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to members of the Cabinet, Sep 3 (NA film T120, roll 2474, E255295ff); Heydrich,Schnellbrief of Sep 16, 1939 (Hoover Libr., Lerner papers, file DE.460/DIS.202).25 JG circular to all gauleiters and gau propaganda directors, Sep 10, 1939 (NA film T581/16; BA file NS.26/291).26 Darré diary, Sep 6; and see the entry for Sep 20, 1939.27 Unpubl. diary, Sep 4, 1939.28 Ibid., Sep 5, 87; JG assured Alfieri late on Sep 4, 1939 that since there were no U-boatsnearby, Mr Churchill must have ordered the Athenia, with its many American passengers,sunk to propel the USA into the war (loc. cit, 6577)29 Unpubl. diary, Sep 5, 1939.30 Ibid. Sep 6, 1939.31 Note for Alfieri, Sep 9, 8:30 P.M. (pp.6577ff).32 Unpubl. diary, Sep 6, 1939.33 Führer decree of Sep 8, 1939 on Foreign Propaganda, ND: NG.3259 and ADAP(D),vol.viii, No.31; and see foreign ministry (Habicht) to Keitel, Nov 29, 1939 (OKW files, NAfilm T77, roll 64, 7860f).34 Unpubl. diary, Sep 9, 1939.35 E.g., Ibid., Sep 14, 15, 1939.36 Ibid., Sep 10, 1939.37 Note for Italian minister of popular culture on phone call to JG, Sep 10 (pp.6583ff);Unpubl. diary, Sep 11, 1939. ‘Then I brief the Führer and Ribbentrop on our conversation.They want to wait and see. Question what Russia’s up to now.’38 Unpubl. diary, Sep 17, 1939: ‘The justification is very original,’ commented JG.39 Ibid., Sep 13, 1939.40 Note for Italian minister of popular culture on phone call to JG, Sep 16, 8 P.M. (pp.6586f).578 GOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH41 JG propaganda directive, Oct 2, 1939, in OKW secret propaganda files (NA film T77,roll 964, 7332).42 Unpubl. diary, Sep 27, 1939.43 Diary, Oct 11, 13, 1939.44 Ibid., Dec 12, 1939.45 Ibid., Oct 18, 1939.46 Ibid., Oct 14, 17, 1939.47 Ibid. Oct 15, 18, 1939.48 Ibid., Oct 20, 1939.49 Ibid., Oct 23; VB, Oct 21, 1939.50 Ibid., Oct 28, 1939.51 On this routine see the interrogations of inter alia Helmuth Sündermann, Oct 15; WernerStephan, Oct 29; Fritzsche, Oct 7, Dietrich, Oct 14 and 17, and Gutterer, Dec 18, 1947(NA RG.260, list 53-3/7, box 15).52 Kreis-, Gau-, Stoßtrupp- and Reichsredner. See the RPL report, ‘Die Propagandaarbeitder Partei im Kriege,’ winter 1940–41 (NSDAP archives, NA film T581, roll 16).53 Diary, Nov 5, 1937.54 Ibid. Oct 17, 24, Nov 2, 3, 9, 11, 12, 18, 19, 28, Dec 18, 1939.55 Veit Harlan, Im Schatten meiner Filme. Eine Selbstbiographie (Gütersloh, 1966), 111f.56 Ibid., Dec 15, 30, 1939.57 H Parlo et al., Jud Süß. Historisches und juristisches Material zum Fall Veit Harlan (Hamburg,1949).58 Sunday Express, Sep 3, 1939, p.1.59 Diary, Oct 31, 1939.60 Daily Sketch, London, Nov 9; diary, Nov 17, 19. Ministerkonferenz, Nov 19, 1939. (Thetranscripts of these ministerial conferences, now on the original microfiches in Moscowarchives, were also held on microfilm in ZStA Potsdam; Willi Boelcke, a former ZStA official,fled to West Germany taking microfilms with him, and published them as Kriegspropaganda1939–1941. Geheime Ministerkonferenzen im Reichspropagandaministerium (Stuttgart, 1966), andWollt Ihr den totalen Krieg? Die geheimen Goebbels-Konferenzen 1939–1943 (Stuttgart 1967).Whether from Boelcke or the original files I cite them hereafter as ‘MinConf.’— See tooKarl-Dietrich Abel, Presselenkung im NS-Staat (Berlin, 1968), and Fritz Sänger, Politik derTäuschungen. Mißbrauch der Presse im Dritten Reich., Weisungen, Informationen, Notizen (Vienna,1975).61 Diary, Nov 2; and see Westdeutscher Beobachter, Nov 1, DAZ, Nov 2, NYT, Nov 3; andpicture in Illustrierte Beobachter, Nov 9, 1939.62 Diary, Nov 3, 1939.63 Ibid.64 Ibid., Dec 5, 1939.65 Rosenberg diary, Nov 11, Dec 3, 1939; for JG’s speech see DAZ, and Berliner Börsenzeitung,Oct 23, 1939.66 Diary, Nov 2; RMVP (Hippler) to Schaub, Nov 1, and reply (BA file MS.10/46); cf.Rosenberg diary, Dec 8, 1939.67 Rosenberg diary, Dec 11; JG diary, Dec 12, 1939.GOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH 57968 See the architect’s file, Oct 1939, in ZStA Potsdam, Rep.50.01, RMVP, vol.1032; anddiary, Oct 15, 21, 22, 28, 1939.69 Diary, Oct 18–26, 1939.70 Ibid., Nov 10, 1939.71 Ibid., Oct 27, 30, 1939.72 Ibid., Nov 5, 1939.73 Ibid., Nov 8, 1939.74 Ibid., Dec 4, 1939; and letter from her secretary to ration card office, Jan 9, 1940 (ZStAPotsdam, Rep.90, Go 2, vol.2).75 Diary, Dec 6, 9, 1939.76 See Himmler files, NA film T175, roll 473, 4786; and BA file NS.10/126.77 Diary, Nov 9, 1939.78 Press circular, Nov 9, 1939 (Hoover Libr: Fritzsche papers, box 4); on Nov 10, thecircular directed journalists to blame ‘world Jews and not the Jewish community in Germany.’79 Diary, Nov 10, 11; press circular, Nov 22, 1939.80 Borresholm, 146ff.81 Diary, Nov 11, 12, 1939.82 MinConf., Nov 10, 1939.83 Diary, Nov 13, 14, 15; MinConf., Nov 11, 13; press circular, Nov 11; cf. NYT, Nov 13,1939. The murderer Georg Elser, 36, a Swabian watch-maker, had been caught a few hoursafter the bomb blast: see BA files NS.20/65, and R.22/3100; he appeared to have actedalone.84 Press circular, Nov 21; news of the capture had been embargoed on the tenth (ibid.)85 MinConf., Nov 2, 22, 25, 1939; Boelcke, 229.86 MinConf., Nov 11, 13, 1939.87 Borresholm, 146ff.88 Karl Loog, Die Weissagungen des Nostradamus. Erstmalige Auffindung des Chiffreschlüssels undEnthüllung der Prophezeihungen über Europas Zukunft und Frankreichs Glück und Niedergang 1555–2200 (Pfullingen, 1940). And Bruno Winkler, Englands Aufstieg und Niedergang nach denProphezeiungen des großen französischen Sehers der Jahre 1555 und 1558 (Leipzig, 1940).— Diary,Dec 5, 14; MinConf., Dec 5, 1939. He sent a copy of the Nostradamus brochure to Hitler’sadjutant Albert Bormann on Sep 10, 1940 (Princeton Univ. Libr: Hitler collection).89 MinConf., Dec 11, 12, 1939.90 Diary, Dec 13, 14, 17; MinConf., Oct 28, 1939, Feb 27, 1940.91 Diary, Dec 17, 1939.92 Press circular, Dec 11, 1939 (Hoover Libr.: Fritzsche papers, box 4). For a furthercollection of RAP Berlin special press circulars Oct 1939–Jul 1940 see ZStA Potsdam,Rep.50.01, RMVP, vol.1041.93 Diary, Dec 20, 1939.94 MinConf., Oct 28; MinConf., Apr 20, 24, 1940.95 Diary, Nov 3; MinConf., Nov 2, 3, 11, 1939.96 Diary, Nov 3; press circular, Nov 18, 1939.97 MinConf., Nov 3, 16, 17; press circular, Nov 20; VB, Nov 21, 1939.580 GOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH98 MinConf., Nov 17, 18, Dec 19, 20, 1939; Jan 11, 1940. Diary, Dec 14, 17, 19; Dec