Joseph Goebbels was not easily promoted to the post of Minister of

Propaganda and Integration. He's come a long way until he gets the job.

with which he had dreamed. Meticulously, he was eliminating enemies that could

threat Germany or within these enemies were not only Bolsheviks. Was collecting Ûdios and grudges that when it is seated in the chair of the power, soon tries to get revenge. Strange as it may seem, Adolf Hitler was restraining impetuosity so that it could not call into question its pursuit of the consolidation of absolute power.

 

Nazi Propaganda was intended to lead the people, underpinned by a new

ideal of beauty and physical well-being, for the construction of a new and enlarged

Germany. Workers should feel happy and

seen a greater good to their country. The construction of a common objective through

of rallies (commissions) carried out in the various Gaue led to the "the needy

of a new hope”. The obstinacy of Goebbels in controlling all possible avenues

of communication, leads to a real dispute over the subordination of the media cause. Broadcasting was a very powerful instrument and soon there was

a purge of all those who dared to diverge from the master lines conceived

by Goebbels and Hitler.

Goebbels used to organize, through Germany, in the early years,

an example of how the power of the word can influence first and then condition. The Leninist influence that the movement

Nazi propaganda suffered, led them to copy some of their structures as the cellular organization technique. The voice gains a new concept with the radio, echoing through various niches of crowds. One gains, on the one hand, by numerical relationship with which statistics can be fed, but it is lost in the objectivity that is achieved with individualized forms of persuasion. Without

This powerful resource was used to manipulate several direct means of propaganda such as the image, the idols, the statute, the architecture, the public spectacles, radio, and even the music.

 

Paul Joseph Goebbels was the Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany. Born in October 29, 1897, in Rheydt, Germany, Goebbels joined the National Socialist (Nazi) Party in 1924. He was chosen by Hitler to become district leader in Berlin. In 1927, he founded Der Angriff (The Attack), a weekly Nazi newspaper. The following year, he assumed the post of national propaganda director of the Party.

 

Goebbels was responsible for the dissemination of Nazi ideas and the creation of Hitler's image as the Führer, that is, leader. The work he and his team carried out consisted of the creation of posters, films, street shaking and other forms of approximation between what was defended by the Nazis and the common people whom they sought to convince. Newspapers, radio, films, theater, literature, music and the arts: all forms of media available in the period were used by Goebbels and the Nazi propaganda machine.

 

He couldn't join the war because of his many disabilities, which made him very disappointed. however, the way he found to contribute to the war was much more impacting, his propaganda. In 1933, Hitler became chancellor of Germany and appointed Goebbels to the post of minister of propaganda, a post of extreme importance for his government, because of him depended on the spreading of Nazism and persuasion of the population. It was also the responsibility of this ministry to control the entire German journalistic production, which led to strong censorship and persecution of Jewish journalists and other opposition groups. Under Hitler's orders, Goebbels summoned the population to boycott Jewish business, and the following year encouraged and organized the burning of books considered "non-German", which again attacked the Jewish population because, for the propaganda minister, "The age of extreme Jewish intellectualism has come to an end." Goebbels became especially feared by this section of the population, which witnessed, in the early 1930s, the advance of hate speech.

 

After the outbreak of World War II, Nazi propaganda became even more intense and seen all over the world: defeats became victories, fanciful speeches by the Führer and Germany were made, and the population was called upon to fight against enemies: Jews , Gypsies, Communists, Allies. In 1943, faced with the Allied pressure for German surrender, the idea of ​​"total war" came to be known. It was hoped to mobilize all the resources - physical, economic and military - possible in order to guarantee the Nazi victory.

 

Goebbels's power was such that he was appointed by the Führer to replace him, and after Hitler's suicide on April 30, 1945, Goebbels assumed the leadership of the Third Reich. He was a chancellor for only one day, because in the face of the nearer defeat, he followed the path of Hitler and, on May 1, committed suicide with his wife, Magda Goebbels, after giving lethal poison to his children.