A. Kallis 
Nazi Propaganda and the Second World War 

This book analyzes the factors that determined the organization, conduct and output of Nazi propaganda during World War II, in an attempt to re-assess previously inflated perceptions about the influence of Nazi propaganda and the role of the regime’s propagandists in the outcome of the 1939-45 military conflict.

Table of Content

Introduction Propaganda, ‘Co-ordination’ and ‘Centralisation’: The Goebbels Network in Search of a Total Empire ‘Polyocracy’ versus ‘Centralisation’: The Multiple ‘Networks’ of NS Propaganda The Discourses of NS Propaganda: Long-term Employment and Short-term Justification From ‘Short Campaign’ to ‘Gigantic Confrontation’: NS Propaganda and the Justification of War, 1939-1941 From Triumph to Disaster: NS Propaganda from the Launch of ‘Barbarossa’ until Stalingrad National Socialist Propaganda and the Loss of the Monopoly of Truth (1943-44) The Winding Road To Defeat: The Propaganda Of Diversion And Negative Integration Cinema and Totalitarian Propaganda: ‘Information’ and ‘Leisure’ in National Socialist Germany, 1939-45 Conclusions: Legitimising the Impossible? Bibliography

About the author

ARISTOTLE A. KALLIS is Lecturer in European Studies at Lancaster University, UK, and researches in interwar European fascism with a particular focus on the German and Italian cases. He is the author of
Fascist Ideology: Territory and Expansionism in Italy and Germany 1922-1945 (Routledge 2000) and editor of
The Fascism Reader (Routledge 2004).