A.) The ship is most likely headed to either Italy or the Canary Islands. All the people on board were members of the Nazi party and had elected to take the trip. It cost about 2 weeks wages, or about 28 marks to travel. The Nazis needed to make people feel as if the war was going well, so more leisure ships were built. The picture is meant to entice others into signing up to travel.
B.) The joke implies that the Volkswagen factories were making weapons instead of cars. The German people trusted the government, but were not completely blind as to what was really happening.
A.) Propaganda is the use of images in order to change one's opinion. A rally is a mass gathering of people, usually to hear someone speak. Censorship is the banning of certain media based on the message it carries.
B.) The second joke would be the only one allowed seeing as the other portray Hitler as being power-hungry or savage. The second joke describes Hitler's gain in lebensraum, which was to be encouraged.
C.) Goebbels banned anything that was even remotely anti-Nazi, ranging from books, to newspaper articles. Newspaper writers had to be approved by the local Nazi governemt before being allowed into publication.
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