No one in history shaped how the German people perceived the Nazi ideology and the goverance of the third Reich like Joseph Goebbels.

Samuel Udo
1 min readJul 8, 2023

One of his first major act as Minister of Propaganda was the massive repression of German Art and Culture:
Writers and Artists who were considered "anti-German" in their works and actions were silenced, with their projects destroyed or suppressed.

Next, were the mass book burnings:
On the 10th of May 1933, at the rise of Nazi Power, German Students in Berlin oversaw the burning of over 25,000 books, which were deemed to instill moral corruption.

These books included works by Karl Marx, Erich Maria Remarque (Author of 'All quiet on the Western Front'), Albert Einstein, and Sigmund Freud.

To celebrate that night, Goebbels declared the era of Jewish intellectualism had ended in Germany.

The hallmark of these events showed how much Goebbels had drifted from his previous life:
A PhD holder and aspiring writer of 1921, now ushering in the dark ages of antisemitic Nazism.

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Samuel Udo

Physician, hanging unto Life and its meaning by the Threads, and finding peace with daily journaling.