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• Able, intelligent and cultured

• Power to manipulate

• Creator and organiser of Hitler Myth; controlled Hitler’s image;

• Hitler relied on Goebbels

• Rosenthal argues that “without Goebbels there was no Hitler.”

• Goebbels: “Everything is propaganda”

• Goebbels, in his 1934 New Year speech: “Only he who thinks he is lost is lost.”

• Goebbels, 1933: “We want to work on people until they have capitulated to us”

• Wanted to achieve maximum saturation of Nazi ideology to create complete loyalty and subservience

• Ministry if People’s Enlightenment and Propaganda enabled Goebbels to shape the development of culture at all levels

• Organised the Berlin Olympics 1936

• Inspired ‘Kristallnacht’ against the Jews

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These notes are aimed at A Level history students.

Originally written by dudey_cool on TSR Forums.