Nazi Propaganda and the Second World War

✍ Scribed by Aristotle A. Kallis (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 306
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book analyzes the factors that determined the organization, conduct and output of Nazi propaganda during World War II, in an attempt to re-assess previously inflated perceptions about the influence of Nazi propaganda and the role of the regime's propagandists in the outcome of the 1939-45 military conflict.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: ‘Totalitarianism’, Propaganda, War and the Third Reich....Pages 1-15
Propaganda, ‘Co-ordination’ and ‘Centralisation’: The Goebbels Network in Search of a Total Empire....Pages 16-39
‘Polyocracy’ versus ‘Centralisation’: The Multiple ‘Networks’ of NS Propaganda....Pages 40-62
The Discourses of NS Propaganda: Long-Term Emplotment and Short-Term Justification....Pages 63-92
From ‘Short Campaign’ to ‘Gigantic Confrontation’: NS Propaganda and the Justification of War, 1939–41....Pages 93-110
From Triumph to Disaster: NS Propaganda from the Launch of ‘Barbarossa’ until Stalingrad....Pages 111-129
NS Propaganda and the Loss of the Monopoly of Truth (1943–44)....Pages 130-152
The Winding Road to Defeat: The Propaganda of Diversion and Negative Integration....Pages 153-184
Cinema and Totalitarian Propaganda: ‘Information’ and ‘Leisure’ in NS Germany, 1939–45....Pages 185-217
Conclusions: Legitimising the Impossible?....Pages 218-223
Back Matter....Pages 224-294

✦ Subjects

Political History; European History; Modern History; History of Germany and Central Europe; History of Military; World History, Global and Transnational History