Dr. Goebbels Speaks
A controversy has been stirred up, 60 years after the end of the war, over how Nazis should be depicted. Should they merely be treated as objects of historical enquiry, or is it legitimate to want to enter into their minds?
In the new film Downfall, Bruno Ganz has put on a military overcoat, moustache and hat in order to perform Hitler. The makers of Dr. Goebbels Speaks employ a different strategy.
They have scoured Goebbels’ diaries (found in a Russian archive in 1992, with 20-odd volumes now published) and assembled every scrap of archive film in which Goebbels appeared. Words and pictures come together via the voice of Kenneth Branagh.
The result is both a study in Goebbels’ pathological character, and an extraordinary insight into the nature of propaganda. On this first count, one should merely observe that Goebbels is every bit as vile as you might think. But he did have a warped genius, and his message about how easy it is to lie and be believed (“The bigger the lie, indeed the easier”) has regrettably not lost its relevance. A shocking, engrossing film. (Excerpt from bbc.co.uk)
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I enjpyed this and the way it was produced and presented.There isn`t enough out there about Dr Jo,so this was great
Interestingly, I just saw a news story about the supposed remains of Hitler, and MJ was quoted as saying that Hitler was a “genius” when it came to propaganda. This movie could definitely be an interesting watch.
Very interesting, the entire current American model is based on this.
unbeleivable the parallels between the Nazi party’s use of propaganda and our own highly media driven culture, it is truly frightening, even down to the way we justify war. If anything we live with far more pervasive and coercive forms of propaganda Dr. Goebbels could only dream of the power the Media moguls have wielded in the last three decades.
You should do a little more research. The poisen dwarf, as president Von Hindenburg called him, got many of his ideas from here in the good old USA. Goebbles was quite the admirer and student of the Woodrow Wilson administration and their propaganda machine.
boooring