Two Extraordinary Leaders of 1938-1945 Germany and how They Used Propaganda to Rule World War Two

There are revolutions, Putsches, uprisings. But each of these methods requires a political group to win the sympathies of the broad masses, if it wishes over the long run to maintain is power. But the sympathy of the people does not come of itself; it must be won.
<Tab/>The means of gaining that support is propaganda. The task of propaganda is not to discover a theory or to develop a program, rather to translate that theory and program into the language of the people, to make them comprehensible to the broad masses of the people. The goal of propaganda is to make what the theorists have discovered clear to the broad masses." -Joseph Goebbels
<Tab/>Joseph Goebbels was appointed Germany's Head Propaganda Minister in WWII. The Mein Kampf series was a subtle way of using propaganda. It was a way to show the public what struggles Hitler and his army is going through to satisfy the Germans. Joesph was with Hitler to the very end of his supreme reign. On April 30, 1945, Joseph Goebbels and Martin Bormann waited outside of a room in Hitler's dark Berlin bunker. They heard one gunshot. Then silence. Waiting a few minutes, they hesitantly approached the room and saw Hitler's bloodstained body sprawled on a couch. Near him was his newly wedded bride Eva Braun, who swallowed a vial of poison. Goebbels and Bormann had Hitler's body carried outside and burned amid the hail of shells from the advancing Red Army. One of the last of his last acts, Goebbels notified Grand Admiral Doenitz that he had succeeded Hitler as "Der Fuhrer".
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