000 books were burned. Some were works of Jewish writers, including Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. Most of the books were by non-Jewish writers, including such famous Americans as Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, and Sinclair Lewis, whose ideas the Nazis viewed as different from their own and therefore not to be read.