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assistant),then Adjutant.33 Much the same on Nov 8: ‘If our opponents afforded us the parliamentary means to getrid of them, that was their affair. But that’s no reason for us to make the same mistake.’Frankfurter Zeitung, No.804, Nov 10, 1933.34 Reichsverband der deutschen Presse; for some if its records under the RMVP, see NAmicrofilms T-70, rolls 127–133. See CSDIC(WEA) BAOR report PIR.8, Otto Dietrich, Sep9, 1945 (NA file RG.219, XE.003812). For some recordsGOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH 31935 Diary, Aug 14; ten days later Hitler authorised a bill on the Chamber of Culture (ibid.,Aug 25, 1933). See the interrogation of Alfred Frauenfeld and Hans Hinkel on theReichskulturkammer, SAIC/27, May 27, 1945 (NA: RG.165, entry 79, box 756).36 JG to Lammers, Jul 13, 1933 (BA file R.43II/1244).37 ‘Basic thoughts on the establishment of a Reich Chamber of Culture,’ Jul 1933 (BA fileR.43II/1241).38 Diary, Aug 25, 1933.39 Reichspressekammer. See e.g. War Dept. Historical Branch (Lt Col Oron J Hale) interrogationof Amann, Aug 22, 1945 (NA: RG.332, entry Mis-Y Sect. box 116); and Dietrich,op. cit.40 Diary, Jul 24, 1933: ‘An odd feeling—to sit in front of this great musician.’41 Reichskammer der bildenden Künste. On which see the 51pp CSDIC(UK) documentPW paper 50 by Erich Mai, a leading member under Dec 1943 (PRO file WO.208/4174).42 Reichsrundfunkkammer. See OSS R&A report No.2100, ‘News Distribution System ofGermany,’ Apr 25, 1944 (USAMHI, Carlisle, Pennsylvania: Donovan papers, box 35c).43 Membership of a Chamber was restricted to pure Aryans, ‘second-grade half-Jews,’ andAryans married to ‘first-grade half-Jews.’ For the questionnaire used by the chamber ofmusic, with elaborate questions on candidates’ racial origins, see Yivo Inst. file G-54; similarlyfor the film chamber, file G-55.44 Dated Jul 1936. USFET report DE.496/DIS.202 (Hoover Libr., Lerner papers).45 Rede des Reichsministers Dr Goebbels bei der Eröffnung der Reichskulturkammer am 15. November1933 (Frankfurt, 1933).46 Dodd to FDR, Nov 27, 1933 (FDR Libr., PSFD box 45, Germany, Dodd); cf AmbassadorDodd’s Diary (New York, 1941) 90f.47 Dr H E Schmidt-Leonhardt, Das Schriftleitergesetz vom 4. Oktober 1933 mit den einschlägigenBestimmungen, erläutert von Dr. H Schmidt-Leonhardt und Dr P Gast (Berlin, 1944); and theCSDIC(WEA) BAOR interrogation of Otto Dietrich (loc.cit.)—For the preparation of thepress law and its implementation see the papers of Prof. Alfred Herrmann (BA files KL.Erw.368/13–14).48 See among other sources CSDIC(UK) PW paper 8, compiled by four prisoners oflimited (local press) horizon, but very illuminating on the RMVP control of editors (PROfile WO.208/4174); and the interrogation of Werner Stephan, Dietrich’s P.A., Oct 29, 1947(NA: RG.260, OMGUS fioles, 53-3/7, box 15).49 Fromm diary, Nov 25, 1933 (Fromm papers, box 1).50 Diary Mar 29, May 7, 1933.51 Jahrbuch der Reichsfilmkammer (Berlin, 1937), 194; Hinkel interrogation, SAIC/29, May28, 1945 (NA: RG.165, entry 79, box 756).52 When interviewed by the author on Jul 14, 1993; and before that in a TV interview forWestdeutscher Rundfunk in May 1991.53 US Seventh Army interrogation PWB/SAIC/3 of Riefenstahl, May 30, 1945 (NA:RG.332, ETO Mis-Y Sect., box 116).54 Leni Riefenstahl, Memoiren (Munich, 1987) 181; JG diary, Dec 1, 1929 (he went withErika Chulius).320 GOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH55 Diary, Nov 8, 1932; under interrogation (see above), perhaps naturally, she stated thather first meeting with Hitler was after he came to power, which might be what JG refers to(diary) on Jun 14, 1933: she had been to see Hitler, and ‘will now start work on her film.’56 Riefenstahl, 186ff, and interview with this author, Jul 15, 1989. The only related diaryentry is on Dec 11, 1932, when General Italo Balbo is entertained an Hermann Göring’s andboth Magda and Leni flirt madly with the dashing Italian aviator.57 There is no reference to a visit to Riefenstahl in the Christmas Eve diary, which showsJG with Harald or visiting Magda at the clinic. She ventilated none of these allegations to herAmerican interrogators in 1945.58 Riefenstahl, 199f.59 Diary, May 17, 26, 1933.60 Riefenstahl, 201.61 Diary, Jun 12, 1933.62 Ibid., Jun 16, 20, Jul 4, 9, 18, Aug 14, 16–17, 1933.63 Riefenstahl, 202ff.64 So she told Hans Otto Meissner (interview with the author, Apr 22, 1990).65 Borresholm.66 Diary, Jul 22; NYT, Jul 20, 25; Fromm diary, Apr 11, 1933.67 NYT, Sep 15, 1933. JG called the photo an affront to the ‘sacred seriousness’ of the SAuniform for which three hundred had died.68 Borresholm, 99f; JG diary, Jul 26; and see Aug 5, 1933.69 Diary, Aug 15, 1933.70 Auguste Behrend, No.20, May 17, 1952; his problems with Magda are temporarily over.‘How happy we both are,’ he writes on Sep 2, 1933, ‘she is my only darling.’71 Borresholm, 106ff; diary, Aug 19, 1933.72 Riefenstahl interrogation, and interview, Jul 15, 1989; see JG’s reference to her as fährigin his unpubl. diary, Aug 26, 1934.73 NYT, Aug 29; ltr Louis Lochner to Betty, Nov 12, 1933 (State Historical Society ofWisconsin, Lochner papers, box 47).74 NYT, Sep 13, Nov 24, 1933.75 Cabinet meeting, Sep 12, 4:30 P.M. (BA: R.43I/1465); cf NYT, Sep 15, 1933.76 NYT, Sep 24, 25, 1933.77 Paul Schmidt, Statist auf diplomatischer Bühne. See La Suisse, Sep 25, 26; JG diary, Sep 28;and the report by G Motta, chief of the political department, to the Conseil Nationale,Berne, Sep 27, 1933, publ. in Documents Diplomatiques Suisses (Berne, 1982), 835ff.78 Burckhardt, 51ff.79 The full text of JG’s speech of Sep 28 is in Lord Tyrell’s telegram No.226 to FO (PROfile FO.371/17367 and /16728); see too NYT and La Suisse of Sep 29, and Tribune de Genève,Sep 29–30, 1933.80 Borresholm, 111f.81 Paul-Boncour to Daladier, Sep 29, 1933, in Documents Diplomatiques Français 1932–939(1st series) vol.iv, No.259.82 Eden, minute, Sep 26, 1933 (PRO file FO.371/17368).GOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH 32183 Weizsäcker, private letter of Oct 1 (Leonidas Hill, Die Weizsäcker Papiere, 76); on Oct 6,1933 Weizsäcker wrote that he was ‘well satisfied’ with JG’s visit.322 GOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH

Goebbels22: Twilight of the Gods and Tally-hoONE DAY that September of 1933 twenty thousand well-drilled schoolchildrenformed up into a map of Germany, while clusters of smiling children standingoutside represented the lost German provinces of Memel, Danzig, and the Saar.At a given signal Germany’s frontiers opened to engulf these