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Author Bytwerk, Randall L., author.

Title Bending spines : the propagandas of Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic / Randall L. Bytwerk
Published East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 228 pages)
Series Rhetoric and public affairs series
Rhetoric and public affairs series.
Contents Secular faiths -- Doctrines -- Hierarchies -- Evangelists -- Maps of reality -- Arts and entertainment -- Public and private life -- The failure of propaganda
Summary Why do totalitarian propaganda such as those created in Nazi Germany and the former German Democratic Republic initially succeed, and why do they ultimately fail? Outside observers often make two serious mistakes when they interpret the propaganda of this time. First, they assume the propaganda worked largely because they were supported by a police state, that people cheered Hitler and Honecker because they feared the consequences of not doing so. Second, they assume that propaganda really succeeded in persuading most of the citizenry that the Nuremberg rallies were a reflection of how most G
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-221) and index
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Subject Propaganda -- Germany -- History
Nazi propaganda.
Propaganda, Communist -- Germany (East) -- History
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
Nazi propaganda.
Propaganda.
Propaganda, Communist.
Propaganda
Propaganda.
Derde Rijk.
Germany.
Germany (East)
Deutschland DDR
Deutschland
Deutschland.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780870138997
0870138995