The Reich established an official ministry to engineer state propaganda in 1933

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. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 411

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  • XREF: connects to: Nazi Germany institutionalized state attention capture through a propaganda ministry — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 411; Britain pioneered state-controlled broadcast propaganda before Nazi Germany did. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 414; Germans decentralized broadcasting and funded it by license fees to prevent propaganda control — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 428

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