Nazi Germany institutionalized state attention capture through a propaganda ministry
Evidence
It was in 1933, soon after his appointment as chancellor of Germany, that Hitler began to engineer the institutions for his conquest of German minds through the new Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, run by his loyal lieutenant Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, then just thirty-six years old. Goebbels, if anything, would exceed Hitler in understanding how to capture attention on a mass scale and what to do with it. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 411
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Nazi rule operated through bureaucratic authority extended to state and group organizations — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 975; Nazi radio infrastructure let one man dominate the minds of an entire nation — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 383; The Third Reich remains unmatched in broadcast reach and coercion power — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 384 (+9 more)
Broader Connections
- Nazi propaganda distinguished public and internal speech with deliberate intent
#expands(0.88) - The Reich established an official ministry to engineer state propaganda in 1933
#expands(0.85) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 411 - Nazi propaganda perfected American advertising and journalism techniques
#expands(0.80) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 416 - Britain pioneered state-controlled broadcast propaganda before Nazi Germany did.
#qualifies(0.74) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 414 - Stalin scaled up Soviet propaganda after learning from Nazi pervasiveness
#exemplifies(0.74) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 427 - Three divergent postwar media systems grew from the Nazi propaganda example
#qualifies(0.72) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 426 - Germans decentralized broadcasting and funded it by license fees to prevent propaganda control
#contradicts(0.72) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 428