Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 contents provided by Syndetics

• List of Abbreviations (p. viii)
• Acknowledgements (p. x)
• Introduction: 'Totalitarianism', Propaganda, War and the Third Reich (p. 1)
• Propaganda, propagandist and the audience (p. 1)
• Effective propaganda and the limits of NS 'totalitarianism' (p. 6)
• Main premises (p. 12)
• Structure and foci of the book (p. 13)
• 1 Propaganda, 'Co-ordination' and 'Centralisation': The Goebbels Network in Search of a Total Empire (p. 16)
• Cinema (p. 19)
• Press (p. 26)
• Broadcasting (p. 31)
• 2 'Polyocracy' versus 'Centralisation': The Multiple 'Networks' of NS Propaganda (p. 40)
• Polyocracy and 'charismatic' power in the NS regime (p. 40)
• The role of Goebbels in NS propaganda: power-base and limits (p. 43)
• The 'Dietrich network' (p. 47)
• The 'Ribbentrop' network (p. 49)
• The case of Alfred Rosenberg (p. 51)
• The rise of Martin Bormann (p. 53)
• The 'OKW network' (p. 56)
• Himmler and Speer (p. 58)
• The 'Goebbels network' strikes back: 1943-45 (p. 59)
• 3 The Discourses of NS Propaganda: Long-Term Emplotment and Short-Term Justification (p. 63)
• NS propaganda and long-term positive integration (p. 65)
• Negative integration: the (powerful) common denominator (p. 70)
• The early common denominator: 'plutocrats' and 'the Jew' (p. 71)
• Anti-Bolshevism (p. 76)
• The construction of a negative megan-narrative: the 'Jewish-Bolshevik-plutocratic alliance' (p. 83)
• 4 From 'Short Campaign' to 'Gigantic Confrontation': NS Propaganda and the Justification of War, 1939-41 (p. 93)
• Justifying 'war', 1939 (p. 93)
• From plan to invasion: the campaign against Poland and the first 'triumph' (p. 98)
• The campaign against the west: the second 'triumph' (p. 100)
• NS policy (and propaganda) at crossroads: Britain or Russia? (p. 104)
• Towards the attack on the Soviet Union ('Barbarossa') (p. 106)
• 5 From Triumph to Disaster: NS Propaganda from the Launch of 'Barbarossa' until Stalingrad (p. 111)
• The first stage of 'Barbarossa' (1941) (p. 111)
• The first adversities: Pearl Harbour, 'General Winter' and the extension of the war (p. 117)
• The 'year of decision': 1942 (p. 121)
• The turning point: Stalingrad (September 1942-January 1943) (p. 125)
• 6 NS Propaganda and the Loss of the Monopoly of Truth (1943-44) (p. 130)
• The Stalingrad aftermath: NS propaganda and 'public opinion' (p. 130)
• Bouncing back after Stalingrad: 'Total war' and 'fear' (p. 133)
• The subversion of the regime's monopoly of truth (p. 137)
• The 'Hitler-cult': staying power and disintegration (p. 145)
• The withdrawal of Hitler - a new role for Goebbels? (p. 148)
• 7 The Winding Road to Defeat: The Propaganda of Diversion and Negative Integration (p. 153)
• NS propaganda from consensus to negative integration (p. 153)
• In search for 'victory' (p. 154)
• Allied 'terror attacks' and 'retaliation' (Vergeltung) (p. 160)
• The eastern front: defeat, 'shortening' and 'planned evacuation' (p. 168)
• Diverting attention from the east and the west (p. 173)
• Preparing for the final showdown (p. 178)
• 8 Cinema and Totalitarian Propaganda: 'Information' and 'Leisure' in NS Germany, 1939-45 (p. 185)
• The Wochenschau (newsreel) (p. 188)
• Documentary as reality (p. 194)
• The historical film as contemporary narrative (p. 198)
• Commercial and politically valuable? The 'entertainment film' and NS propaganda (p. 207)
• Managing German cinema, 1939-45 (p. 213)
• Conclusions: Legitimising the Impossible? (p. 218)
• Notes (p. 224)
• Bibliography (p. 266)
• Index (p. 284)