o'Big Lie - Goebbels: Propaganda (quote)

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"This is the secret of propaganda.  It is the saturation of a group of people with propagandist ideas without their even noticing it.  Of course, propaganda has a goal but the goal must be so clever and so brilliantly concealed that the people who are influenced by it don't notice anything."

-- Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Gauleiter of Berlin, Minister of Propaganda, Nazi Germany

(born Rheydt, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, October 29, 1897 - Berlin, Germany, May 1, 1945), German politician, Minister of Propaganda National Socialist Germany, a key figure in the regime, friend and intimate of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany's Chancellor in succession.

source: "A lie repeated a thousand times becomes the truth." -- Paul Joseph Goebbels, PhD.

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The Power of Nazi Paul Joseph Goebbels (film, 1h4313s)

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From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels
     Paul Joseph Goebbels (German: [ˈɡœbəls]; (29 October 1897 -- 1 May 1945) was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.  As one of Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers, he was known for his zealous orations and visceral and homicidal antisemitism.

     Goebbels earned a PhD from Heidelberg University in 1921, writing his doctoral thesis on 19th century romantic drama; he then went on to work as a journalist and later a bank clerk and caller on the stock exchange.  He also wrote novels and plays, which were rejected by publishers.  Goebbels came into contact with the National Socialist German Worker's Party (NSDAP) or Nazi Party in 1923 during the French occupation of the Ruhr and became a member in 1924.  He was appointed Gauleiter (regional party leader) of Berlin.  In this position, he put his propaganda skills to full use, combating the Social Democratic Party of Germany and Communist Party of Germany and seeking to gain their working class supporters.  Goebbels despised capitalism, viewing it as having Jews at its core, and he stressed the need for the Nazis to emphasize both a proletarian and national character.  By 1928, he had risen in the party ranks to become one of its most prominent members.

     Goebbels rose to power in 1933 along with Hitler and the Nazi Party and he was appointed Propaganda Minister.  One of his first acts was the burning of books.  He exerted totalitarian control over the media, arts and information in Germany.

     From the beginning of his tenure, Goebbels organized attacks on German Jews, commencing with the one-day boycott of Jewish businessmen, doctors, and lawyers on 1 April 1933.  His attacks on the Jewish population culminated in the Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) assault of 1938, an open and unrestrained pogrom unleashed by the Nazis across Germany, in which scores of synagogues were burned and hundreds of Jews were assaulted and murdered.  Further, he produced a series of antisemitic films (most notably Jud Süß).  Goebbels used modern propaganda techniques to ideologically prepare the German people for aggressive warfare.

     During World War II, Goebbels increased his power and influence through shifting alliances with other Nazi leaders.  By late 1943, the tide of the war was turning against the Axis powers, but this only spurred Goebbels to intensify the propaganda by urging the Germans to accept the idea of total war and mobilization. Goebbels remained with Hitler in Berlin to the end.  After Hitler's suicide, Goebbels succeeded him as Chancellor.  Goebbels along with his wife Magda killed their six young children, and then committed suicide.  The couple's bodies were burned in a shell crater, but owing to the lack of petrol, the burning was only partly effective.

     Nazi official Hans Frank suggested that Alois's mother had been employed as a housekeeper for a Jewish family in Graz and that the family's 19-year-old son, Leopold Frankenberger, had fathered Alois.  Because no Frankenberger was registered in Graz during that period, and no record of Leopold Frankenberger's existence has been produced, historians dismiss the claim that Alois's father was Jewish.[8][9]In private discussions in 1939, Hitler declared Britain the main enemy to be defeated and that Poland's obliteration was a necessary prelude to that goal. The eastern flank would be secured and land would be added to Germany's Lebensraum.  Offended by the British "guarantee" on 31 March 1939 of Polish independence, he said, "I shall brew them a devil's drink".  In a speech in Wilhelmshaven for the launch of the battleship Tirpitz on 1 April, he threatened to denounce the Anglo-German Naval Agreement if the British continued to guarantee Polish independence, which he perceived as an "encirclement" policy.  Poland was to either become a German satellite state or be neutralised to secure the Reich's eastern flank and to prevent a possible British blockade.  Hitler initially favoured the idea of a satellite state, but upon its rejection by the Polish government, he decided to invade and made this the main foreign policy goal of 1939.  On 3 April, Hitler ordered the military to prepare for Fall Weiss ("Case White"), the plan for invading Poland on 25 August.  In a Reichstag speech on 28 April, he renounced both the Anglo-German Naval Agreement and the German -- Polish Non-Aggression Pact.  In August, Hitler told his generals that his original plan for 1939 was to "... establish an acceptable relationship with Poland in order to fight against the West".  Historians such as William Carr, Gerhard Weinberg, and Ian Kershaw have argued that one reason for Hitler's rush to war was his fear of an early death.

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