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I know this isn’t the point, but did Goebbels write? This is the literature prize, not the peace prize.
He was an absolute master of propaganda. The best / worst we've ever seen to the best of my knowledge. Evil genius doesn't even scratch the surface.
All the way through the 1920's and 30's he masterfully moved public opinion in Germany, shutting down the free press, hosting the Olympics while convincing the West that Germany just wanted peace, nudging the populous towards war, the works.
Edit: thankfully for us all he recorded it in diaries that survived. He was a true believer. Hitler would never have achieved what he did without Goebbels. Others played pivotal roles but fuck me that pair were something.
I know little of it, but thought Speer was the designer of propaganda. The eagle and such.
He was inner circle but wasn't nearly as public facing until half way through the war then did a massive and very successful rationalisation on their war machine that was too late. The allies were massively out producing them by then and there was no catching up. Not sure how much design work he did though.
Goebbels was the public mouthpiece from the offset.
Propaganda, yeah, it was kind of his thing