HITLER’S GERMANY POLICY TOWARDS GREAT BRITAIN AND USSR ON THE EVE OF MUNICH (1938): INFORMATION ASPECT

Author(s):  S.U. Krupskaya, Belgorod National Research University, Belgorod, Russia, krupskaya@bsu.edu.ru,

A.U. Krupskaya, Belgorod National Research University, Belgorod, Russia, krupskaya_a@bsu.edu.ru

N.Z. Brosova, Dr., Prof., Belgorod National State University, Belgorod, Russia

Issue:  Volume 45, №1

Rubric:  Topical issues of world history

Annotation:  The article examines the informational support of Nazi Germany’s campaign to resolve the Sudeten ques-tion on the eve of the Munich Conference (1938). The foreign policy lines of propaganda are singled out for Czechoslovakia, the USSR and Great Britain, their substantive component, the significance in the preparation of Munich are analyzed. The role of Germany's propaganda and diplomatic efforts in June-September 1938 are described. The propaganda substantiation of Germany's foreign policy on the eve of the Munich crisis for Hitler and his associates represented a rather complex problem in the content plan. This was due, first of all, to the fact that it was not possible to use the completely "old", approved by the National Socialist propaganda in regional conflicts of different levels of arguments and theses, in the Czech-Slovak direction. These propaganda "tricks" could only be used as auxiliary, since the Sudeten Germans had never been part of Germany and did not constitute the "German majority" in Czechoslo-vakia (in contrast, for example, from an ethnically close Austria).

Keywords:  NSDAP, Nazi propaganda, ideology, foreign policy, Sudeten question, Munich conference (1938).

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