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A chilling portrait of Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi master of propaganda who fathered the "big lie", disseminated the Fuhrer myth, and leavened his mass persuasion with mass entertainment. This film provides a rare glimpse of the German home front and film industry, and analyzes the propaganda techniques Goebbels refined, and reveals the power of ...
Joseph Goebbels, c. 1935. Joseph Goebbels, (born Oct. 29, 1897, Rheydt, Ger.—died May 1, 1945, Berlin), German Nazi leader. After earning a doctorate from Heidelberg University, he joined the Nazi Party and was appointed district leader in Berlin by Adolf Hitler in 1926. A gifted speaker, Goebbels also edited the party’s journal and began ...
Background: In this article, dated 21 January 1945, Goebbels makes his last lengthy published attack on the Jews, whom he claims are responsible for the misery caused by the war. There are hints of the Holocaust in Goebbels’ words. The source: “Die Urheber des Unglücks der Welt,” Das Reich, 21 January 1945, pp. 1, 3.
At the Nazi Party level, there were three Reich leaders with media jurisdiction whose areas of responsibility overlapped: the Reich propaganda leader Joseph Goebbels, the Reich leader for the press Max Amann, and the Reich press chief Otto Dietrich. The latter, as vice president of the Reich Press Chamber, was in turn Goebbels' subordinate in ...
Joseph Goebbels demonstrated exactly how important the Nazis saw women in society as homemakers in his 1933 speech: The first, best, and most suitable place for the women is in the family, and her most glorious duty is to give children to her people and nation, children who continue the line of generations and who guarantee the immortality of ...
Joseph Goebbels; Goebbels (1897-1945) was Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany. He received his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg in 1921 for a dissertation on 19th century romantic drama. He then worked in journalism and banking. From 1923-1924, he quickly rose through the ranks of the National Socialist Party.
Following the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, Hitler established a Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda headed by Joseph Goebbels. The Ministry's aim was to ensure that the Nazi message was successfully communicated through art, music, theater, films, books, radio, educational materials, and the press.
