Research Note-Taking Table
To what extent was the propaganda of Hitler and Mao more or less similar?
Comparis Mao
on Topics
Topic 1: 1. December 1965 - Communist
China celebrated the twentieth
Radio anniversary of establishment of
people’s radio broadcasting
2. On this occasion, Mao urged
radio broadcasting personal to use
radio broadcasting to serve the
people of China and all of the
people of the world
3. Chinese communist leaders
stressed the importance of radio in
the socialist revolution, in
propagandizing the thought of Mao
and in fighting against imperialism
4. Radio broadcasting- important
weapon of class struggles
5. Radio is one of the mass media
that has been used to train and
educate the Chinese people
6. Radio could be used to inform
the people of of laws, regulations
and decrees of the government.
The Chinese Communists also
announced their intention to use
radio communications to mobilise
the people in the event of war.
7. The cost of 150 regular radios
was more than 20,000 yuan and
their highly maintenance was
estimated at 1,500 to 2,000 yuan
Hitler
1. The Nazis themself and Hitler
strongly believed in media power-
they want to stage a masterpiece
of propaganda and they think that
it is not possible for them to take
power or use it in the ways they
have without the radio
2. Radio programs focused on
educational and cultural
programs. The Weimar
government altered the previously
apolitical mix of radio
programming to include political
news with a progovernment slant.
3. The content of radio broadcast
took another sharp turn from
having no Nazi messages on the
radio airing pro- Nazi propaganda
after Hitler was named chancellor
and gained control over radio
among other executive powers.
4. 9 million radios were sold
cheaply so that most Germans
could afford one and thus be
indoctrinated. These “People’s
Receivers” could only be tuned to
the Nazi station. By 1939, 70 per
cent of households owned one of
them.
5. Radio wardens were used to
ensure people listened to major
speeches being broadcast.
6. Listening to foreign stations
was banned
Similarity or MLA Works-Cited
Difference? Reference &
Page Number
- It is Mao that only took Shambaugh, David.
control over radio and “China’s Propaganda
developed a nationwide System: Institutions,
Processes and Efficacy.”
system of loudspeakers
The China Journal, no.
that reached into the
57, 2007, pp. 25–58.
whole neighbourhood JSTOR,
and village. http://www.jstor.org/stabl
e/20066240. Accessed
- On the other hand, 24 Nov. 2022.
Hitler banned people
Jan, George P. “Radio
from listening foreign to
Propaganda in Chinese
foreign stations
Villages.” Asian Survey,
vol. 7, no. 5, 1967, pp.
- It is also similar
305–15. JSTOR,
because both of them https://doi.org/10.2307/2
used mass media such 642659. Accessed 26
as radios to announce Nov. 2022.
their messages and
speak to the masses.
“Propaganda and
Censorship - Control
and Opposition in Nazi
Germany - CCEA -
GCSE History Revision
- CCEA - BBC Bitesize.”
BBC News, BBC,
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bi
tesize/guides/z2p3k2p/r
evision/4.
Topic 2: 1. Control of the subject - all daily
school activities reflected the
Posters Chinese communist ideology using
posters and other visual aids.
2. In some posters, the students
hold Mao’s Little Red Book and
wear Mao’s badges and the faddish
army greatcoats
3. The cold weather indicates that
they are being sent to the northern
border on power, where they toiled
in the fields and studied the
thoughts of Mao
4. People’s daily lives were
inundated with images, sounds,
ideas of Mao
5. Criticism attacking party
members was expressed in large
characters called Da Zi Bao, on the rarely seen alone in the pictures,
posters that came to adore every
available wall space.
6. Mao regarded these pictures big total subjugation to their
character posters as ”an extremely misguided cause. Boys were
useful new type of weapon”.
1. The artistic style of the posters Powell, Patricia, and
contributed greatly to the fact that - Different ways/ Joseph Wong.
they were so successful in techniques of colours “Propaganda Posters
influencing the masses from the Chinese
and art techniques
Cultural Revolution.”
2. Poster art at the time was The Historian, vol. 59,
considered to be a "quite - Some of the art and no. 4, 1997, pp. 777–93.
spectacular" medium outside of messages are not the JSTOR,
Germany as well. It was seen as same http://www.jstor.org/stabl
"very modern and constructive." e/24451816. Accessed
The National Socialists used the - Similar as Hitler and 26 Nov. 2022.
pictorial language of poster art to
Mao both created an
seduce and incite the masses Fürstenau, Marcel.
against Jews and Bolsheviks from image of themselves
“How the Nazis Used
the beginning, and later against which was idolized by
Poster Art as
all opponents of the war. the people
Propaganda – DW –
11/30/2020.” Dw.com,
3. "One people, one Reich, one - both of them used Deutsche Welle, 30 Nov.
leader!" was the motto projected propaganda such as 2020,
on many of the posters that
posters to use it as a https://www.dw.com/en/
cemented the personality cult
around Adolf Hitler. But Hitler was tool to promote their how-the-nazis-used-pos
ideology and to get rid ter-art-as-propaganda/a-
he typically had an audience of of their opponents 55751640.
children and young people. Few
escaped the Nazis' demand for “Propaganda Mao and
Hitler.” Prezi.com,
https://prezi.com/p/agmc
expected to join the Hitler Youth vpqbqb3h/propaganda-
and girls joined the League of mao-and-hitler/.
German Girls.
4. Many of the propaganda
posters of the
Nazi era were quite harmless;
some even reflected great artistic
talent. Indeed, thanks in part to its
propaganda art, the Nazi state
could rely on the support of the
majority of Germans.
Topic 3: 1. The purpose of the book was to
books distill the voluminous products of
Mao’s mind and pen into a small
volume that even a semi-literate
peasant or new soldier could read,
memorise, or set to music. The
aphorisms therein were plucked out
of context and strung together
without much regard for chronology:
if it was Mao’s thought, it must be
coherent, went the editorial idea.
2. During the Cultural Revolution,
the book was used not only to
streamline ideology and ideological publish books. Goebbels used his picture of the Nazi’s
uniformity, but also as a weapon
against perceived "class enemies" model for suitable literature.
or "counter-revolutionaries."
3. Some of the quotations in the
Little Red Book were from the
1950s and the socialist construction
period, while others were from the
1930s and the anti-Japanese
guerrilla struggle. It was this legacy
of protracted warfare and the weak
overcoming the strong that made
the book so powerful for
anti-colonial audiences all over the
world.
1. The Nazis drew up a list of - Both of them are
over 2,500 banned authors and similar and different in a
encouraged the burning of books way that both of them
that challenged Nazi ideas and
have over all control
values
throughout educational
2. In 1933, 20,000 unacceptable system and the
books were destroyed at the textbooks and books.
University of Berlin. These
included books written by Jews,
- On the other hand,
pacifists, socialists and
Hitler had control over
communists.
textbooks and it was
rewritten to paint a good
3. Permission was needed to
own novel, called Michael, as a idealogy.
- Both Hitler and Mao
had massive book
burnings of anything
that might challenge the
dictatorships
- Little Red Book and
Mein Krampf
- Hitler and Mao both
indoctrinated youth with
their ideology to create
loyal followers.
“Propaganda and
Censorship - Control and
Opposition in Nazi
Germany - CCEA - GCSE
History Revision - CCEA -
BBC Bitesize.” BBC
News, BBC,
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bite
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ion/4.
“Propaganda Mao and
Hitler.” Prezi.com,
https://prezi.com/p/agmc
vpqbqb3h/propaganda-
mao-and-hitler/.
Adam Cathcart Lecturer
in Chinese History.
“Explainer: What Is
Mao's Little Red Book
and Why Is Everyone
Talking about It?” The
Conversation, 13 Sept.
2022,
https://theconversation.c
om/explainer-what-is-m
aos-little-red-book-and-
why-is-everyone-talking-
about-it-51330.

- Hitler and Mao used

their own writings (Mein
Kramp and Little red
book) to persuade
people to join them,
these reinforced their
ideas and policies