... by the end of the year, was already the principal collaborator of Gregor Strasser, the leader of the social revolutionary North German Wing of the party.# On the 13th March, 1933, Dr. Goebbels was rewarded with the position of Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, which gave him total control of the communications media. Like Hitler, Goebbels believed propaganda to be of the highest importance. He believed that "the effective propagandist must be the master of the art of speech, of writing, or journalism, of the ... poster and of the ... ...

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... totalitarian state, German culture had to be coordinated so it did not go against the Nazis. German music and art had to be assimilated by the Nazis. Just over a month after Hitler became Chancellor he appointed Josef Goebbels as Minister for Public Enlightenment & Propaganda. Goebbels began a campaign aimed at destroying all literary, artistic and ... journalistic opposition to the Nazis. "In order to pursue a policy of German culture, it is necessary to gather together the creative artists in all spheres into a unified organization under the Reich's leadership. The Reich must determine...

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... that "in Nazi Germany it [was] considered worthy of an entire government department"(Rhodes 11). They made propaganda its own section in the government to regulate and monitor what the German people would be hearing for the next several years to come. "On March 13, the Ministry for Popular Enlightenment was founded under the direction of Dr.Josef Goebbels"(Rhodes 11). "Hitler met [Goebbels] ... in 1926 and quickly appreciating his oratorical power of persuasion, made him head the Party Propaganda department "(Rhodes 13 ... friends" house"(Rhodes 27). The warden would also send in "regu...

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• Grade Level: High School