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  • The triumphalism of the propaganda films produced by Goebbels's ministry gives way to particularly horrific scenes of death-camp corpses, and seemingly endless vistas of a Berlin reduced to rubble by Allied bombing.

    'Pariah' Stands Apart—As Fresh Teen Tale Joe Morgenstern 2012

  • And Geismar surely knew the Anglo-American journalist John Russell—hero of David Downing's four Berlin novels—in the prewar years and shared a drink with him at the Foreign Press Club, where they could safely join in mockery of Joseph Goebbels's press conferences.

    In the World of Night and Fog Allan Massie 2011

  • Fallada's decision to stay in Germany did, of course, entail compromises, including altering the end of Iron Gustav in 1938 at Goebbels's behest.

    Letters: Alone under a dictatorship 2011

  • Even German broadcasting was split up into regional sectors to prevent a centralized message machine from rising out of the ashes of Goebbels's propaganda monster.

    Misplaced Fears 2009

  • Goebbels's deeply rooted contempt for humanity, his urge to sow confusion, hatred and intoxication, his lust for power and his mastery of the techniques of mass persuasion were given full vent in the election campaigns of 1932, when he played a crucial role in bringing Hitler to the centre of the political stage.

    Candidate For RNC Chair Sends Out CD With Song Called "Barack, The Magic Negro" 2009

  • But in less polished moments, Haider's vocabulary might as well be drawn from Goebbels's dictionary.

    Europe's New Right 2008

  • As the film is running, Nazi Brownshirts--brought to the theater under Goebbels's direction--jump up and begin shouting Jews out!

    Daimnation!: "Stop" 2008

  • While it's entirely Third Reichian and White House of Horrors creepy, it is no surprise that this president brought in his little Goebbels's to spread his certitude and propaganda.

    A NANOSECOND THAT'S LASTED NEARLY SIX YEARS...President Bush's Cheapening of Human Loss Is Terrifying 2006

  • He remembered Goebbels's call for the nationwide boycott of Jewish stores in April of

    Garden of Beasts Deaver, Jeffery 2004

  • It looked as pockmarked and as blemished as the mountains of the moon seen through a cheap telescope, and the colonel thought it looked like Goebbels's face if Herr Goebbels had ever been in a plane that burned and not been able to bail out before the fire reached him.

    Sinclair Lewis: Rebel From Mainstreet 2002

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