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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 26 January 2025. Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945) "Goebbels" redirects here. For other uses, see Goebbels (disambiguation). Reichsleiter Joseph Goebbels Goebbels in 1933 Chancellor of Germany In office 30 April – 1 May 1945 President Karl Dönitz Preceded by Adolf Hitler Succeeded ...
Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda; Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels in 1942: Ministry overview; Formed: 14 March 1933 () Dissolved: 2 May 1945 () [1] Jurisdiction: Government of Nazi Germany: Headquarters: Ordenspalais Wilhelmplatz 8/9, Berlin-Mitte
Das Reich (German: The Reich [1]) was a weekly newspaper founded by Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister of Nazi Germany, in May 1940. [2] It was published by Deutscher Verlag. German soldier reading "Das Reich", Russian Front, 1941
In April 1930, Hitler appointed Goebbels head of party propaganda. Goebbels, a former journalist and Nazi Party officer in Berlin, soon proved his skills. Among his first successes was the organisation of riotous demonstrations that succeeded in having the American anti-war film All Quiet on the Western Front banned in Germany. [8]
Nazi propaganda and officials such as Robert Ley describe Germany as a "proletarian nation" [108] as opposed to plutocratic England, a political divide that Goebbels described as "England is a capitalist democracy" and "Germany is a socialist people's state."
Joseph Goebbels, the head of Nazi Germany's Ministry of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels also put forth a theory which has come to be commonly associated with the expression "big lie". Goebbels wrote the following paragraph in an article dated 12 January 1941, sixteen years after Hitler first used the phrase.
The Sportpalast speech (German: Sportpalastrede) or Total War speech was a speech delivered by German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels at the Berlin Sportpalast to a large, carefully selected audience on 18 February 1943, as the tide of World War II was turning against Nazi Germany and its Axis allies.
To this end, Goebbels said: [T]he secret of propaganda [is to] permeate the person it aims to grasp, without his even noticing that he is being permeated. Of course propaganda has a purpose, but the purpose must be concealed with such cleverness and virtuosity that the person on whom this purpose is to be carried out doesn't notice it at all. [40]