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Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels (
German pronunciation: [ËÉĄĆbÉls];
UK: /ËÉĄÉËbÉlz/,
US: /ËÉĄÊbÉlz/; 29 October 1897 â 1 May 1945) was a
German politician and Reich Minister of
Propaganda in
Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. As one of German dictator
Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers, he was known for his zealous
oratory and
anti-Semitism.
.^ He was the chief architect of the Kristallnacht attack on the German Jews , which historians consider to be the commencement of the Nazi violence culminating in the Holocaust .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ From the beginning of his tenure, Goebbels organized attacks on German Jews, commencing with the boycott of 1933.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ This was a crucial error because -- as Professor Ernst Nolte and some other historians have argued -- it somewhat justified what the Nazis then did to the Jews: the Jews declared war on Germany and Germany declared war on the Jews.- Revelations from Joseph Goebbels' Diary 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ He later worked as a bank clerk and a caller on the stock exchange.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Goebbels earned a Ph.D. from Heidelberg University in 1921, writing his doctoral thesis on 18th-century romantic drama; he then went on to work as a journalist and later a bank clerk and caller on the stock exchange.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ After growing distant from his Catholic faith [ 5 ] he studied literature and philosophy at universities in Bonn , WĂŒrzburg , Freiburg im Breisgau and Heidelberg , where he wrote his doctoral thesis on the 18th century romantic novelist Wilhelm von SchĂŒtz .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ He also wrote novels and plays, but they were refused by publishers.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Goebbels was embittered by the frustration of his literary career; his novel did not find a publisher until 1929 and his plays were never staged.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, Michael , two- verse plays, and quantities of romantic poetry.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ He was appointed Gauleiter (regional party leader) of Berlin .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Like others who were later prominent in the Third Reich , Goebbels came into contact with the Nazi Party in 1923, during the campaign of resistance to the French occupation of the Ruhr .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Hitler was the leader of the Nazi Party in Germany.
.^ In this position, he put his propaganda skills to full use, combating the local socialist and communist parties with the help of Nazi papers and the paramilitary SA .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The Nazi Partyâs use of torchlight parades, brass bands, massed choirs, and similar techniques caught the imagination of many voters, particularly young people.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In Berlin, Goebbels was able to give full expression to his genius for propaganda, as editor of the Berlin Nazi newspaper Der Angriff ( The Attack ) and as the author of a steady stream of Nazi posters and handbills.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ By 1928, he had risen in the party ranks to become one of its most prominent members.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ L. Baky, one of Horthyâs leading white terrorists, led the first; this party had about a hundred thousand members.
.^ Hitler was the leader of the Nazi Party in Germany.
^ The Nazi party was elected to power in 1933 and Adolf Hitler was the Fuhrer of Germany from 1933-45.
^ Goebbels rose to power in 1933 along with Hitler and the Nazi party, and he was appointed propaganda minister.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ One of his first acts was the burning of books rejected by the Nazis.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ We all too readily talk about the book-burning and about the Nazi boycott against the Jews as if those things happened in vacuum.- Revelations from Joseph Goebbels' Diary 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ He exerted totalitarian control over the media, arts, and information in Germany.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Control of the arts and media was not just a matter of personnel.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ In that position, he perfected an understanding of the " Big Lie " technique of propaganda, which is based on the principle that a lie, if audacious enough and repeated enough times, will be believed by the masses.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ His attacks on the Jewish population culminated in the Kristallnacht assault of 1938, an open and unrestrained pogrom unleashed by the Nazis all across Germany, in which scores of Synagogues were burned and hundreds of Jews were assaulted and murdered.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ From the beginning of his tenure, Goebbels organized attacks on German Jews, commencing with the boycott of 1933.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The Nazi boycott against the Jews on April 1, 1933, was a foolish reprisal by the Nazis in retaliation for the Jewish boycott against Germany.- Revelations from Joseph Goebbels' Diary 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ Kristallnacht " refers to the broken glass spread on the streets, as the Nazis smashed the windows of thousands of Jewish businesses.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The key event in this whole story was, of course, the "Crystal Night" ("Kristallnacht"), or "Night of Broken Glass" in 1938.- Revelations from Joseph Goebbels' Diary 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
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.^ Goebbels used modern propaganda techniques to psychologically prepare the German people for aggressive war and the annihilation of civilian populations.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ German people of World War II .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ At the time of the Sudetenland crisis in 1938, Goebbels was well aware that the great majority of Germans did not want a war, and used every propaganda resource at his disposal to overcome what he called this "war psychosis," by whipping up sympathy for the Sudeten Germans and hatred of the Czechs.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Among other propaganda devices, he accused many of Germany's ethnic and national minorities (such as the Poles, the Jews, the French) of trying to destroy Germany, claiming that Germany's belligerent actions were taken in self-defense.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ It is frightening how the actions of a single leader can have such drastic effects on the prestige of an entire nation.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Pretty soon global warming will be a national security danger along with terrorism and other such matters.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
.^ During World War II , Goebbels increased his power and influence through shifting alliances with other Nazi leaders.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ German people of World War II .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Their practical behavior and good cheer even during war have earned them a good name throughout the world.- Goebbels' 1943 Speech on Total War 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.calvin.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ Goebbels' 1943 Speech on Total War .- Goebbels' 1943 Speech on Total War 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.calvin.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Only occasionally did Goebbels have to get approval from Hitler, in broad general terms, for yet another operation against the Jews.- Revelations from Joseph Goebbels' Diary 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ My theory is that he may have said to Hitler: "Mein FĂŒhrer, I've got a bit of a problem housing these Jews we're shipping out of Berlin.- Revelations from Joseph Goebbels' Diary 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
^ The FĂŒhrer gives us all an example, one that must be followed by everyone.- Goebbels' 1943 Speech on Total War 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.calvin.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ During World War II Hitler became very close with Goebbels and ordered Goebbels to succeed him after Hitler committed suicide.
.^ In the end Goebbels had his wife and six children killed, and then on May 1, 1945, killed himself.
^ In his final hours, Goebbels and his wife, Magda , killed their six young children .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Together with Stumpfegger, she [Magda Goebbels] opened the mouths of the sleeping children, put an ampule of poison between their teeth and forced their jaws together."- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Shortly after, they both committed suicide.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Early life
.^ Goebbels was born in Rheydt , an industrial town south of Mönchengladbach (of which it is now part) on the edge of the Ruhr district.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Joseph Goebbels was born on October 29, 1897 in Rheydt, Germany.
^ First of all there was the original typed Goebbels diary for parts of the years 1942 and 1943, which is now in the Hoover Institution library in Stanford, California.- Revelations from Joseph Goebbels' Diary 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
[1] .^ His family were Catholics of modest means, his father a factory clerk, his mother originally a farmhand.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ He had four siblings: Hans (1893â1947), Konrad (1895â1949), Elisabeth (1901â1915) and Maria (born 1910, later married to the German filmmaker Max W. Kimmich ).- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Goebbels was educated at a Christian Gymnasium , or secondary school, where he completed his Abitur (university entrance examination) in 1916.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Beginning in childhood, he had a deformed right leg, the result either of club foot or osteomyelitis .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Goebbels is commonly said to have had club foot ( talipes equinovarus ), a congenital condition.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[2] .^ He wore a metal brace and special shoe to compensate for his shortened leg, but nevertheless walked with a limp all his life.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ As a result of these conditions, he was rejected for military service in World War I , which he bitterly resented.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ One day the end of the world will come as a result of a 'justified' war.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
He later frequently misrepresented himself as a war veteran and his disability as a war wound.
[3] The nearest he came to military service was as an "office soldier" from June 1917 to October 1917 in Rheydt's "Patriotic Help Unit".
[4]
.^ Goebbels compensated for his physical shortcomings with intellectual accomplishments.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
. Goebbels attended the
boarding school of German Franciscan brothers in Bleijerheide,
Kerkrade,
Netherlands).
^ Goebbels attended the boarding school of German Franciscan brothers in Bleijerheide, Kerkrade (in the Netherlands ).- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ After growing distant from his Catholic faith [ 5 ] he studied literature and philosophy at universities in Bonn , WĂŒrzburg , Freiburg im Breisgau and Heidelberg , where he wrote his doctoral thesis on the 18th century romantic novelist Wilhelm von SchĂŒtz .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ His two most influential teachers, Friedrich Gundolf and his doctoral supervisor at Heidelberg, Max Freiherr von Waldberg , were Jews.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Goebbels earned a Ph.D. from Heidelberg University in 1921, writing his doctoral thesis on 18th-century romantic drama; he then went on to work as a journalist and later a bank clerk and caller on the stock exchange.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ His two most influential teachers, Friedrich Gundolf and his doctoral supervisor at Heidelberg, Max Freiherr von Waldberg , were Jews.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Furthermore, Goebbels' favorite professor at Heidelberg was Friedrich Gundolf, who was Jewish.- Revelations from Joseph Goebbels' Diary 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
^ When Gundolf said that he wouldn't have time to work with Goebbels on his doctoral dissertation, he passed him on to another professor of literature, Max von Waldberg, who was also Jewish.- Revelations from Joseph Goebbels' Diary 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ His intelligence and political astuteness were generally acknowledged even by his enemies.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[6]
.^ When Gundolf said that he wouldn't have time to work with Goebbels on his doctoral dissertation, he passed him on to another professor of literature, Max von Waldberg, who was also Jewish.- Revelations from Joseph Goebbels' Diary 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
^ He is the author of the more than two dozen published works on 20th century history, including Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich .- Revelations from Joseph Goebbels' Diary 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ He wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, Michael , two- verse plays, and quantities of romantic poetry.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ During the 1920s Goebbels wrote a play called Michael, and it's interesting to compare the various drafts of it, which are available.- Revelations from Joseph Goebbels' Diary 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
^ He also wrote novels and plays, but they were refused by publishers.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ In these works, he revealed the psychological damage his physical limitations had caused.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ "The very name of the hero, Michael, to whom he gave many autobiographical features, suggests the way his self-identification was pointing: a figure of light, radiant, tall, unconquerable," and above all "'To be a soldier!- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ From this point on he submitted himself, his whole existence, to his attachment to the person of the FĂŒhrer , consciously eliminating all inhibitions springing from intellect, free will and self-respect.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Now, the fundamental doctrine of the naturalists, which they sufficiently make known by their very name, is that human nature and human reason ought in all things to be mistress and guide.- ABCâs V: Joseph Goebbels Would Be Proud 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
To stand sentinel!
.^ One ought always to be a soldier,' wrote Michael-Goebbels."- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ During the 1920s Goebbels wrote a play called Michael, and it's interesting to compare the various drafts of it, which are available.- Revelations from Joseph Goebbels' Diary 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
^ SchwÀgermann ordered one of the soldiers to shoot Goebbels again because he was unable to do it himself."- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[7] .^ Goebbels found another form of compensation in the pursuit of women, a lifelong compulsion which he indulged "with extraordinary vigor and a surprising degree of success."- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[8] .^ His diaries reveal a long succession of affairs, before and after his marriage before a Protestant pastor in 1931 to Magda Quandt , with whom he had six children .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In his final hours, Goebbels and his wife, Magda , killed their six young children .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ (Goebbels and his wife killed their six children before killing themselves a week before the surrender that ended of the Second World War.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
[9]
.^ Goebbels was embittered by the frustration of his literary career; his novel did not find a publisher until 1929 and his plays were never staged.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He also wrote novels and plays, but they were refused by publishers.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ He found an outlet for his desire to write in his diaries , which he began in 1923 and continued for the rest of his life.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[10] .^ He later worked as a bank clerk and a caller on the stock exchange.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Goebbels earned a Ph.D. from Heidelberg University in 1921, writing his doctoral thesis on 18th-century romantic drama; he then went on to work as a journalist and later a bank clerk and caller on the stock exchange.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[11] .^ During this period, he read avidly and formed his political views.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Major influences were Friedrich Nietzsche , Oswald Spengler and, most importantly, Houston Stewart Chamberlain , the British-born German writer who was one of the founders of "scientific" anti-Semitism , and whose book The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899) was one of the standard works of the extreme right in Germany.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Most importantly, the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich managed to get hold of further portions of the diary through negotiations with the East German Communist authorities.- Revelations from Joseph Goebbels' Diary 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
^ The industrious have a right to expect that if they work ten or twelve or fourteen hours a day, a lazy person does not stand next to them who thinks them foolish.- Goebbels' 1943 Speech on Total War 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.calvin.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ Goebbels spent the winter of 1919â20 in Munich , where he witnessed and admired the violent nationalist reaction against the attempted communist revolution in Bavaria .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ His first political hero was Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley , the man who assassinated the Bavarian prime minister Kurt Eisner .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ This book tells of a man who had many of the same ideas as Hitler becoming a popular political figurehead.
^ Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk became Leading Minister) .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[8] .^ Hitler was in Munich at the same time and entered politics as a result of similar experiences.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Later he wrote: "Adolf Hitler, I love you because you are both great and simple at the same time.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ This book tells of a man who had many of the same ideas as Hitler becoming a popular political figurehead.
.^ The culture of the German extreme right was violent and anti-intellectual , which posed a challenge to the physically frail University graduate.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Joachim Fest writes:
This was the source of his hatred of the intellect, which was a form of self-hatred, his longing to degrade himself, to submerge himself in the ranks of the masses, which ran curiously parallel with his ambition and his tormenting need to distinguish himself.
.^ He was incessantly tortured by the fear of being regarded as a â bourgeois intellectualâ⊠It always seemed as if he were offering blind devotion (to Nazism) to make up for his lack of all those characteristics of the racial elite which nature had denied him.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ An eye for an eye makes us all blind.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
[12]
Nazi activist
Goebbels's 1938 ticket for public transport by the Reichspost, identitifying him as a member of the Reichstag.
.^ Goebbels came into contact with the Nazi Party in 1923 during the French occupation of the Ruhr and became a member in 1924.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Like others who were later prominent in the Third Reich , Goebbels came into contact with the Nazi Party in 1923, during the campaign of resistance to the French occupation of the Ruhr .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Instead, Hitler appointed Goebbels Reich Chancellor; Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz , who was at Flensburg near the Danish border, Reich President; and Martin Bormann, Hitler's long-time chief of staff, Party Minister.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Hitler was the leader of the Nazi Party in Germany.
^ Strasser ("the most able of the leading Nazis" of this period) [ 13 ] took the "socialist" component of National Socialism far more seriously than did Hitler and other members of the Bavarian leadership of the party.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He was, in fact, far from the most militant member of the Nazi leadership on cultural questions.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
"National and socialist!
.^ What goes first, and what comes afterwards?"- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ There is no time for fruitless debates.- Goebbels' 1943 Speech on Total War 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.calvin.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ "With us in the west, there can be no doubt.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Goebbels asked rhetorically in a debate with Theodor Vahlen , Gauleiter (regional party head) of Pomerania , in the Rhineland party newspaper National-sozialistische Briefe (National-Socialist Letters), of which he was editor, in mid-1925.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ First socialist redemption, then comes national liberation like a whirlwind⊠Hitler stands between both opinions, but he is on his way to coming over to us completely."- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In October 1926, Hitler rewarded Goebbels for his new loyalty by making him the party " Gauleiter " for the Berlin section of the National Socialists.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The most powerful ally on earth, the people itself, stands behind us and is determined to follow the FĂŒhrer, come what may.- Goebbels' 1943 Speech on Total War 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.calvin.edu [Source type: Original source]
[14] .^ Goebbels, with his journalistic skills, thus soon became a key ally of Strasser in his struggle with the Bavarians over the party program.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The conflict was not, so they thought, with Hitler, but with his lieutenants, Rudolf Hess , Julius Streicher and Hermann Esser , who, they said, were mismanaging the party in Hitlerâs absence.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ But they were thwarted by their inability to challenge Hitler, who could neither make decisions himself nor trust anyone else to do so.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ That reminds us of the statements by bourgeois parties in 1932, who thought they could fight and win the battle against communism with spiritual weapons.- Goebbels' 1943 Speech on Total War 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.calvin.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ In 1925, Goebbels published an open letter to "my friends of the left," urging unity between socialists and Nazis against the capitalists .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Goebbels asked rhetorically in a debate with Theodor Vahlen , Gauleiter (regional party head) of Pomerania , in the Rhineland party newspaper National-sozialistische Briefe (National-Socialist Letters), of which he was editor, in mid-1925.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Together with Stumpfegger, she [Magda Goebbels] opened the mouths of the sleeping children, put an ampule of poison between their teeth and forced their jaws together."- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ We,re all nothing more than slaves in one form or another and if we would just realize that, we could possibly free ourselves.- ABCâs V: Joseph Goebbels Would Be Proud 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ "You and I," he wrote, "we are fighting one another although we are not really enemies."- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ SERIOUSLY? Methinks you watched the movie âEnemy Mineâ one too many times, like Icke didâŠ, .- ABCâs V: Joseph Goebbels Would Be Proud 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[15].^ In February 1926, Hitler, having finished working on Mein Kampf , made a sudden return to party affairs and soon disabused the northerners of any illusions about where he stood.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In October 1926, Hitler rewarded Goebbels for his new loyalty by making him the party " Gauleiter " for the Berlin section of the National Socialists.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ He summoned about 60 gauleiters and other activists, including Goebbels, to a meeting at Bamberg , in Streicherâs Gau of Franconia , where he gave a two-hour speech repudiating the political program of the "socialist" wing of the party.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Goebbels asked rhetorically in a debate with Theodor Vahlen , Gauleiter (regional party head) of Pomerania , in the Rhineland party newspaper National-sozialistische Briefe (National-Socialist Letters), of which he was editor, in mid-1925.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In October 1926, Hitler rewarded Goebbels for his new loyalty by making him the party " Gauleiter " for the Berlin section of the National Socialists.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ For Hitler, the real enemy of the German people was always the Jews, not the capitalists .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ I wish to ask you ten questions that you will answer for the German people throughout the world, but especially for our enemies, who are listening to us on the radio.- Goebbels' 1943 Speech on Total War 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.calvin.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ He saw Jews ruining ordinary Germans, he saw speculation, and he saw inflation wiping out people's savings.- Revelations from Joseph Goebbels' Diary 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ Goebbels was bitterly disillusioned.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ "I feel devastated," he wrote.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
"What sort of Hitler? A
reactionary?" He was horrified by Hitlerâs characterization of socialism as "a Jewish creation", his declaration that the
Soviet Union must be destroyed, and his assertion that private property would not be expropriated by a Nazi government.
.^ "I no longer fully believe in Hitler.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ I believe it was spent fuel and no longer weapons grade but Hannity kept the lie going all during his show.- McClellan: White House gave FOX commentators talking points | Crooks and Liars 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC crooksandliars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Thatâs the terrible thing: my inner support has been taken away."- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[16]
Hitler, however, recognized Goebbelsâ talents. In April, he brought Goebbels to Munich, sending his own car to meet him at the railway station, and gave him a long private audience.
.^ Hitler berated Goebbels over his support for the "socialist" line, but offered to "wipe the slate clean" if Goebbels would now accept his leadership.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Goebbels capitulated completely, offering Hitler his total loyalty â a pledge which was clearly sincere, and which he adhered to until the end of his life.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In October 1926, Hitler rewarded Goebbels for his new loyalty by making him the party " Gauleiter " for the Berlin section of the National Socialists.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Goebbels capitulated completely, offering Hitler his total loyalty â a pledge which was clearly sincere, and which he adhered to until the end of his life.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Only Goebbels and Bormann remained totally loyal to Hitler.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Goebbels privately lamented "a complete lack of direction in German domestic policy," but of course he could not directly criticize Hitler or go against his wishes.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
"I love him ...
.^ He has thought through everything," Goebbels wrote.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ "Such a sparkling mind can be my leader.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ I bow to the greater one, the political genius .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Later he wrote: "Adolf Hitler, I love you because you are both great and simple at the same time.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He never got anywhere with Anka Stalherm, although if you read his diary you would imagine that she was the great love of his life.- Revelations from Joseph Goebbels' Diary 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
^ By this time, Goebbels had gained the position he had wanted so long â at the side of Hitler, albeit only because of his subservience to Bormann, who was the FĂŒhrer ' s de facto deputy.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ What one calls a genius."- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[17] Fest writes:
.^ From this point on he submitted himself, his whole existence, to his attachment to the person of the FĂŒhrer , consciously eliminating all inhibitions springing from intellect, free will and self-respect.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ This was the source of his hatred of the intellect, which was a form of self-hatred, his longing to degrade himself, to submerge himself in the ranks of the masses, which ran curiously parallel with his ambition and his tormenting need to distinguish himself.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Since this submission was an act less of faith than of insight, it stood firm through all vicissitudes to the end.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ All of these things had terrible outcomes, but in the end we pulled through.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
âHe who forsakes the
.^ He who forsakes the FĂŒhrer withers away,â he would later write.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Propagandist in Berlin
.^ In October 1926, Hitler rewarded Goebbels for his new loyalty by making him the party " Gauleiter " for the Berlin section of the National Socialists.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Goebbels capitulated completely, offering Hitler his total loyalty â a pledge which was clearly sincere, and which he adhered to until the end of his life.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He summoned about 60 gauleiters and other activists, including Goebbels, to a meeting at Bamberg , in Streicherâs Gau of Franconia , where he gave a two-hour speech repudiating the political program of the "socialist" wing of the party.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Goebbels was then able to use the new position to indulge his literary aspirations in the German capital, which he perceived to be a stronghold of the socialists and communists.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In this position, he put his propaganda skills to full use, combating the local socialist and communist parties with the help of Nazi papers and the paramilitary SA .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In October 1926, Hitler rewarded Goebbels for his new loyalty by making him the party " Gauleiter " for the Berlin section of the National Socialists.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Here, Goebbels discovered his talent as a propagandist, writing such tracts as 1926's The Second Revolution and Lenin or Hitler .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Hitler, however, recognized Goebbelsâ talents.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ And when dealing with what he writes about a man such as Hitler, who is dead and can't defend himself, you have to be extra careful.- Revelations from Joseph Goebbels' Diary 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
[18]
.^ Here, he was also able to indulge his heretofore latent taste for violence, if only vicariously through the actions of the street fighters under his command.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ History, he said, "is made in the street," and he was determined to challenge the dominant parties of the left â the Social Democrats and Communists â in the streets of Berlin.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The Social Democrat city government obliged in 1927 with an eight-month ban on the party, which Goebbels exploited to the limit.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ I have already said that Bolshevism has its foreign legions in the form of communist parties in every democratic nation.- Goebbels' 1943 Speech on Total War 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.calvin.edu [Source type: Original source]
[19] .^ Working with the local S.A. (stormtrooper) leaders, he deliberately provoked beer-hall battles and street brawls, frequently involving firearms.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
"Beware, you dogs," he wrote to his former "friends of the left": "When
the Devil is loose in me you will not curb him again." When the inevitable deaths occurred, he exploited them for the maximum effect, turning the street fighter
Horst Wessel, who was killed at his home by enemy political activists, into a martyr and hero.
[20]
.^ In Berlin, Goebbels was able to give full expression to his genius for propaganda, as editor of the Berlin Nazi newspaper Der Angriff ( The Attack ) and as the author of a steady stream of Nazi posters and handbills.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ By 1936, although he was not nearly as corrupt as some other senior Nazis, such as Göring and Robert Ley , Goebbels was earning 300,000 Reichsmarks a year in "fees" for writing in his own newspaper, Der Angriff , as well as his ministerial salary and many other sources of income.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He ensured that film studios such as UFA at Babelsberg near Berlin continued to produce a stream of comedies and light romances, which drew mass audiences to the cinema where they would also watch propaganda newsreels and Nazi epics.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ "He rose within a few months to be the cityâs most feared agitator."- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[20] .^ "It is not propagandaâs task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success."- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ His propaganda techniques were totally cynical: "That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result," he wrote.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ (Applause for several minutes) The question is not whether the methods are good or bad, but whether they are successful.- Goebbels' 1943 Speech on Total War 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.calvin.edu [Source type: Original source]
"It is not propagandaâs task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success."
[20]
.^ Among his favorite targets were socialist leaders such as Hermann MĂŒller and Carl Severing , and the Jewish Berlin Police President, Bernhard Weiss (1880â1951), whom he subjected to a relentless campaign of Jew-baiting in the hope of provoking a crackdown which he could then exploit.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Berlin's Jews were subjected to all sorts of petty police harassment such as this.- Revelations from Joseph Goebbels' Diary 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Six months before "Crystal Night," Goebbels and Berlin's police chief, Count von Helldorff, decided between them to start a campaign of systematic harassment of the city's Jews.- Revelations from Joseph Goebbels' Diary 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ As Goebbels orchestrated the rise of the Nazi party in Berlin, part of the problem for the democrats there was that much of what he said was true.- Revelations from Joseph Goebbels' Diary 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ When a friend criticized him for denigrating Weiss, a man with an exemplary military record, "he explained cynically that he wasnât in the least interested in Weiss, only in the propaganda effect."- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[20]
.^ Goebbels also discovered a talent for oratory , and was soon second in the Nazi movement only to Hitler as a public speaker.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Hitler, however, recognized Goebbelsâ talents.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ But his outstanding talents, and the obvious fact that he stood high in Hitlerâs regard, earned Goebbels the grudging respect of the anti-intellectual brawlers of the Nazi movement, who called him "our little doctor" with a mixture of affection and amusement.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Where Hitlerâs style was hoarse and passionate, Goebbelsâ was cool, sarcastic and often humorous: he was a master of biting invective and insinuation, although he could whip himself into a rhetoric frenzy if the occasion demanded.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ This trio â Goebbels, Himmler and Speer â became the real center of German government in the last year of the war, although Bormann used his privileged access to Hitler to thwart them when he could.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Goebbels had style and he could speak up in his language.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
.^ Unlike Hitler, however, he retained a cynical detachment from his own rhetoric.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ He openly acknowledged that he was exploiting the lowest instincts of the German people â racism , xenophobia , class envy and insecurity.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ All of this served short-term propaganda ends, but also served to reconcile the German people, particularly the working class, to the regime.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ He could, he said, play the popular will like a piano, leading the masses wherever he wanted them to go.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Because I could keep going if you want.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
^ I do not want to give you a false impression of the situation that could lead to false conclusions, perhaps giving the German people a false sense of security that is altogether inappropriate in the present situation.- Goebbels' 1943 Speech on Total War 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.calvin.edu [Source type: Original source]
"He drove his listeners into ecstasy, making them stand up, sing songs, raise their arms, repeat oaths â and he did it, not through the passionate inspiration of the moment, but as the result of sober
psychological calculation."
[21]
.^ Goebbels speaking at a political rally against the Lausanne Conference (1932) Goebbelsâ words and actions made little impact on the political loyalties of Berlin.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Deportations of Berlin Jews to the ĆĂłdĆș ghetto began in October, but transport and other difficulties made the process much slower than Goebbels desired.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In October 1926, Hitler rewarded Goebbels for his new loyalty by making him the party " Gauleiter " for the Berlin section of the National Socialists.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[22] .^ At the 1928 Reichstag elections, the Nazis polled less than 2% of the vote in Berlin compared with 33% for the Social Democrats and 25% for the Communists.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Until the Nazis came to power, Goebbels had been a relatively poor man, and his main income was the salary of 750 Reichsmarks a month he had gained by election to the Reichstag in 1928.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ History, he said, "is made in the street," and he was determined to challenge the dominant parties of the left â the Social Democrats and Communists â in the streets of Berlin.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ At this election Goebbels was one of the 10 Nazis elected to the Reichstag, which brought him a salary of 750 Reichsmarks a month and immunity from prosecution .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Until the Nazis came to power, Goebbels had been a relatively poor man, and his main income was the salary of 750 Reichsmarks a month he had gained by election to the Reichstag in 1928.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He wasn't appointed Propaganda Minister immediately because Hitler needed Goebbels to direct his party's propaganda campaign in one final election battle, and, as Hitler pointed out to him, it wouldn't be right for the Reich Propaganda Minister, a government official, simultaneously to direct the Nazi party's propaganda election campaign.- Revelations from Joseph Goebbels' Diary 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
[23] .^ Even when the impact of the Great Depression led to an enormous surge in support for the Nazis across Germany, Berlin resisted the partyâs appeal more than any other part of Germany: at its peak in 1932, the Nazi Party polled 28% in Berlin to the combined leftâs 55%.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ More than Nagasaki and Hiroshima combined.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
^ Even after the Nazis came to power, the number of Jews continued to increase in Berlin, which didn't please Goebbels at all.- Revelations from Joseph Goebbels' Diary 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
[24] .^ But his outstanding talents, and the obvious fact that he stood high in Hitlerâs regard, earned Goebbels the grudging respect of the anti-intellectual brawlers of the Nazi movement, who called him "our little doctor" with a mixture of affection and amusement.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Hitler, however, recognized Goebbelsâ talents.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Goebbels and Speer were among the few Nazi leaders who were under no illusions about Germanyâs dire situation.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ By 1928, still aged only 31, he was acknowledged to be one of the inner circle of Nazi leaders.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
"The
S.A. would have let itself be hacked to bits for him," wrote Horst Wessel in 1929.
[25]
.^ These sentiments were reciprocated by some on the left .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The Great Depression led to a new resurgence of "left" sentiment in some sections of the Nazi Party, led by Gregor Strasserâs brother Otto , who argued that the party ought to be competing with the Communists for the loyalties of the unemployed and the industrial workers by promising to expropriate the capitalists.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Even when the impact of the Great Depression led to an enormous surge in support for the Nazis across Germany, Berlin resisted the partyâs appeal more than any other part of Germany: at its peak in 1932, the Nazi Party polled 28% in Berlin to the combined leftâs 55%.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Hitler, whose dislike of working-class militancy reflected his social origins in the small-town lower-middle class , was thoroughly opposed to this line.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ He recognized that the growth in Nazi support at the 1930 elections had mainly come from the middle class and from farmers, and he was now busy building bridges to the upper middle classes and to German business.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Goebbels insisted that German high culture must be allowed to carry on, both for reasons of international prestige and to win the loyalty of the upper middle classes, who valued art forms such as opera and the symphony .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Just ask the ordinary, upper middle class Germans what happened to them in dealing 'reasonably' and politely feeding into the Empire's bloody maw.- McClellan: White House gave FOX commentators talking points | Crooks and Liars 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC crooksandliars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ In April 1930, he fired Strasser as head of the Nazi Party national propaganda apparatus and appointed Goebbels to replace him, giving him control of the partyâs national newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter ( Peopleâs Observer ), as well as other Nazi papers across the country.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ By 1936, although he was not nearly as corrupt as some other senior Nazis, such as Göring and Robert Ley , Goebbels was earning 300,000 Reichsmarks a year in "fees" for writing in his own newspaper, Der Angriff , as well as his ministerial salary and many other sources of income.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Goebbels asked rhetorically in a debate with Theodor Vahlen , Gauleiter (regional party head) of Pomerania , in the Rhineland party newspaper National-sozialistische Briefe (National-Socialist Letters), of which he was editor, in mid-1925.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Goebbels, although he continued to show "leftish" tendencies in some of his actions (such as co-operating with the Communists in supporting the Berlin transport workers' strike in November 1932),
[26] was totally loyal to Hitler in his struggle with the Strassers, which culminated in Ottoâs expulsion from the party in July 1930.
[27]
.^ Goebbels' record as an election campaigner.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He proved to be an organizer of genius, choreographing Hitlerâs dramatic airplane tours of Germany and pioneering the use of radio and cinema for electoral campaigning.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Despite his revolutionary rhetoric, Goebbelsâ most important contribution to the Nazi cause between 1930 and 1933 was as the organizer of successive election campaigns: The Reichstag elections of September 1930, July and November 1932 and March 1933, and Hitlerâs presidential campaign of MarchâApril 1932.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The Nazi Partyâs use of torchlight parades, brass bands, massed choirs, and similar techniques caught the imagination of many voters, particularly young people.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In this position, he put his propaganda skills to full use, combating the local socialist and communist parties with the help of Nazi papers and the paramilitary SA .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Evans notes that many Nazi voters in the partyâs breakthrough election in 1930 were young or other first-time voters, brought to the polls by the excitement generated by Goebbelsâ campaign techniques.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ "His propaganda headquarters in Munich sent out a constant stream of directives to local and regional party sections, often providing fresh slogans and fresh material for the campaign."- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He wasn't appointed Propaganda Minister immediately because Hitler needed Goebbels to direct his party's propaganda campaign in one final election battle, and, as Hitler pointed out to him, it wouldn't be right for the Reich Propaganda Minister, a government official, simultaneously to direct the Nazi party's propaganda election campaign.- Revelations from Joseph Goebbels' Diary 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
^ In this position, he put his propaganda skills to full use, combating the local socialist and communist parties with the help of Nazi papers and the paramilitary SA .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[28] .^ Nazi takeover of power on 6 July 1932.- Goebbels' 1943 Speech on Total War 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.calvin.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Although the spectacular rise in the Nazi vote in 1930 and July 1932 was caused mainly by the effects of the Depression, Goebbels as party campaign manager was naturally given much of the credit.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Goebbels, although he continued to show "leftish" tendencies in some of his actions (such as co-operating with the Communists in supporting the Berlin transport workers' strike in November 1932), [ 26 ] was totally loyal to Hitler in his struggle with the Strassers, which culminated in Ottoâs expulsion from the party in July 1930.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Propaganda Minister
.^ Jews in Nazi Germany (1933â1939) .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ January 1933 â 30 April 1945) .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ When Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933, Goebbels was initially given no office: the coalition cabinet which Hitler headed contained only a minority of Nazis as part of the deal he had negotiated with President Paul von Hindenburg and the conservative parties.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ But as the propaganda head of the ruling party, a party which had no great respect for the law, he immediately began to behave as though he were in power.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ It can no longer serve to settle disputes...can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Gregor lost all his power but remained nominal head of the party organisation until 1932: he was murdered in 1934 in the Night of the Long Knives .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ He commandeered the state radio to produce a live broadcast of the torchlight parade which celebrated Hitlerâs assumption of office.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ On 13 March, Goebbels had his reward for his part in bringing the Nazis to power by being appointed Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda ( VolksaufklÀrung und Propaganda ), with a seat in the Cabinet.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Goebbels rose to power in 1933 along with Hitler and the Nazi party, and he was appointed propaganda minister.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Instead, Hitler appointed Goebbels Reich Chancellor; Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz , who was at Flensburg near the Danish border, Reich President; and Martin Bormann, Hitler's long-time chief of staff, Party Minister.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The role of the new ministry, which took over palatial accommodation in the 18th-century Leopold Palace on Wilhelmstrasse , just across from Hitlerâs offices in the Reich Chancellery , was to centralize Nazi control of all aspects of German cultural and intellectual life, particularly the press, radio and the visual and performing arts.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Speer took control of all economic and production matters away from Göring, and Goebbels took the title Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War ( ReichsbevollmĂ€chtigter fĂŒr den totalen Kriegseinsatz an der Heimatfront ).- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Goebbels promised Hitler that he could raise a million new soldiers by means of a reorganisation of the Army, transferring personnel from the Navy and Luftwaffe , and purging the bloated Reich Ministries which satraps like Göring had hitherto protected.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[29] .^ On 1 May, Goebbels organised the massive demonstrations and parades to mark the "Day of National Labor" which preceded the Nazi takeover and destruction of the German trade union movement.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Paul Joseph Goebbels ( German pronunciation: [ËÉĄĆbÉls] ; UK: /ËÉĄÉËbÉlz/ , US: /ËÉĄÊbÉlz/ ; 29 October 1897 â 1 May 1945) was a German politician and Reichsminister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Sterling Burnett, senior fellow at the Exxon-backed National Center for Policy Analysis, compared Al Gore to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
.^ By 3 May, he was able to boast in his diary: "We are the masters of Germany."- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ You may laugh but, as he wrote in his diary, the reasoning was that if Germany violated American copyrights, America might feel justified in violating Germany's very valuable copyrights.- Revelations from Joseph Goebbels' Diary 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
[30] .^ On 10 May, he supervised an even more symbolic event in the establishment of Nazi cultural power: the burning of up to 20,000 books by Jewish or anti-Nazi authors in the Opernplatz next to the university.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ One of his first acts was the burning of books rejected by the Nazis.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ May 23rd, 2006 at 10:20 pm .- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
[31]
.^ With Leni Riefenstahl in 1937 The hegemonic ambitions of the Propaganda Ministry were shown by the divisions which Goebbels soon established: press, radio, film, theater, music, literature, and publishing.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Goebbels and his Ministry," originally published as "Dr.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The Nazi campaign against the Jews included Goebbels' systematic campaign to remove them from the theater, art and music.- Revelations from Joseph Goebbels' Diary 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ In each of these, a Reichskammer ( Reich Chamber) was established, co-opting leading figures from the field (usually not known Nazis) to head each Chamber, and requiring them to supervise the purge of Jews, socialists and liberals, as well as practitioners of "degenerate" art forms such as abstract art and atonal music .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The Nazi campaign against the Jews included Goebbels' systematic campaign to remove them from the theater, art and music.- Revelations from Joseph Goebbels' Diary 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC ihr.org [Source type: Original source]
^ The many prominent Jews in the arts and the mass media emigrated in large numbers rather than risk the fists of the SA and the gates of the concentration camp , as did many socialists and liberals.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[32] .^ The respected composer Richard Strauss , for example, became head of the Reich Music Chamber.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich , 358 ^ Read and Fisher, Berlin , 205 ^ The chambers were the Reich Chamber of Film, the Reich Chamber of the Visual Arts, the Reich Chamber of Theater, the Reich Chamber of Radio, the Reich Chamber of the Press, the Reich Chamber of Music, and the Reich Chamber of Literature.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Goebbelsâ orders were backed by the threat of force.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The many prominent Jews in the arts and the mass media emigrated in large numbers rather than risk the fists of the SA and the gates of the concentration camp , as did many socialists and liberals.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Olbermann also has the benefit of being much more open about being liberal than many Fox News "anchors" are about being conservative.- Countdown: All Aboard The Double Talk Express! | Crooks and Liars 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC crooksandliars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Some non-Jewish anti-Nazis with good connections or international reputations survived until the mid-1930s, but most were forced out sooner or later.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Nazis were the Good Guys Says: November 5th, 2009 at 12:30 am The nazis were fighting off the COMMUNISTS and the international zionist bankers.- ABCâs V: Joseph Goebbels Would Be Proud 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Control of the arts and media was not just a matter of personnel.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He exerted totalitarian control over the media, arts, and information in Germany.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ No matter which candidate "wins" corporate America stays in control of the money (Federal Reserve Bank), the media and the monopolies.- Countdown: All Aboard The Double Talk Express! | Crooks and Liars 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC crooksandliars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Soon the content of every newspaper, book, novel, play, film, broadcast and concert, from the level of nationally-known publishers and orchestras to local newspapers and village choirs, was subject to supervision by the Propaganda Ministry, although a process of self- censorship was soon effectively operating in all these fields, leaving the Ministry in Berlin free to concentrate on the most politically sensitive areas such as major newspapers and the state radio.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ With Leni Riefenstahl in 1937 The hegemonic ambitions of the Propaganda Ministry were shown by the divisions which Goebbels soon established: press, radio, film, theater, music, literature, and publishing.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He also wrote novels and plays, but they were refused by publishers.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ No author could publish, no painter could exhibit, no singer could broadcast, no critic could criticize, unless they were a member of the appropriate Reich Chamber, and membership was conditional on good behavior.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ They were grouped into the Reich Chamber of Culture.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ They have given enough good examples of noble behavior and bravery during the war such that they will not fail here.- Goebbels' 1943 Speech on Total War 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.calvin.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ Goebbels could bribe as well as threaten: he secured a large budget for his Ministry, with which he was able to offer generous salaries and subsidies to those in the arts who co-operated with him.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ These were inducements which most artists, theaters and orchestras, after their struggles to survive during the Depression, found hard to refuse.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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.^ He was, in fact, far from the most militant member of the Nazi leadership on cultural questions.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ As the most highly educated member of the Nazi leadership, and the one with the most authentic pretensions to high culture, Goebbels was sensitive to charges that he was dragging German culture down to the level of mere propaganda.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Goebbels insisted that German high culture must be allowed to carry on, both for reasons of international prestige and to win the loyalty of the upper middle classes, who valued art forms such as opera and the symphony .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Again let me say that the heavier the sacrifices the German people must make, the more urgent it is that they be fairly shared.- Goebbels' 1943 Speech on Total War 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.calvin.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ The English and American press in recent days has been writing at length about the attitude of the German people during this crisis.- Goebbels' 1943 Speech on Total War 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.calvin.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ That can wait until later, when the German people and the whole world will learn the full truth about the misfortune of the past weeks, and its deep and fateful significance.- Goebbels' 1943 Speech on Total War 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.calvin.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ He was, in fact, far from the most militant member of the Nazi leadership on cultural questions.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Strasser ("the most able of the leading Nazis" of this period) [ 13 ] took the "socialist" component of National Socialism far more seriously than did Hitler and other members of the Bavarian leadership of the party.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ As the most highly educated member of the Nazi leadership, and the one with the most authentic pretensions to high culture, Goebbels was sensitive to charges that he was dragging German culture down to the level of mere propaganda.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The more philistine Nazis wanted nothing in German books but Nazi slogans, nothing on German stages and cinema screens but Nazi heroics, and nothing in German concert halls but German folk songs .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Goebbels insisted that German high culture must be allowed to carry on, both for reasons of international prestige and to win the loyalty of the upper middle classes, who valued art forms such as opera and the symphony .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ As the most highly educated member of the Nazi leadership, and the one with the most authentic pretensions to high culture, Goebbels was sensitive to charges that he was dragging German culture down to the level of mere propaganda.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Just ask the ordinary, upper middle class Germans what happened to them in dealing 'reasonably' and politely feeding into the Empire's bloody maw.- McClellan: White House gave FOX commentators talking points | Crooks and Liars 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC crooksandliars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ He thus became to some extent the protector of the arts as well as their regulator.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ In this, he had the support of Hitler, a passionate devotee of Richard Wagner .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ But Goebbels always had to bow to Hitlerâs views.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ These events were well-timed from the point of view of Goebbelsâ relations with Hitler.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Hitler loathed modernism of all kinds, and Goebbels (whose own tastes were sympathetic to modernism) was forced to acquiesce in imposing very traditionalist forms on the artistic and musical worlds.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ His proposal had a certain logic, as Göring â despite the failures of the Luftwaffe and his own corruption â was still very popular among the German people, whose morale was waning since Hitler barely appeared in public since the defeat at Stalingrad .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Goebbels, like all the Nazi leaders, could not afford to defy Hitlerâs will in matters of this kind.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The music of Paul Hindemith , for example, was banned simply because Hitler did not like it.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Goebbels also resisted the complete Nazification of the arts because he knew that the masses must be allowed some respite from slogans and propaganda.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Goebbels insisted that German high culture must be allowed to carry on, both for reasons of international prestige and to win the loyalty of the upper middle classes, who valued art forms such as opera and the symphony .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ He ensured that film studios such as UFA at Babelsberg near Berlin continued to produce a stream of comedies and light romances, which drew mass audiences to the cinema where they would also watch propaganda newsreels and Nazi epics.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ One man who called Goreâs movie the equivalent of Goebbelâs Nazi propaganda film.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
^ In Berlin, Goebbels was able to give full expression to his genius for propaganda, as editor of the Berlin Nazi newspaper Der Angriff ( The Attack ) and as the author of a steady stream of Nazi posters and handbills.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ His abuse of his position as Propaganda Minister and the reputation that built up around his use of the "casting couch" was well known.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In this position, he put his propaganda skills to full use, combating the local socialist and communist parties with the help of Nazi papers and the paramilitary SA .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Many actresses wrote later of how Goebbels had tried to lure them to his home.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
He acquired the nickname "Bock von Babelsberg" lit: "Babelsberg Stud". He resisted considerable pressure to ban all foreign films â helped by the fact that Hitler was a big fan of
Mickey Mouse.
.^ For the same reason, Goebbels worked to bring culture to the masses â promoting the sale of cheap radios, organizing free concerts in factories, staging art exhibitions in small towns and establishing mobile cinemas to bring the movies to every village.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Goebbels insisted that German high culture must be allowed to carry on, both for reasons of international prestige and to win the loyalty of the upper middle classes, who valued art forms such as opera and the symphony .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ One can take care of the house and children oneself, freeing the servant for other tasks, or leave the house and children in care of the servant or the NSV [the party welfare organization] , and go to work oneself.- Goebbels' 1943 Speech on Total War 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.calvin.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ That will come from the fighting and working German people.- Goebbels' 1943 Speech on Total War 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.calvin.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ On the other hand, the government is doing all it can to give working people the relaxation they need in these trying times.- Goebbels' 1943 Speech on Total War 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.calvin.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ This applies to all the media; that which appears to be superficially left/Democratic, JUST AS WELL AS that which appears to be that awful right/Republican media that all we 'smart' people laugh at ---- (while we are being lied to by a higher class of propaganda).- McClellan: White House gave FOX commentators talking points | Crooks and Liars 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC crooksandliars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[34]
Goebbels and the Jews
Despite the enormous power of the Propaganda Ministry over German cultural life, Goebbelsâ status began to decline once the Nazi regime was firmly established in power.
[35] This was because the real business of the Nazi regime was preparation for war, and although propaganda was a part of this, it was not the primary objective.
.^ By the mid-1930s, Hitlerâs most powerful subordinates were Hermann Göring , as head of the Four Year Plan for crash rearmament, and Heinrich Himmler , head of the SS and police apparatus.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ With Hitler preoccupied with the war, Himmler focusing on the "final solution to the Jewish question" in eastern Europe, and with Hermann Göring âs position declining with the failure of the German Air Force ( Luftwaffe ), Goebbels sensed a power vacuum in domestic policy and moved to fill it.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ However, the inability of Himmler to persuade Hitler to cease his support of Bormann, the defection of SS generals such as ObergruppenfĂŒhrer Ernst Kaltenbrunner , the Chief of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt and his powerful subordinate GruppenfĂŒhrer Heinrich MĂŒller , the head of the Gestapo , to Bormann, soon persuaded Goebbels to align himself with the Secretary to the FĂŒhrer at the end of 1944, thus accepting his subordinate position.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Once the internal enemies of the Nazi Party were destroyed, as they effectively were by 1935, Goebbelsâ propaganda efforts began to lose their point, and without an enemy to fight, his rhetoric began to sound hollow and unconvincing.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ As a man of education and culture, Goebbels had once mocked the "primitive" anti-Semitism of Nazis such as Julius Streicher .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In Berlin, Goebbels was able to give full expression to his genius for propaganda, as editor of the Berlin Nazi newspaper Der Angriff ( The Attack ) and as the author of a steady stream of Nazi posters and handbills.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ One man who called Goreâs movie the equivalent of Goebbelâs Nazi propaganda film.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
.^ It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Fest also suggests a psychological motive: "A man who conformed so little to the National Socialist image of the elite ...- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
may have had his reason, in the struggles for power at
.^ Hitlerâs court, for offering keen anti-Semitism as a counterweight to his failure to conform to a type."- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ As one of German dictator Adolf Hitler 's closest associates and most devout followers, he was known for his zealous oratory and anti-Semitism .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ These events damaged Goebbelsâ standing with Hitler, and his zeal in furthering Hitlerâs anti-Semitic agenda was in part an effort to restore his reputation.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[36] .^ Whatever his motives, Goebbels took every opportunity to attack the Jews.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ From the beginning of his tenure, Goebbels organized attacks on German Jews, commencing with the boycott of 1933.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ When Hitler said he approved of what was happening, Goebbels took this as authorization to organize a massive, nationwide pogrom against the Jews.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ From 1933 onwards, he was bracketed with Streicher among the regimeâs most virulent anti-Semites.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ As one of German dictator Adolf Hitler 's closest associates and most devout followers, he was known for his zealous oratory and anti-Semitism .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ As a man of education and culture, Goebbels had once mocked the "primitive" anti-Semitism of Nazis such as Julius Streicher .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[37] .^ "Some people think," he told a Berlin rally in June 1935, "that we havenât noticed how the Jews are trying once again to spread themselves over all our streets.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Itâs so f---ing obvious this movie that itâs almost funny in how they are trying to indoctrinate our kids.- ABCâs V: Joseph Goebbels Would Be Proud 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The world burned up all of the oil and all people got were some big houses.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
.^ The Jews ought to please observe the laws of hospitality and not behave as if they were the same as us."- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Same DNA, same s--- they want to do to us.- ABCâs V: Joseph Goebbels Would Be Proud 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ The sarcastic "humor" of Goebbelsâ speeches did not conceal the reality of his threat to the Jews.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ In his capacity as Gauleiter of Berlin, and thus as de facto ruler of the capital (although there was still officially an OberbĂŒrgermeister and city council), Goebbels maintained constant pressure on the cityâs large Jewish community, forcing them out of business and professional life and placing obstacles in the way of their being able to live normal lives, such as banning them from public transport and city facilities.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Goebbels, although he continued to show "leftish" tendencies in some of his actions (such as co-operating with the Communists in supporting the Berlin transport workers' strike in November 1932), [ 26 ] was totally loyal to Hitler in his struggle with the Strassers, which culminated in Ottoâs expulsion from the party in July 1930.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ And letâs not forget such classics as THX1135, Soylent Green, 1984 (which is out of print now), and They Live.- ABCâs V: Joseph Goebbels Would Be Proud 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ There was some respite during 1936, while Berlin hosted the Olympic Games , [ 38 ] but from 1937 the intensity of his anti-Semitic words and actions began to increase again.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ (The minister's words were accompanied by stormy applause that increased in intensity as he came to the representatives of the army present at the meeting.- Goebbels' 1943 Speech on Total War 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.calvin.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Goebbels speaking at a political rally against the Lausanne Conference (1932) Goebbelsâ words and actions made little impact on the political loyalties of Berlin.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ "The Jews must get out of Germany, indeed out of Europe altogether," he wrote in his diary in November 1937.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ "That will take some time, but it must and will happen."- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ I must say it takes some huevos grande for anyone on foxnews to call someone else goebbels.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
[39] .^ By mid-1938 Goebbels was investigating the possibility of requiring all Jews to wear an identifying mark and of confining them to a ghetto , but these were ideas whose time had not yet come.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ On the other hand, the government is doing all it can to give working people the relaxation they need in these trying times.- Goebbels' 1943 Speech on Total War 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.calvin.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ These events were well-timed from the point of view of Goebbelsâ relations with Hitler.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ "Aim â drive the Jews out of Berlin," he wrote in his diary in June 1938, "and without any sentimentality."- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ "The Jews must get out of Germany, indeed out of Europe altogether," he wrote in his diary in November 1937.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[40]
.^ In November 1938, Goebbels got the chance to take decisive action against the Jews for which he had been waiting when a Jewish youth, Herschel Grynszpan , shot a German diplomat in Paris, Ernst vom Rath , in revenge for the deportation of his family to Poland and the persecution of German Jews generally.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ From May onwards, he orchestrated a "hate campaign" against Poland, fabricating stories about atrocities against ethnic Germans in Danzig and other cities.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Despite this, in an editorial in his newspaper Das Reich in November 1941 Goebbels quoted Hitlerâs 1939 "prophecy" that the Jews would be the loser in the coming world war.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[41] .^ On 9 November, the evening vom Rath died of his wounds, Goebbels was at the BĂŒrgerbrĂ€u Keller in Munich with Hitler, celebrating the anniversary of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch with a large crowd of veteran Nazis.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Hitlerâs imprisonment following the failed November 1923 " Beer Hall Putsch " left the party temporarily leaderless, and when the 27-year-old Goebbels joined the party in late 1924 the most important influence on his political development was Gregor Strasser , who became Nazi organizer in northern Germany in March 1924.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Goebbels told Hitler that "spontaneous" anti-Jewish violence had already broken out in German cities, although in fact this was not true: this was a clear case of Goebbels manipulating Hitler for his own ends. When Hitler said he approved of what was happening, Goebbels took this as authorization to organize a massive, nationwide
pogrom against the Jews. He wrote in his diary:
[Hitler] decides: demonstrations should be allowed to continue. The police should be withdrawn.
.^ For once the Jews should get the feel of popular anger ...- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
I immediately gave the necessary instructions to the police and the Party. Then I briefly spoke in that vein to the Party leadership. Stormy applause.
.^ All are instantly at the phones.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Now people will act.
[42]
It is clear that the idea of a state-sponsored pogrom originated with Goebbels, and that he gained Hitlerâs approval for it by falsely telling Hitler that it had already begun.
.^ The result of Goebbelsâ incitement was Kristallnacht , the "Night of Broken Glass," during which the S.A. and Nazi Party went on a rampage of anti-Jewish violence and destruction, killing at least 90 and maybe as many as 200 people (not counting several hundred suicides), destroying over a thousand synagogues and hundreds of Jewish businesses and homes, and dragging some 30,000 Jews off to concentration camps, where at least another thousand died before the remainder were released after several months of brutal treatment.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Kristallnacht " refers to the broken glass spread on the streets, as the Nazis smashed the windows of thousands of Jewish businesses.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The Nazi Partyâs use of torchlight parades, brass bands, massed choirs, and similar techniques caught the imagination of many voters, particularly young people.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
The longer-term effect was to drive 80,000 Jews to emigrate, most leaving behind all their property in their desperation to escape.
.^ Foreign opinion reacted with horror, bringing to a sudden end the climate of appeasement of Nazi Germany in the western democracies.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Goebbelsâ pogrom thus moved Germany significantly closer to war, at a time when rearmament was still far from complete.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ It was a constant annoyance to Goebbels that, at a time when Germany was fighting for its life on the eastern front, there were still 40,000 Jews in Berlin.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ This afternoon on Fox, Burnett compared watching Al GoreĂąâŹâąs movie, An Inconvenient Truth, to watching a movie by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels to learn about Nazi Germany.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
^ You donât go see Joseph Goebbelsâ films to see the truth about Nazi Germany.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
^ This afternoon on Fox, Burnett compared watching Al Goreâs movie, An Inconvenient Truth , to watching a movie by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels to learn about Nazi Germany.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
[43] .^ Goebbels, however, was delighted.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
"As was to be expected, the entire nation is in uproar," he wrote.
.^ "This is one dead man who is costing the Jews dear.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ One man who called Goreâs movie the equivalent of Goebbelâs Nazi propaganda film.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
^ Well boys and girls does any one remember which oil company helped those who couldnĂąâŹâąt afford the high-energy cost???- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
.^ Our darling Jews will think twice in future before gunning down German diplomats."- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Weâre not there to have sympathy with the Jews, but only sympathy with our own German people.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[44] .^ In 1942 Goebbels was involved in the deportation of Berlin's Jews.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Goebbels immediately pressed for the Berlin Jews to be deported first.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Deportations of Berlin Jews to the ĆĂłdĆș ghetto began in October, but transport and other difficulties made the process much slower than Goebbels desired.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[45]Man of Power
.^ These events were well-timed from the point of view of Goebbelsâ relations with Hitler.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ But Goebbels always had to bow to Hitlerâs views.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ These events damaged Goebbelsâ standing with Hitler, and his zeal in furthering Hitlerâs anti-Semitic agenda was in part an effort to restore his reputation.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
In 1937, he had begun an intense affair with the
Czech actress
LĂda BaarovĂĄ, causing the break-up of her marriage.
.^ The fact that Hitler was fond of Magda Goebbels and the children also gave Goebbels entrĂ©e to Hitlerâs inner circle.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ When Magda Goebbels learned of this affair in October 1938, she complained to Hitler, a conservative in sexual matters who was fond of Magda and the Goebbels' young children.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Together with Stumpfegger, she [Magda Goebbels] opened the mouths of the sleeping children, put an ampule of poison between their teeth and forced their jaws together."- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ He ordered Goebbels to break off his affair, whereupon Goebbels offered his resignation, which Hitler refused.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Goebbels capitulated completely, offering Hitler his total loyalty â a pledge which was clearly sincere, and which he adhered to until the end of his life.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ By July, Goebbels was lamenting that Hitler had cut himself off from the people â it was noted, for example, that he never visited the bomb-ravaged cities of the Ruhr .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
On 15 October, Goebbels attempted suicide. A furious Hitler then ordered Himmler to remove BaarovĂĄ from Germany, and she was deported to Czechoslovakia, from where she later left for
Italy.
.^ Conservative hired guns, funded by such good corporate citizens as ExxonMobil, are comparing Goreâs effort to what Josef Goebbels did for Hitler.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
[46] The BaarovĂĄ affair, however, did nothing to dampen Goebbels' enthusiasm for womanizing.
.^ As late as 1943, the Hitler Youth leader Artur Axmann was ingratiating himself with Goebbels by procuring young women for him.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ By July, Goebbels was lamenting that Hitler had cut himself off from the people â it was noted, for example, that he never visited the bomb-ravaged cities of the Ruhr .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Goebbels deceived himself in thinking he was an impartial recorder whereas Olbermann doesn't bother, which makes him heads above Goebbels and the Fox News people.- Countdown: All Aboard The Double Talk Express! | Crooks and Liars 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC crooksandliars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[47]
.^ Goebbels, like all the Nazi leaders, could not afford to defy Hitlerâs will in matters of this kind.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Goebbels promised Hitler that he could raise a million new soldiers by means of a reorganisation of the Army, transferring personnel from the Navy and Luftwaffe , and purging the bloated Reich Ministries which satraps like Göring had hitherto protected.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Hitler loathed modernism of all kinds, and Goebbels (whose own tastes were sympathetic to modernism) was forced to acquiesce in imposing very traditionalist forms on the artistic and musical worlds.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ An eye for an eye makes us all blind.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
^ By 1938, they had all become wealthy men, but their wealth was dependent on Hitlerâs continuing goodwill and willingness to turn a blind eye to their corruption.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Well until Fox came along.- McClellan: White House gave FOX commentators talking points | Crooks and Liars 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC crooksandliars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ One man who called Goreâs movie the equivalent of Goebbelâs Nazi propaganda film.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
^ Sterling Burnett, senior fellow at the Exxon-backed National Center for Policy Analysis, compared Al Gore to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
These payments were in effect bribes from the papersâ publisher
Max Amann. He owned a villa by the lake at
Wannsee and another on
Lake Constance in the south, which he spent 2.2 million
Reichsmarks refurbishing.
.^ The tax office, as it did for all the Nazi leaders, gave him generous exemptions.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Goebbels, like all the Nazi leaders, could not afford to defy Hitlerâs will in matters of this kind.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[48] Hitler apparently connived at the corruption of his lieutenants because of the power it gave him over them.
[citation needed]
.^ One man who called Goreâs movie the equivalent of Goebbelâs Nazi propaganda film.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
^ Joseph Goebbels and his boss, Prescott Bush's pal Adolph Hitler, would have cummed in their pants if they had Fox Snooze during their reign of terror.- Countdown: All Aboard The Double Talk Express! | Crooks and Liars 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC crooksandliars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Joseph Goebbels and his boss, Prescott Bush's pal Adolph Hitler, would have cum med in their pants if they had Fox Snooze during their reign of terror.- Countdown: All Aboard The Double Talk Express! | Crooks and Liars 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC crooksandliars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Since his offices were close to the Chancellery, he was a frequent guest for lunch, during which he became adept at listening to Hitlerâs monologues and agreeing with his opinions.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ In the months leading up to the war, his influence began to increase again.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Once war began in September 1939, Goebbels began a steady process of extending his influence over domestic policy.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ During World War II , Goebbels increased his power and influence through shifting alliances with other Nazi leaders.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ He ranked along with Joachim von Ribbentrop , Göring, Himmler, and Martin Bormann as the senior Nazi with the most access to Hitler, which in an autocratic regime meant access to power.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Following the Allied invasion of Italy and the fall of Benito Mussolini in September, he and Joachim von Ribbentrop raised with Hitler the possibility of secretly approaching Joseph Stalin and negotiating a separate peace behind the backs of the western Allies.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ By the mid-1930s, Hitlerâs most powerful subordinates were Hermann Göring , as head of the Four Year Plan for crash rearmament, and Heinrich Himmler , head of the SS and police apparatus.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The fact that Hitler was fond of Magda Goebbels and the children also gave Goebbels entrĂ©e to Hitlerâs inner circle.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Together with Stumpfegger, she [Magda Goebbels] opened the mouths of the sleeping children, put an ampule of poison between their teeth and forced their jaws together."- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ According to Kunz's testimony, he gave the children morphine injections but it was Magda Goebbels and Stumpfegger, Hitler's personal doctor, who then administered the cyanide.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The Goebbelses were regular visitors to Hitlerâs Bavarian mountain retreat, the Berghof .- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ But he was not kept directly informed of military and diplomatic developments, relying on second-hand accounts to hear what Hitler was doing.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[49]
Goebbels at war
.^ In the years 1936 to 1939, Hitler, while professing his desire for peace, led Germany firmly and deliberately towards a confrontation.- Boston University School of Theology Archives 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC sthweb.bu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[50] .^ For one thing, Goebbels was self-loathing, and more propagandistic even in the days of the Kaisers than Olbermann could be in his wildest dreams.- Countdown: All Aboard The Double Talk Express! | Crooks and Liars 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC crooksandliars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[51] He saw it as his job to make the German people accept this and if possible welcome it.
.^ The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Most wars are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
[52] .^ Sirvan de ejemplo las palabras del tan mencionado Joseph Goebbels, Ministro de IlustraciĂłn Popular y Propaganda de Adolf Hitler: .- Joseph Goebbels: ïżœSigue vivo en la propaganda mundial?- Monografias.com 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.monografias.com [Source type: General]
From May onwards, he orchestrated a "hate campaign" against Poland, fabricating stories about atrocities against ethnic Germans in
Danzig and other cities. Even so, he was unable to persuade the majority of Germans to welcome the prospect of war.
[53]
Once war began in September 1939, Goebbels began a steady process of extending his influence over domestic policy. After 1940, Hitler made few public appearances, and even his broadcasts became less frequent, so Goebbels increasingly became the face and the voice of the Nazi regime for the German people.
[54] With Hitler preoccupied with the war, Himmler focusing on the "final solution to the Jewish question" in eastern Europe, and with
Hermann Göringâs position declining with the failure of the German Air Force (
Luftwaffe), Goebbels sensed a power vacuum in domestic policy and moved to fill it. Since civilian morale was his responsibility, he increasingly concerned himself with matters such as wages, rationing and housing, which affected morale and therefore productivity. He came to see the lethargic and demoralized Göring, still Germanyâs economic supremo as head of the Four Year Plan Ministry, as his main enemy. To undermine Göring, he forged an alliance with Himmler, although the SS chief remained wary of him.
.^ People who actually know a lot about a few things are much more useful than some moron who knows a little about many things.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
However, in February 1943, the crushing German defeat at the
Battle of Stalingrad produced a crisis in the regime. Goebbels was forced to ally himself with Göring to thwart a bid for power by Bormann, head of the Nazi Party Chancellery and Secretary to the
FĂŒhrer. Bormann exploited the disaster at Stalingrad, and his daily access to Hitler, to persuade him to create a three-man
junta representing the State, the Army, and the Party, represented respectively by
Hans Lammers, head of the
Reich Chancellery, Field Marshal
Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the
OKW (armed forces high command), and Bormann, who controlled the Party and access to the
FĂŒhrer. This Committee of Three would exercise dictatorial powers over the home front. Goebbels, Speer, Göring and Himmler all saw this proposal as a power grab by Bormann and a threat to their power, and combined to block it.
However, their alliance was shaky at best.
.^ But beyond that, because most of these folks are puppets is someting far more sinister and that is the fact that , which can be supported through research, that this has been going on historically forever as one Republic or power base if you will, is substituted for another.- ABCâs V: Joseph Goebbels Would Be Proud 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Goebbels instead tried to persuade Hitler to appoint Göring as head of the government.
.^ Be very wary of this, as these people function through problem, reaction â solution logic, and any problem reacted to they will have a solution planned for, they are not one dimensional in their control strategies.- ABCâs V: Joseph Goebbels Would Be Proud 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
However, this proposal was increasingly unworkable given Göringâs increasing incapacity and, more importantly, Hitlerâs increasing contempt for him due to his blaming of Göring for Germany's defeats. This was a measure by Hitler designed to deflect criticism from himself.
.^ War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing...- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Goebbels siempre contaba con trascendentales resultados a partir de unas declaraciones de Hitler, especialmente durante una crisis.- Joseph Goebbels: ïżœSigue vivo en la propaganda mundial?- Monografias.com 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.monografias.com [Source type: General]
[55]
.^ Sterling Burnett, senior fellow at the Exxon-backed National Center for Policy Analysis, compared Al Gore to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
On 18 February, he delivered a passionate "
Total War Speech" at the
Sports Palace in Berlin.
.^ It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
^ I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
To motivate the German people to continue the struggle, he cited three theses as the basis of this argument:
.^ In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
^ OK, true, Nazi Germany was much worse than Goebbelsâs films would ever show.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
^ I do not believe any policy which has behind it the threat of military force is justified as part of the basic foreign policy of the United States except to defend the liberty of our own people.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
Germany had to act quickly and decisively, or it would be too late.
Goebbels concluded that "Two thousand years of Western history are in danger," and he blamed Germany's failures on the Jews.
Goebbels hoped in this way to persuade Hitler to give him and his ally Speer control of domestic policy for a program of total commitment to arms production and full labor conscription, including women. But Hitler, supported by Göring, resisted these demands, which he feared would weaken civilian morale and lead to a repetition of the debacle of 1918, when the German army had been undermined (in Hitler's view) by a collapse of the home front.
.^ Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
Goebbels privately lamented "a complete lack of direction in German domestic policy," but of course he could not directly criticize Hitler or go against his wishes.
[56]Goebbels and the Holocaust
Heinrich Himmler, one of the architects of the Holocaust, preferred that the matter not be discussed in public.
.^ About the quote : This quote comes from "Homage to Catalonia," Orwell's 1936 eyewitness account of the Spanish Civil War.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
^ One day the end of the world will come as a result of a 'justified' war.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
[57] .^ Now, the same is true of the hijacked US government.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
It now perishes according to its own precept of âan eye for an eye and a tooth for a toothâ!"
[58]
In 1939, in a speech to the Reichstag, Hitler had said:
.^ War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war...- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
^ One day the end of the world will come as a result of a 'justified' war.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
[59]
.^ There are usually good articles and comments and Alex does make some good DVDs that wake people up.- ABCâs V: Joseph Goebbels Would Be Proud 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[60]
The decision in principle to deport the German and
Austrian Jews to unspecified destinations "in the east" was made in September. Goebbels immediately pressed for the Berlin Jews to be deported first. He traveled to Hitlerâs headquarters on the eastern front, meeting both Hitler and
Reinhard Heydrich to lobby for his demands. He got the assurances he wanted: "The
FĂŒhrer is of the opinion," he wrote, "that the Jews eventually have to be removed from the whole of Germany. The first cities to be made Jew-free are Berlin,
Vienna and
Prague. Berlin is first in the queue, and I have the hope that weâll succeed in the course of this year."
[61]Deportations of Berlin Jews to the
ĆĂłdĆș ghetto began in October, but transport and other difficulties made the process much slower than Goebbels desired. His November article in
Das Reich was part of his campaign to have the pace of deportation accelerated.
With regard to the Jewish Question, the
FĂŒhrer is determined to make a clean sweep of it.
.^ They can carp about us to one another as easily as they can to us.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
^ Nick, that would fall in with news my neighbor told me this morning about an alien finger that Jimmy Stewart brought over from the himalayas back in â79.- ABCâs V: Joseph Goebbels Would Be Proud 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
That was no empty talk.
.^ There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international terrorism.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
^ (Goebbels and his wife killed their six children before killing themselves a week before the surrender that ended of the Second World War.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
^ Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason--hubris.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
The annihilation of Jewry must be the necessary consequence. The question is to be viewed without any sentimentality.
.^ I do not believe any policy which has behind it the threat of military force is justified as part of the basic foreign policy of the United States except to defend the liberty of our own people.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Dresden was bombed night and day until over 267,000 people were dead.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
[62]
.^ All the old shows was best now itâs more Mind control rubbish and boring TV now.- ABCâs V: Joseph Goebbels Would Be Proud 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
There they could be worked into extinction in accordance with the plan agreed on at the
Wannsee Conference convened by Heydrich in January. It was a constant annoyance to Goebbels that, at a time when Germany was fighting for its life on the eastern front, there were still 40,000 Jews in Berlin.
[63] They should be "carted off to Russia," he wrote in his diary. "It would be best to kill them altogether."
[64] .^ However I know without a doubt there is selective censorship happening.- ABCâs V: Joseph Goebbels Would Be Proud 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
Although the Propaganda Ministry was not invited to the Wannsee Conference, Goebbels knew by March what had been decided there.
[65] He wrote:
The Jews are now being deported to the east.
.^ People who actually know a lot about a few things are much more useful than some moron who knows a little about many things.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
^ Some of the comments today look much more to me like some of the hate-filled scree Iâm more used to seeing on right-wing sites.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
In general, it can probably be established that 60 percent of them must be liquidated, while only 40 percent can be put to work [âŠ] A judgment is being carried out on the Jews which is barbaric, but fully deserved.
[66]
Plenipotentiary for Total War
9 March 1945: Goebbels inspects members of the German home guard
.^ I do not believe any policy which has behind it the threat of military force is justified as part of the basic foreign policy of the United States except to defend the liberty of our own people.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
The German peopleâs faith in Hitler was shaken by the disaster at Stalingrad, and never fully recovered.
[67] During 1943, as the
Soviet armies advanced towards the borders of the
Reich, the western
Allies developed the ability to launch devastating air raids on most German cities, including Berlin. At the same time, there were increasingly critical shortages of food, raw materials, fuel and housing.
.^ OK, true, Nazi Germany was much worse than Goebbelsâs films would ever show.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
^ One man who called Goreâs movie the equivalent of Goebbelâs Nazi propaganda film.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
^ You donĂąâŹâąt go see Joseph GoebbelsĂąâŹâą films to see the truth about Nazi Germany.â .- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
Their solution was to seize control of the home front from the indecisive Hitler and the incompetent Göring.
.^ No longer making any secret of their purposes, they are now boldly rising up against God Himself.- ABCâs V: Joseph Goebbels Would Be Proud 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Or will they make them Evil as a way to discredit us who are trying to wake the masses.- ABCâs V: Joseph Goebbels Would Be Proud 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
After Stalingrad, Hitler increasingly withdrew from public view, almost never appearing in public and rarely even broadcasting. By July, Goebbels was lamenting that Hitler had cut himself off from the people â it was noted, for example, that he never visited the bomb-ravaged cities of the
Ruhr. "One canât neglect the people too long," he wrote.
.^ What a cruel thing is war...to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Despite the seemingly genuine smiles and warm, fuzzy stories they do not have our best interests close to their hearts.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
[68] Goebbels himself became the public voice of the Nazi regime, both in his regular broadcasts and his weekly editorials in
Das Reich.
.^ As for Goreâs film⊠well, I seem to recall the âtaking an entourage to the showingâ claim a few days ago; it was debunked â they walked.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
^ It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it only takes twenty seconds of war to destroy him.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
^ This guy put alot of effort into this from looks of it.- ABCâs V: Joseph Goebbels Would Be Proud 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[69].^ About the quote : Van Seeckt was German military officer who lived from 1866-1936.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
Our soldiers in the East will do their part. They will stop the storm from the steppes, and ultimately break it. They fight under unimaginable conditions. But they are fighting a good fight.
.^ Men are fighting...because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
[70]
In private, he was discouraged by the failure of his and Speerâs campaign to gain control of the home front.
Goebbels remained preoccupied with the annihilation of the Jews, which was now reaching its climax in the extermination camps of eastern
Poland.
.^ I do not believe any policy which has behind it the threat of military force is justified as part of the basic foreign policy of the United States except to defend the liberty of our own people.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
^ He stated that he purposefully wrote it this way to reflect the globalists plans and what is really going on in our world governments as a way to get the truth out to anyone who cares to look at it.- ABCâs V: Joseph Goebbels Would Be Proud 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ However, the material there demands more of an attention-span than Blue-State Red would ever be able to muster, so it most likely wonât do him much good.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
.^ One day the end of the world will come as a result of a 'justified' war.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
^ War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
^ These people are trying to shake the will of the Iraqi citizens, and they want us to leave...I think the world would be better off if we did leave...- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
This process is of vast importance."
[71]Following the Allied invasion of Italy and the fall of
Benito Mussolini in September, he and
Joachim von Ribbentrop raised with Hitler the possibility of secretly approaching
Joseph Stalin and negotiating a separate peace behind the backs of the western Allies.
.^ Conservative hired guns, funded by such good corporate citizens as ExxonMobil, are comparing Goreâs effort to what Josef Goebbels did for Hitler.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
A great German victory must occur before any negotiations should be undertaken, he reasoned.
[72] The German defeat at
Kursk in July had, however, ended any possibility of this. Goebbels knew by this stage that the war was lost.
[citation needed].^ OK, true, Nazi Germany was much worse than Goebbelsâs films would ever show.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
In July, following the Allied landings in France and the huge Soviet advances in
Belarus, Hitler finally agreed to grant both of them increased powers.
.^ Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
^ No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
^ All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ While I am not in the same ideological camp as either Blue State Red or Stefan, I took the time to enter âAl Gore oil stocksâ into a search engine.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
.^ They have been responsible for all of the big wars of the last 100 years.- ABCâs V: Joseph Goebbels Would Be Proud 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Governments use national animosities, foreign wars and the glamour of empire-making, in order to...divert rising sentiment against domestic abuses.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
In this Bormann was very successful, as the Party Gauleiter gained more and more powers, becoming Reich Defense Commissars (
Reichsverteidigungskommissare) in their respective districts and overseeing all civilian administration.
.^ The bad guy, the general Ant set up a fake preventive war against the termites, in order to send the troops faithfull to the queen.- ABCâs V: Joseph Goebbels Would Be Proud 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Power is usurped from the people, first by implementing fear, then it is maintained by slandering as 'unpatriotic' those who refuse submission.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ (Goebbels and his wife killed their six children before killing themselves a week before the surrender that ended of the Second World War.- Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
.^ Posteriormente, como es sabido, se suicidaron Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler (a cargo de la consolidaciĂłn de las Schutzsaffel, conocidas como SS, la GESTAPO y la red de campos de concentraciĂłn) y Joseph Goebbels, quien junto con su esposa envenenĂł a sus hijos para posteriormente quitarse su propia vida.- Joseph Goebbels: ïżœSigue vivo en la propaganda mundial?- Monografias.com 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC www.monografias.com [Source type: General]
When elements of the army leadership tried to assassinate Hitler in the
July 20 plot shortly thereafter, it was this trio that rallied the resistance to the plotters. It was Goebbels, besieged in his Berlin apartment with Speer and secretary
Wilfred von Oven beside him but with his phone lines intact, who brought
Otto Ernst Remer, the wavering commander of the Berlin garrison, to the phone to speak to Hitler in East Prussia, thus demonstrating that the
FĂŒhrer was alive and that the garrison should oppose the attempted coup.
[73]Goebbels promised Hitler that he could raise a million new soldiers by means of a reorganisation of the Army, transferring personnel from the Navy and
Luftwaffe, and purging the bloated
Reich Ministries which satraps like Göring had hitherto protected. As it turned out, the inertia of the state bureaucracy was too great even for the energetic Goebbels to overcome. Bormann and his puppet Lammers, keen to retain their control over the Party and State administrations respectively, placed endless obstacles in Goebbelsâs way.
[74] .^ I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
Speer, allied with
Fritz Sauckel, the General Plenipotentiary for the Employment of Labor from 1942, generally won these battles.
[75].^ Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.- Quotes 6 January 2010 8:30 UTC antiwar.com [Source type: Original source]
The combined economic and military power of the western Allies and the Soviet Union, now fully mobilized, was simply too great for Germany to overcome. A crucial economic indicator, the ratio of steel output, was running at 4.5:1 against Germany. The final blow was the loss of the
Romanian oil fields as the Soviet Army advanced through the
Balkans in September. This, combined with the U.S. air campaign against Germanyâs synthetic oil production, finally broke the back of the German economy and thus its capacity for further resistance.
[76] By this time, the best Goebbels could do to reassure the German people that victory was still possible was to make vague promises that "miracle weapons" such as the
Me 262 jet airplane, the
Type XXI U-boat, and the
V-2 rocket could somehow retrieve the military situation.
Defeat and death
In the last months of the war, Goebbelsâs speeches and articles took on an increasingly
apocalyptic tone:
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