Based on a detailed examination of specific aspects of Nazi propaganda, this book (originally published in 1983) enhances the understanding of National Socialism by revealing both its power and its limitations. The work tackles aspects of Nazi propaganda which had been neglected in the past, but together they demonstrate the disproportionate role assigned to propaganda in one of the most highly politicised societies in contemporary European history.
1. Introduction 2. Hitler’s Impact on the Lower Middle Class 3. Goebbels and the Function of Propaganda 4. Nazi Architecture – a Blueprint for World Domination: The Last Aims of Adolf Hitler 5. Educational Film Propaganda and the Nazi Youth 6. Structures of Consensus and Coercion: Workers’ Morale and the Maintenace of Work Discipline, 1939-1945 7. Propaganda, Autarky and the German Housewife 8. Nazi Propaganda in Occupied Western Europe: the Case of the Netherlands 9. Nazi film Propaganda in Occupied France 10. How Effective Was Nazi Propaganda?