we tend to view the nazis as being thugs ruffians and unsophisticated but i think what people are going to see in this exhibition is just how skillfully they employ technology how they employed art how they employed all kinds of media to get their messages across and i think this will shock and surprise a lot of people when you think about adolf hitler and propaganda he was a man that was obsessed with propaganda at least from the time when he was a soldier in the first world war but perhaps earlier when he was a budding artist
in in vienna so he was somebody that understood the power of colors the ways in which you needed to present your information to the public the way you needed to advertise yourself to the public what you're looking at here is a what's called a people's receiver the nazi government was interested in expanding the audience for propaganda but they also realized that many people desired a radio those people who got one of these inexpensive radios were indebted to the government because they they never had radio they finally got it so they felt indebted to that regime
the nazis however understood that you could take propaganda messages combined with entertainment and bring those right into people's homes i think this exhibition raises a lot of questions that are important for us as citizens in a democracy what we want people to walk away with is that this isn't just an exhibition about the past it raises issues that we need to think about today in a time when we're bombarded with messages from all over many of those are benign and innocent but there are also others that are dangerous and how do we become more critical
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