Nazi Propaganda and the Second World War [electronic resource] /
Kallis, A.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'Totalitarianism', Propaganda, War and the Third Reich; 1 Propaganda, 'Co-ordination' and 'Centralisation': The Goebbels Network in Search of a Total Empire; 2 'Polyocracy' versus 'Centralisation': The Multiple 'Networks' of NS Propaganda; 3 The Discourses of NS Propaganda: Long-Term Emplotment and Short-Term Justification; 4 From 'Short Campaign' to 'Gigantic Confrontation': NS Propaganda and the Justification of War, 1939-41; 5 From Triumph to Disaster: NS Propaganda from the Launch of 'Barbarossa' until Stalingrad
6 NS Propaganda and the Loss of the Monopoly of Truth (1943-44)7 The Winding Road to Defeat: The Propaganda of Diversion and Negative Integration; 8 Cinema and Totalitarian Propaganda: 'Information' and 'Leisure' in NS Germany, 1939-45; Conclusions: Legitimising the Impossible?; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-282) and index.
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.
Goebbels, Joseph, 1897-1945.
World politics.
Europe—History.
History, Modern.
Europe, Central—History.
Military history.
World history.
Political History.
European History.
Modern History.
History of Germany and Central Europe.
History of Military.
World History, Global and Transnational History.