Joseph goebbels propaganda techniques

Background: This article comes is the lead from the first issue of the Nazi Party’s central office for propaganda (Reichspropagandaleitung). It lays out Goebbels’s public thinking on propaganda in 1931.

The source: “Wille und Weg,“ Wille und Weg (later Unser Wille und Weg), 1 (1931), pp.

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Will and Way

by Joseph Goebbels

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It is the task of National Socialist theory to construct a program that can hold its own in the daily political struggle. We have worked on this program since the start of the movement.

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Its basics are laid out in the 25 points [the party’s official program, adopted in 1920]. The 25 points provide the foundation of all of National Socialist practice.

The National Socialist movement develops from political practice.

It stems not from a desktop, but rather from real life. That distinguishes it from every other contemporary German political organization.

A good theory is the most practical thing in the world. That has been true for the Nation