Did Joseph Goebbels Use Of Propaganda

Emily March 19, 2017

Social Studies 7 Mr. Kennedy

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” These were words spoken by Joseph Goebbels, the leader of propaganda for the Nazi party. In this quote he is saying that if you come up with a big enough lie and you stick to it people will end up

He had total control over all of the media and the goal was to make sure that the Nazi message was positively conveyed through educational literature, books, films, radio, art, music, theater, and the press. His propaganda was aimed toward the Jews and it encouraged the message that Jews and other undesirable minorities were dangerous and bad to the Germans. It was also designed to deceive people and cover up the torture, killings and mass murder that were occurring in the concentration and labor camps. They used the propaganda to mobilize the Germans to support the war until the end of the regime. On May 10, 1933, Goebbels helped in staging “Burning of the Books” in Berlin where all of the books written by Jewish authors were

Each day the crowd grew larger trying to get their family members back. As the protests continued, the conditions the prisoners faced were not sanitary and were very overcrowded. The prisoners’ only hope was hearing the cries of the protestors outside the building. Public protests were not allowed and Joseph Goebbels felt that these protests needed to end before anti-Nazi thoughts started to spread. The Nazis tried closing the train station, firing shots into the crowd, and arresting some of the women to try to intimidate them, but the number of protesters continued to get larger. Finally, on March 6th Goebbels ordered the release of the prisoners and the return of the ones that had already been taken to the labor camp. In order to save their reputation, Goebbels put out propaganda telling a story of how the Gestapo abused its power by arresting the wrong people. For the thousands involved they were just happy to be reunited with their loved