The Goebbels Experiment: A Study of the Nazi Propaganda Machine

 Derrick Sington; Arthur Weidenfeld

Yale University Press, 1943

[A Contemporary Analysis of the Effects of Nazi Propaganda] Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket with minor loss. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Markings on front end page, else unmarked. xi, 274 p., 24 cm.  Includes related ephemera.  A narrative of Hitler's minister of propaganda and analysis of the effects on the German people and reactions abroad.  Sington and Weidenfeld "relied largely upon broadcasts by the German radio during the war, upon the German press from 1933 to 1942, and on German publications of many kinds which have reached England up to June, 1942."  Includes a contemporary (reprint) of the New York Times' book review from June 27, 1943.  "Goebbels's strength was merely our own weakness.  He performed the rope trick because we had closed our eyes.  Once we have opened them, even the most competent inventory of the the poor devil's charms will look pathetic."    

Contents: The National Socialist Party, 1918-1932 --The party propaganda department --The party press --The propaganda ministry --The reich chamber of culture --The controlled press --Broadcasting the third reich --Propaganda and the armed forces --The cinema in the third reich --The controlled theatre --Literature and propaganda --The fine arts as propaganda --Music as propaganda.