Category: The West Wing

The Oxford Dictionary defines propaganda as:

            prop·a·gan·da / ˌpräpəˈgandə/ • n. 1.chiefly derog. information, esp. of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view: he was charged with distributing enemy propaganda. ∎  the dissemination of such information as a political strategy:

Hardly news to anyone but probably the most brazen display of propaganda was done by one Adolf Hitler to establish a ministry in its name in 1933 Nazi Germany.

When the Nazis took power the Propaganda Ministry was established almost immediately. It was charged with enforcing Nazi doctrine on the people and controlling public opinion. However, the Ministry became even more important after the outbreak of war.

 

During the Fuhruer’s reign Joseph Goebbels stage managed the Reich’s Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. Funny how Germans accepted this, I suppose they really had no choice in the matter and the Fuhruer by namimg it as such let the people know what his intentions were.