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...beginning it had been a different story. Then the Führer graciously opened German ranks for non-German volunteers who wanted to help in the mass extermination of Communism. Gaunt, gimpy little Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels cunningly stressed racial and religious differences to realize the Führer's vision of allied legions swarming from Europe's four corners...
...German youth that has been imbued with arrogant feelings of racial and mental superiority, that has been brought up in hatred for everything non-German, that has been trained for the domination or destruction of everything outside of Germany, how can such a generation ever fit into a democratic world...
Biggest of Joseph Goebbels' seven departments is Counter-Action, where "the separate threats of propaganda and espionage are knit together." By 1937 it controlled some 330 German-language newspapers in non-German countries; good reporters can also be good spies. The Department also made notable use of movie companies: one filmed Robinson Crusoe (never released) on a strategic island off South America; another made a huge documentary (never released) of Poland, in 1938. Artists were useful, too, from a great Wagnerian soprano down to second-grade cabaret girls. And servant girls-between 1933 and 1939 some...
...Nazi Book News of April 1939 grumbled: "a plethora of translations," "a flood of historical novels, more than 100 in 1938, many of them 1) bad, 2) unnecessary, 3) irrelevant, 4) mediocre, 5) 'more or less average." He found too "an extraordinary number of books" in which non-German personalities were stressed, Roman Generals, Russian composers, French painters. Other shortcomings : "No new peasant novels, soldier novels, glorification-of-the-Führer novels, sport novels, strength-through-joy novels, no conquest-of-unemployment novels, no good race, blood and soil novels, no go jd poetry." Long ago, Hitler told...
Hitler will push on into the Balkans, Professor Langer believes, although he will not take them into his pan-German empire. His present aim is to reunite Bohemia with the other Germans, and then to extend Nazi control over non-German elements...