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Joseph Goebbels

Joseph Goebbels, was the mastermind behind's Hitler's call to fame and power. He was born in 1897 and died in 1945. He firmly believed that if you could tell an untruth often enough that people would eventually accept it as fact. Here are some other quotes about him:

"The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it."

"If you tell a lie, tell a big one."

To ensure that everybody thought in the correct manner, Goebbels set up the Reich Chamber of Commerce in 1933. This organisation dealt with literature, art, music, radio, film, newspapers etc. To produce anything that was in these groups, you had to be a member of the Reich Chamber. The Nazi Party decided if you had the right credentials to be a member. Any person who was not admitted was not allowed to have any work published or performed. Disobedience brought with it severe punishments. As a result of this policy, Nazi Germany introduced a system of censorship. You could only read, see and hear what the Nazis wanted you to read, see and hear. In this way, if you believed what you were told, the Nazi leaders logically assumed that opposition to their rule would be very small and practiced only by those on the very extreme who would be easy to catch.
Ref. https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propa...azi_germany.htm

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Sounds like the same kind of censorship that existed in Iraq when Saddam was in power. Only pro-Saddam literature, songs, etc were allowed, and any anti-Saddam propoganda was weeded out and the perpetrators executed or exiled. What was interesting to note about Goebbels was why he became so angry towards Jews and the human race in general. Here is an excerpt from the jewishvirtuallibrary.org which attempts to explain this:

Master propagandist of the Nazi regime and dictator of its cultural life for twelve years, Joseph Goebbels was born into a strict Catholic, working-class family from Rheydt, in the Rhineland, on 29 October 1897. He was educated at a Roman Catholic school and went on to study history and literature at the University of Heidelberg under Professor Friedrich Gundolf, a Jewish literary historian renowned as a Goethe scholar and a close disciple of the poet Stefan George.
Goebbels had been rejected for military service during World War I because of a crippled foot - the result of contracting polio as a child - and a sense of physical inadequacy tormented him for the rest of his life, reinforced by resentment of the reactions aroused by his diminutive frame, black hair and intellectual background. Bitterly conscious of his deformity and fearful of being regarded as a "bourgeois intellectual," Goebbels overcompensated for his lack of the physical virtues of the strong, healthy, blond, Nordic type by his ideological rectitude and radicalism once he joined the NSDAP in 1922.

The hostility to the intellect of the "little doctor," his contempt for the human race in general and the Jews in particular, and his complete cynicism were an expression of his own intellectual self-hatred and inferiority complexes, his overwhelming need to destroy everything sacred and ignite the same feelings of rage, despair and hatred in his listeners

ref: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsourc...t/goebbels.html

Joseph Goebbels History & Civil Business Politics

"During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information."
-- Joseph Paul Goebbels (1897-1945) Nazi Propaganda Minister