دانلود کتاب گوبلز – استاد توهم نازی

Many Germans saw the Nazi movement in its formative stage as a South German movement, lacking sophistication and intellectual depth, a movement that held meetings in beer halls, a movement assembled from a rabble of frustrated men, including veterans who had not adjusted to civilian life a_er their return from the “Great War”. They would sit around pub tables and discuss their problems and the disasters that had overtaken Germany. In gatherings held at the “Ho_räuhaus,” one of the breweries in Munich, Adolf Hitler would deliver energetic, sweeping speeches. In February 1920, he introduced a new movement, National-Socialism, aimed at fighting against those responsible for Germany’s defeat during the war. He referred obviously to Jews, Communists, Democrats, and those who had signed the Treaty of Versailles. Supporters flocked to Hitler’s side, including one of the figures who would later be at the center of the transformation of the nascent Nazi party into a general German movement that appealed to the masses. This was Joseph Goebbels, a young intellectual and a native Rhinelander, a scholar well-versed in philosophy, political theory, history, and literature. “Because what was Nazism until Goebbels in􀂙uenced it?”,1 asked British historian Trevor-Roper, as Goebbels “conquered” Berlin, becoming the Gauleiter (head of the party district) when he was only 29 years old, and granting Berlin its power as the capital of the National-Socialist Reich instead of Munich —the party’s birthplace. Goebbels was the man who planned and arranged the conventions and large parades that drew the German public to the party. He also created the “Führer Myth,” which granted Hitler a divine nature, a ruler assigned from on high, and he saw this as his greatest propaganda achievement. A central question in the historiography of World War II and Holocaust research that has gone unanswered is how the leaders of the Nazi regime managed to sweep so many people up with them? Furthermore, a_er defeats and disasters, bombings, and sacri􀂘ces, how were those same followers dragged into oblivion with their leaders, especially during the last year of the war? That issue stands at the heart of this book. The foundational assumption is that one of these Nazi leaders, Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Dr. Goebbels, caused this. He managed to pull the German masses together to support goals he presented before them, and when they stood at a dramatic turning point during the war, they continued to blindly follow him to their ruin.