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of effective propaganda, 45–46
National Front, 135–36, 138–39
prayer: socialist equivalent of, 11
Naumann, Konrad, 133
press: failure to trust the, 106; in Hitler’s
Nelken, Peter, 120, 124
Germany, 124; in the GDR, 124–25;
neue Gemeinschaft, Die, 34, 64
and stability, 107
Neubert, Ehrhart, 147–48
propaganda: atheistic, 146; Cold War, 12;
Neues Deutschland, 31, 32, 68, 101, 103,
central bureaucracies of, 71; compared
142
with religion, 39; deceitful, 161;
Neuer Weg, 79, 82–83
definitions of, 2–5; and evidence, 160;
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failure of, 155–69; Hitler’s sources on,
and Marxism-Leninism, 6, 27–31;
42; influence of, 36–38; methods
political, 156; and propaganda, 4;
“baptized,” 50; no ABC of, 42–48; and
rituals of, 145–46; state, 5–6, 156. See
emotions, 43–45, 52–53; as Marxist-
also church
Leninist science, 53; as means to an
Ribbentrop, Joachim, 58, 65
end, 44; ministry, 91; as monologue,
Richert, Ernst, 84
45; and news, 161–62; plans
Riefenstahl, Leni, 55; Triumph of the Will
contrasted, 86–88; principles of, 43; as
(film), 1, 16, 20, 55; Victory of Faith
promoter of hypocrisy, 162, 166; as
(film), 20
public education, 42–43; as quasi-
RKK. See Reich Chamber of Culture
religious phenomenon, 11; relation to
Röhl, Ernst, 118–19
agitation, 3; reputation defended, 2;
Röhm, Ernst, 162
and repetition, 45; rhetorical straight
Rosenberg, Alfred, 19, 58, 110; control of
jacket of, 55; theoretical approaches
holidays, 19–20; Goebbels’s opinion of,
to, 41–42; totalitarian, 160–61; and
65; grandiose title, 64; and RPL, 64; as
truthfulness, 52. See also Mein Kampf;
theoretician, 64
Marxism-Leninism; leadership;
Rothschilds, Die (film), 113
Propaganda and National Power
RPL. See Central Propaganda Office
(Hadamovsky), 48
propaganda materials, The Agitator’s
SA (Storm Troopers), 46, 62
Library, 81; The Fundamentals of
Saints, Nazi, 22–23
Bolshevist Agitation, 81; Handbook for salvation: intellectual, 14
Political Work in Military Groups and
satire: and Brennessel, 119–28; and
Units, 83–84; Notizbuch des Agitators, 83; complaining, 121–24; domestic targets,
Questions and Answers, 81; RADAR, 84; 121–22; and Eulenspiegel, 103–4,
Unser Wille und Weg, 18, 61, 75–78, 86,
119–28; international targets of,
135; WAS und WIE, 67, 81, 83, 86
120–21
Propaganda Ministry (RMVP), 60, 62, 67,
Schabowski, Günter, 133, 143, 162
69; divisions of, 60
Scherzer, Landolf, 134
propagandists, 85; lower level, 75; as a
Schmitz, Johannes, 91
nuisance, 78; reading list for, 49
Schnitzler, Karl Eduard von, 116
public opinion, 135–44; Nazi reports on,
Schuller, Wolfgang, 164
136–37
Schulungsbrief, Der, 76, 78
Schutzstaffel (SS), 62, 90
Raddatz, Klaus, 94
Schwarz van Berk, Hans, 99
radio. See broadcasting
Schwarze Kanal, Der, (TV program), 116
Ragwitz, Ursula, 118
Schwarze Korps, Das, 90, 105, 150
Raskin, Adolf, 47
7 October, 32–33; sharp sword,
Reich, Das, 97, 99
propaganda as, 148–51
Reich Chamber of Culture (RKK), 61, 65
silence: strategy of, 97–98
Reich Chamber of Film, 112
Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service or SD), Reich Chamber of the Press, 90
97–98, 100, 136, 145, 161
Reich Circle for National Socialist
Simplicissimus, 117, 119
Propaganda and People’s
Sindermann, Horst, 67, 164
Enlightenment, 62–63, 77
Singer, Rudolf, 67
Reichskulturkammer (RKK), 61, 65
Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED),
Reichspropagandaleitung. See Central
27, 28, 49, 93, 133; Agitation
Propaganda Office
Department, 66–67, 81, 83, 93–94,
Reichsring für nationalsozialistiche
118, 161; leaders of, 66; party statute,
Propaganda und Volksaufklärung, 62–63,
133–34; Propaganda Department,
77
66–67; publishing house of, 50;
religion: absolute claims of, 46; co-opted
Society for German-Soviet Friendship
by Nazism, 144; external
(DSF), 138–39
characteristics of, 36; and Hitler, 5, 46;
Song of the Faithful, The, 15–16
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speakers: active party members, 37, 74;
literature, 115; “Ten Commandments
categories of Nazi, 73–74; Nazi system
for the New Socialist Person,” 34–35;
of, 61–62
and Walter Ulbricht: A Life for Germany,
Speer, Albert, 60, 110–11, 165–66, 168
28–29
Sputnik, 28
unanimity, 132–35, 138; critical role of,
Stalin, Joseph, 161, 165; cult of, 27–28
132; and elections, 134–36; facade of,
Stalingrad: battle of, 96–100
141, 143, 150, 156, 158–59; pressure
Statt-Kirchentag, 147
for, 132–33, 167; price of, 151–53
Stasi (Ministry of State Security), 142–43,
Unser Wille und Weg, 18, 61, 75–78, 86,
156
135
Stellrecht, Helmut: Faith and Action, 24
Unsere Parole, 76
Stern, J. P., 157–58
Utopia: secular, 38
Streicher, Julius, 18, 138, 141
Stürmer, Der, 26, 138, 141
Veritatis Splendor (Pope John Paul II), 168
Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht
Vernier, Paul, 114
(OKW), 96–97
Victory of Faith (film), 20
virtues: of Marxism-Leninism, 40; of
television, 92, 94–95, 116; and Hitler, 16;
Nazism, 24; traditional German, 34–35
under SED agitation department, 116
Voegelin, Erich, 6, 11
Thälmann Pioneers, 28. See Free German
Völkischer Beobachter, 23, 90, 109
Youth
Volkskammer, 135–36
Thälmann, Ernst, 28, 34
theater, 111–12
Walter Ulbricht: A Life for Germany, 28–29
Thingspiel, 111
Warsaw Pact, 102
Tießler, Walter, 62
WAS und WIE, 67, 81, 83, 86
Tisch, Harry, 106
Weber, Hermann, 144
Todt, Fritz, 111
Winter Relief ca
mpaign, 72, 122
totalitarianism, 131; arguments against,
Wolf, Christa, 116
12; comprehensive, 36; as form of
worldviews, 12; conflict among, 39; GDR
religious expression, 12; as state
definition, 13–14; and interior
religion, 13; and truth, 13; used in
decoration, 13; Marxism-Leninism as,
classic sense, 12; as worldview, 13
53; National Socialism as, 17, 24–25,
Triumph of the Will (film), 1, 16, 20, 23
99, 149. See also church; Goebbels;
Trommel, 14, 103
speakers; totalitarianism
Ulbricht, Walter, 28, 66, 102, 133, 165;
Zeitschriften-Dienst, 92
and architecture, 114–15; and
ZK. See Central Committee of the SED
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