Nazi Mouthpiece - Goebbels Quotes
Paul Joseph Goebbels
(German: Paul Joseph Goebbels, October 29, 1897 - —May 1, 1945), a German politician who served as Minister of Propaganda during Nazi Germany. He was known as the "genius of propaganda". He defended Hitler's regime with an iron fist and maintained the system of the Third Reich. He was considered to be the "creator of Hitler". people". Finally, according to Hitler's suicide note, he was appointed Chancellor of the Third Reich. He is the author of the novel "Michael" and the screenplays "The Wanderer" and "The Lonely Guest". In 1977, "Goebbels' Diary" was published in Hamburg, Germany.
Goebbels Effect
Repetition is a kind of power. A lie repeated a thousand times becomes the truth. This is the "Goebbels Effect". Some very important social laws and rules of life are hidden in complex social phenomena. Mastering them will help you discover the truth of things and gain a deeper understanding of society and human nature; using them rationally, many complex and difficult problems will be easily solved.
Goebbels’s famous saying
“Our propaganda targets are ordinary people, so the arguments of our propaganda must be rough, clear and powerful.”
"Truth is irrelevant and completely subordinated to the psychology of strategy."
"It doesn't matter what we believe; what matters is that we have faith."
"The basic principle of propaganda is to constantly repeat valid arguments, and lies must be spread again and again and dressed up to be believed."
"The masses have only a partial understanding of abstract ideas, so their reactions are more expressed in the emotional field. Emotional propaganda needs to be freed from the shackles of science and truth. ”
“If you lie, tell a big lie because big lies often have some kind of believable power. Moreover, it is easier for people to choose between big lies and small lies. Become a prisoner of the former. Because the people themselves often tell small lies about small things and are embarrassed to make up big lies, so they think that others cannot brazenly distort the facts... It is extremely absurd. Lies often produce results even after they have been discovered."
"The mass media can only be a tool of the party. Its task is to explain the party's policies and measures to the people and use the party's policies. "Propaganda is the vanguard of an organization, and propaganda is always just a means to achieve an end."
"Propaganda is like falling in love, you can make any empty promises. . ”
“Even if it is a simple lie, once you start telling it, you must tell it to the end.”
“A lie repeated a thousand times becomes the truth.”
"Newspapers are a tool for educating the people, and they must be made to serve the country."
"The speech in newspapers should be consistent with the purpose, and should not be confused by the heresy of freedom of the press."
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“The task of newspapers is to convey the will of the rulers to the ruled, making them regard hell as heaven.”
“Most people are much more ignorant than we think, so The essence of propaganda is simplicity and repetition. ”
“The radio must be designed to listen only to German radio stations.”
About Goebbels
Goebbels was born in a working-class devout Catholic family in the small town of Rheydt (Rheydt, merged with the city of Menchengladbach due to administrative regional adjustment in 1975) in northwestern Germany. Therefore, Goebbels's childhood ambition was to be a priest. His father was a foreman in a textile factory and his mother was the daughter of a blacksmith. When he was 7 years old, he contracted osteomyelitis (also said to be polio), which caused his left leg to be shorter than his right leg and he walked with a slight limp. Therefore, he was exempted from military service during World War I. .
Goebbels had excellent academic performance since childhood, especially in writing and speech. Goebbels attended so many universities that it is rare in the world. He has studied at eight universities including the University of Bonn, the University of Freiburg, the University of Würzburg, the University of Munich, the University of Frankfurt, the University of Berlin and the University of Heidelberg, all of which are famous institutions of higher learning in Germany. He has dabbled in a wide range of knowledge and specialized in He studied philosophy, history, classical philology, literature and art, and mastered Latin and Greek.
When he was only 24 years old, he received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Heidelberg and a doctorate in literature from the University of Bonn. Goebbels always used the title of Doctor (Dr.) when signing his name. He had a strong sense of self as an intellectual.
Goebbels, who walked out of college, was knowledgeable, talented, quick-thinking, and sharp in writing. In June 1922, he heard Hitler's speech at the Crown Circus in Munich, which amazed him: "Now I have found the path I should take - this is an order!" From then on, Goebbels began to believe in Nazism and joined the Nazi Party that year. In October 1926, Hitler appointed him district leader of the Nazi Party in Berlin. In 1929, he was appointed to take charge of the Nazi party's propaganda agency, allowing him to climb to the top of the Nazi leadership. After Hitler came to power in 1933, he was appointed Minister of National Education and Minister of Propaganda.
Goebbels lived up to Hitler's kindness. In order to completely cleanse the "heresy" from the minds of the German people, on the night of May 10, 1935, Goebbels launched a campaign in Berlin. What followed was a nationwide book burning movement. Books deemed "destructive to our future", such as those by Marx, Engels, Luxemburg, Liebknecht, Merling, Heine and Einstein, were burned. Goebbels said to the students who participated in the book burning: "The soul of the German people can be expressed again. This fire not only ends the old era, but also illuminates the new era." Goebbels thus earned the title of "Book Burner" name.
At the same time, Goebbels and his Propaganda Department also implemented strict controls on publishing, newspapers, radio and movies, and eliminated all media that were opposed to the ideas of the Nazi Party. The "Frankfurter Zeitung" The Jewish boss was kicked out of the newspaper office, and the influential Voss Daily was ordered to cease publication. The number of newspapers nationwide was reduced from 3,607 to 2,671 (the first 4 years of Nazi rule). The publication or performance of works must be censored by the Nazi Propaganda Department. and permission. Goebbels paid special attention to broadcasting, founded the National Broadcasting Association, and controlled and monopolized German broadcasting companies. Under the careful manipulation of Goebbels and his Propaganda Department, public opinion throughout Germany was in a crazy fascist cultural and ideological atmosphere.
Goebbels and his Propaganda Department not only firmly controlled the tools of public opinion across the country, but they also personally took action on various occasions to create public opinion in order to fool the German people. In particular, Goebbels's speech was a highly inflammatory and vicious storm, spreading in the air of German society. It should be admitted that Goebbels was still very talented. He seemed to have the talent to turn everything into right and wrong, and this was exactly what Nazi Germany needed. On February 18, 1943, Goebbels delivered the speech "On "Total War"" at the Berlin Stadium. It was a typical example of his fanatical attempts to capture his own people with Nazi ideas and deceive the world public, and to use Nazi politics to supplement military aggression. Version.
On April 29, 1945, Hitler married Eva Braun before committing suicide. Goebbels was one of the witnesses and witnessed the two committing suicide. On April 30, he succeeded Hitler as chancellor in accordance with Hitler's last words and negotiated surrender terms with the Soviet army. However, the Soviet Union demanded unconditional surrender and the negotiations broke down. On May 1 of the same year, Goebbels poisoned his five daughters and one son with potassium cyanide, and then committed suicide with Madame Margotta to die for the party. In addition, there are also claims (such as Traudl Junge) that Goebbels shot and killed his wife and then committed suicide.