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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Prologue
1897–1933: To Advance at Any Price
Chapter 1: “Rings a Song Eternally / From Youth’s Happy Hours”: Goebbels on His Childhood and Youth
Chapter 2: Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child”: Goebbels’s Path to National Socialism
Chapter 3: “Working with the Mind Is the Greatest Sacrifice”: Maneuvering in the Early NSDAP
Chapter 4: “Faith Moves Mountains”: Political Beginnings in Berlin
Chapter 5: “Struggle Is the Father of All Things”: The Gauleiter and the Capital of the Reich
Chapter 6: “A Life Full of Work and Struggle”: Politics Between Berlin and Munich
Chapter 7: “Dare to Live Dangerously!”: Goebbels’s Radicalism and Hitler’s Policy of “Legality”
Chapter 8: “Now We Must Gain Power…One Way or Another!”: A Share of Government?
Chapter 9: “I Have a Blind Faith in Victory”: On the Way to Power
1933–1939: Controlling the Public Sphere Under Dictatorship
Chapter 10: “We’re Here to Stay!”: Taking Power
Chapter 11: “Only Those Who Deserve Victory Will Keep It!”: Consolidating the Regime
Chapter 12: “Whatever the Führer Does, He Does Completely”: The Establishment of the Führer State
Chapter 13: “Taking Firm Control of the Inner Discipline of a People”: Propaganda and Manipulation of the Public Sphere
Chapter 14: “Never Tire!”: Foreign Policy Successes and Anti-Jewish Policies
Chapter 15: “The Tougher the Better!”: The Olympic Year, 1936
Chapter 16: “The Most Important Factors in Our Modern Cultural Life”: Consolidating Nazi Cultural Policies
Chapter 17: “Don’t Look Around, Keep Marching On!”: The Firebrand as Peacemaker
Chapter 18: “Maturity Is Only Achieved Through Suffering!”: Preparations for War—from the Munich Agreement to the Attack on Poland
1939–1945: War—Total War—Total Defeat
Chapter 19: “War Is the Father of All Things”: The First Months of the War
Chapter 20: “There Is Only One Sin: Cowardice!”: The Expansion of the War
Chapter 21: “Our Banners Lead Us On to Victory!”: Between the War in the West and the War in the East
Chapter 22: “A Great, a Wonderful Time, in Which a New Reich Will Be Born”: The Attack on the Soviet Union
Chapter 23: “Getting the Nation to Accept Tough Policies”: The Winter Crisis of 1941–42
Chapter 24: “We Can See in Our Mind’s Eye a Happy People”: Offensives and Setbacks
Chapter 25: “Do You Want Total War?”: The Second Winter Crisis
Chapter 26: “The Masses Have Become Somewhat Skeptical or…Are in the Grip of a Permanent State of Hopelessness”: Crisis as a Permanent State
Chapter 27: “I Have No Idea What the Führer’s Going to Do in the End”: The Search for a Way Out
Chapter 28: “Virtually a Wartime Dictatorship on the Home Front”: Between an Apocalyptic Mood and Total War
Chapter 29: “But When Will There Be Some Action?”: Downfall
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Sources
Bibliography
Notes
Credits
Other Titles
About the Author
About the Translators
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