Daniela Ozacky Stern - Goebbels: Nazi Master of Illusion

Goebbels: Nazi Master of Illusion

Daniela Ozacky Stern

Published by Daniela Ozacky Stern, 2022.

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GOEBBELS: NAZI MASTER OF ILLUSION

First edition. February 28, 2022.

Copyright 2022 Daniela Ozacky Stern.

ISBN: 978-9655999020

Written by Daniela Ozacky Stern.

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The book is fascinating and innovativeI read it eagerly in one breath.

Yitzchak Herzog, President of Israel

In-depth researchdescribing the power of the most fanatical, monstrous, and massive anti-semitic propaganda the world has ever known. A must read.

Maya Gorodecky, Refusenik

It provides a lot of answerseven to those who experienced the horror in the flesh.

Abraham Vered, Survivor of Auschwitz

Hopefully it will be read by those who do not yet understand the power of words.

Reuven Miran, Author and Publisher

The author describes the dark figure and the distorted personality of Joseph Goebbels, an agitator with oral rhetorical ability.

Prof. Arie Naor

I was extremely impressed and overwhelmed of the depth of research. Its written in a way that allures the reader.

Eliyahu Yakir, Holocaust Survivor from Poland

An amazing study of the most influential figure in Nazi Germany. A masterpiece worthy of praise.

Yossi Ahimeir, Journalist and Publisher

Copyright 2022 by Daniela Ozacky Stern

Lazar Institute for the Research of WWII and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv

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First paperback edition in English 2022

Cover design by Rob Allen (n23art)
Book design by Allan Ytac

Cover photos by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yad Vashem Photos Archive

Library of Congress Control Number: 2022902362
ISBN 978-965-599-901-3 (paperback)
ISBN 978-965-599-902-0 (ebook)

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Table of Contents

Preface

M any 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 after 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 Hofbruhaus, 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 Germanys defeat during the war. He referred obviously to Jews, Communists, Democrats, and those who had signed the Treaty of Versailles.

Supporters flocked to Hitlers 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 influenced it?, 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 partys birthplace.