Friday, March 16, 1979 25 THE 'DETROIT JEWISH NEWS. Goebbels and.Propaganda War Recalled Highest dollars paid for your diamonds, gold, or antique jewelry!!! CALL FOR APPOINTMENT 851-7333 Lisc. by State of Mich. NEW YORK — On April 29, 1945, Joseph Goebbels had his six children put to death. Two days later, Hit- ler's Minister of Enlightenment, the mas- termind of the most bril- liant and diabolical prop- aganda campaign in his- tory, took his own life. The "whore" of history had be- trayed the German people, he said, "nothing can save us." Yet his last two official acts were to shower Berlin with morale boosting leaf- lets and to exhort the city's last defenders saying, "The hour before the dawn is al- ways the darkest." Photogra by 4%*k‘sttclv‘O. —?' gary P. 71Iffer Ptionp 398-0194 Specializing In I Portraits & Sound Movies EVERY SAT. AT 2:30 P.M. Cong. Shomrey Emunah "The War That Hitler Won" by Robert Edwin Herzstein (Putnam's) de- tailed history of Goebbel's mesmerization of the Ger- man people. To the very end his world was composed of deceit and rhetpric, poetry and demagoguery, bombast and violence. With these tools he coolly manipulated the thoughts and feelings of an entire nation. They were the weapons in the war that Hitler won. The ultimate Nazi, Joseph Goebbels combined intense idealism with ex- traordinary cynicism, bit- terness and sadism. Intel- lectually pretentious, he loved the rhetoric of Ger- man heroism, while having nothing but contempt for the German masses. "The rank and file are usually much more primitive than we im- agine," he wrote. "Prop- aganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious." In "The War That Hitler Won," Robert Edwin Herzs- Paul Silver, 73 tein shows how the "little doctor" methodically and scientifically used every means of propaganda — fea- ture films and documen- taries, the famous "German Weekly Newsreel," radio, books, posters, newspapers, placards, window displays, leaflets, gossip, speeches, even postage stamps — to shape and control how Germans saw themselves and the outside world. Every medium exhorted Germans to fight, suffer, and perish for the Fuehrer. Churchill was a "whiskey guzzler," Russia the site of "Jewish Bolshevik Sub- Humanity," English history a perfidy dominated by Jewish villains. For years his success was phenomenal and even de- feat could be twisted for his purposes. As victory became more elusive, his prop- aganda celebrated heroic death — "national immor- tality." But in the final months of the war, as the "primitive rank and file" began to turn away from the Media barrage, it was the cynical, desperate Goebbels who finally came to believe in his own propaganda, in the end fulfilling its inevit- able promise: victory only in death. The author, Robert Herzstein, is associate pro- fessor of modern - history at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. He is the author of "Adolph Hitler and the Third Reich," "Adolph Hitler and "The German Trauma 1913- 1945." The program includes a special activity one Sunday per month. If you live in our area and want to walk over Please Join Us for your party By SAM FIELD Call 399-1320 PASSOVER May We Help You MARVIN SIEGEL CATERERS CARRY OUT FOODS COMPLETE DINNERS and A LA CARTE PLACE YOUR ORDERS EARLY!! Austere Egypt CAIRO (ZINS) — President Anwar Sadat has begun a government auster- ity program in Egypt. One of the measures is for offi- cials to use Volkswagen cars rather than luxury automobiles. 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Mr. Silver was a part- time lecturer on labor re- lations at Oakland Uni- versity, a member of the Michigan State Demo- cratic Party and a direc- tor of the National .Com- mittee for Labor Israel. Memorial Service for Hersz G. (Tzvi) Tomkiewtcz Thursday, March 22, 1979 at 8:30 p.m. to be held at Young Israel of Oak Woods 24061 Coolidge, Oak Park He leaves his wife, Molly; a son, Dr. Simon of Clayton, Mo.. a daughter, Masha; a brother, Dr. David I.; two ' sisters, Mrs. Herman (Ceal) Zimmerman of Lauderdale Lakes, Fla., and Mrs. Bar- ney (Min) Ross of Lauderhill, Fla.; and two grandsons. All are cordially invited to attend Sponsored by: UJA Appointee Mizrachi, Bnai Akiva, Bar Ilan University, Akiva Hebrew Day School, Jewish National Fund, Israel Bonds and Metropolitan Council of Young Israel NEW YORK — Gordon Zacks of Columbus, Ohio has been appointed a na- tional vice chairman of the United Jewish Appeal. 2 4 • .9 w 1,4 . 111 .. .1. . 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