Goebbels on Radio (1. Background: The Nazis were convinced of the power of. In this speech given on 1. August 1. 93. 3, Goebbels. German radio would take. As Goebbels. notes, a cheap radio receiver, the Volksempf. Joseph Goebbels. (Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP., 1. The Radio as the Eight. Great Power. by Joseph Goebbels. My fellow people’s comrades! Lost Horizon, by James Hilton, free ebook. It was typical of Conway that he let the others waken for themselves, and made small response to their.John Keats, who died at the age of twenty-five, had perhaps the most remarkable career of any English poet. He published only fifty-four poems, in three slim volumes. Napoleon spoke of the “press as the seventh great power.” Its. French. Revolution, and maintained its position for the entirety of the 1. One can hardly. imagine or explain the major historical events between 1.
The radio will be for the twentieth century what the press was for the. With the appropriate change, one can apply Napoleon’s. Its. discovery and application are of truly revolutionary significance for. Future generations may conclude that the. Reformation. The November Regime . Even those who claimed to. At best, they saw it as an easy way to distract the masses. Only reluctantly did they think of using. As in all other things, they viewed. They left. the radio and its development to its technical and administrative. It goes without saying that the National Socialist revolution. The old regime was content simply to fill empty. We on the other hand intend a principled. This process, which has been visible to the layman in the. It was systematically. We have used our power in the last six. We spent the period. January in winning power, having then the same goals. It would not have been possible for us to take power or to. It therefore does not need. To the contrary, it is. That means a series of important reforms in the organization. On the one hand, these reforms will. They will also mean. As in all other areas, the changes are primarily spiritual. The radio must be brought out of the stubborn emptiness. It is not possible for the radio to ignore the times. A radio that does not. It will soon become an empty playground. We live in the. age of the masses; the masses rightly demand that they participate. The radio is the most influential. That requires a clearly expressed direction. I have spoken. of this often with regards to various areas of our spiritual. There can be no lack of direction, either with people or. The moral value or lack thereof depends not on words. The direction and the goal always determine whether. A government that has determined to bring a nation together so that it. That is also. true for the radio. The more significant something is in influencing the. That does not mean we want to turn the radio into a spineless. The new German politics. It seeks the totality of the. Within the framework. Just. as its technical methods are modern and distinct, so too are. It is only distantly related to the. It is rarely possible to bring a powerful stage. There is a. style of speaking on the radio, a style of drama, of opera, of. The radio is in no way a branch of the stage or film. It faces particular demands to be contemporary. It works with. the tasks and needs of the day. Its duty is to give immediate. Its actuality is both its greatest danger. It gave impressive evidence on 2. March and 1 May of its ability to reach the people with great. The first event acquainted the entire nation. Both reached the entire nation, regardless of class. That was primarily the result of the tight. German radio. Being up- to- date brings one close to the people. We call our. revolution a popular one for good reason. It came from the depths. It was carried out by the people, and done for. It dethroned absolute individualism and put the people. It broke with the weary skepticism. The problems that we in the government face today are the. The problems we. treat over the ether in plays, speeches, addresses and dramas. The better the. radio recognizes them and treats them in fresh and varied ways. Before we reach this ideal situation in our radio policies. Probably as a result of the. This. disease of the age infected radio stations as well. Here too. one organized not what had to be organized, but whatever could. A hundred cooks spoil the soup, a hundred bureaucrats. The more committees, review. German radio system, the less its political accomplishments. The spiritual energy, the flexibility. They only. get in the way. Here, too, faster than is generally believed. Excessive organization can only get in the way of productivity. Excessive. organization is always the beginning of corruption. It confuses. responsibility and thus enables those of weak character to enrich. That is what formerly happened in the German radio system. There were. huge salaries that lacked any justification given what was accomplished. There are some today who claim to. One can only say to them that. They only knew how to exploit it for their own. It would surely be good for those who really built the German. As the saying has it: “Tell. I’ll tell you who you are.”I need not say that the government of the National Socialist revolution. We will eliminate. Spartan. simplicity and economy. We will also systematically increase productivity. We will bring to the microphone the best spiritual elements. We do not intend to use the radio only for our partisan purposes. But everything should have a relationship to our day. Above all it is necessary. We want a radio that reaches the people, a radio that works for the. The money produced. If the stage and publishing suffer from the. One. of my main tasks in the near and more distant future will be to keep. I am convinced that the radio as. With the opening of this exhibition, a systematic campaign to advertise. We will use the knowledge of propaganda. Our goal is to double German radio listenership. We will strengthen the stage, film, music. This year’s radio exhibition opens in this spirit. Its keynote. is the People’s Receiver . Its low price will enable the broad masses. Science and industry have done what. May the radio leadership now do its part. Then we will. together accomplish our goal. If science, industry and intellectual. German radio. It will open new paths. Germany’s political life, but for the work of radio. This exhibition stands in the shadow of this great task. It. is a start, a beginning, an expression of German courage and. German confidence. It is our dearest wish that science, industry and the intellectual. German radio from now on will follow a new path. One People, one Reich, one will, and a glorious German future! In this sense I declare the 1. German Radio Exhibition open. My e- mail address is available on the FAQ.
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