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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction Propaganda, ‚Co-ordination‘ and ‚Centralisation‘: The Goebbels Network in Search of a Total Empire ‚Polyocracy‘ versus ‚Centralisation‘: The Multiple ‚Networks‘ of NS Propaganda The Discourses of NS Propaganda: Long-term Employment and Short-term Justification From ‚Short Campaign‘ to ‚Gigantic Confrontation‘: NS Propaganda and the Justification of War, 1939-1941 From Triumph to Disaster: NS Propaganda from the Launch of ‚Barbarossa‘ until Stalingrad National Socialist Propaganda and the Loss of the Monopoly of Truth (1943-44) The Winding Road To Defeat: The Propaganda Of Diversion And Negative Integration Cinema and Totalitarian Propaganda: ‚Information‘ and ‚Leisure‘ in National Socialist Germany, 1939-45 Conclusions: Legitimising the Impossible? Bibliography
Über den Autor
ARISTOTLE A. KALLIS is Lecturer in European Studies at Lancaster University, UK, and researches in interwar European fascism with a particular focus on the German and Italian cases. He is the author of
Fascist Ideology: Territory and Expansionism in Italy and Germany 1922-1945 (Routledge 2000) and editor of
The Fascism Reader (Routledge 2004).