... Republic (Segre, 2002). Political theorists, historians and writers all contributed in the 18th and 19th century to the development of European fascist thought. Joseph de Maistre despised the Enlightenment for taking power away from religion and traditional elites, just as Hippolyte Taine condemned the rise to power of the masses, whom he suggested were biologically inferior to aristocrats (RoSo, 2002 ... ). The ideology has been linked by some scholars to the socially radical Jacobins of the French Revolution, but others see it ... as a reactionary extreme-right conservatism against th...

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... and thoughts about rebuilding an entire country. In Hitler as philosophe:Remnats of the enlightenment in national socialism. Lawrence Birken (1995) writes, "Hitler's outlook was very much a part of the Western intellectual tradition. In his "combination of an almost religious faith with a revolutionary secularism," "Hitler represented the continuation of an essentially Enlightenment style of thought... Nazism, and especially Hitler's exposition of it, represented an attenuated ... and popularized form of the Enlightenment style of thought." Hitler also makes it very clear in his writing...

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... wide for his use of propaganda through the Nazi Party on his rise to power. Adolf was hugely efficient using propaganda because he knew exactly how it worked and how good propaganda affected the public. Appointed by Adolf, Dr. Joseph Goebbels was the German Minister of Propaganda and Enlightenment. He had two main tasks: to promote the name of the Nazi Party in a non-damaging way ... , and to ensure that the Nazis were as persuasive as possible. Thousands of propaganda posters were displayed all around ... Germany with encouraging catch phrases that promoted the Nazi Party. To the Germa...

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... which they have all been raised and had their political views modeled? Mayer also raises the subject of what it means to be "a real German- this realism dealing with personal views across the spectrum refers to "a reality in the world of ideas in the platonic sense (Mayer)."" What this enlightenment is referred to is, Volkism, this concept implies a soul's root to nature. These deep roots ... felt by Germans made the more global thinking of a democratic society that much more difficult to develop in ... the minds of these people who did feel so close to their own personal ancestry. Pre...

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... was going to work in creating a 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 lea...

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... going to work in creating a totalitarian state, German culture had to be co-ordinated 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 organisation under the Reich's leade...

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... 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). Goebbels knew exactly how to ... influence a crowd. He knew what made the masses tick. He al...

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... able to quickly ascend the ranks of the Nazi party. In 1925 he was made business manager of the NSDAP in the Ruhr district and 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 ... ...

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