Ibid., Sep 26, Oct 2, 4, 1940.13 Ibid., Aug 4; cf. Meldung, Aug 15, 1940 (NA film T175, roll 259, 2178f).14 Diary, Aug 5, 6, 1940.15 Ibid., Aug 7, 1940.16 Ibid., Aug 9, 1940.17 MinConf., Aug 9, 10; diary, Aug 10–13, 1940.18 Ibid.., Aug 12, 1940.19 Diary, Aug 13, 1940.20 Ibid., Aug 14, 1940.21 Ibid., Aug 23, 1940. On the nineteenth JG noted, ‘It makes you sick!’22 Ibid., Aug 21, 22, 1940.23 See the Political Warfare Executive (PWE) study, Development of German Propaganda,Aug. 1940, p.9 (PRO file FO.898/30).24 Churchill’s phoned directive of Aug 25 is in Air Ministry papers, PRO file AIR14/775;the VB headline on Aug 27 read, ‘London dresses up attack on Berlin as a “reprisal”.’25 Diary, Aug 26, 27, 1940.26 Ibid., Aug 29, 30, 1940.27 Ibid., Aug 31, 1940.28 Titel had organised Goebbels’ biggest Berlin displays like the May Day rally of 1933: itwas his task to ensure that the columns of marchers converged simultaneously on the stadiums,and that they were not too wide for the bridges en route, etc.29 For the reports to JG on Churchill’s air raids on Berlin Sep–Dec 1940, see ZStA Potsdam,Rep.50.01, RMVP, vol.896.30 MinConf., Sep 8, 1940.31 The real figure was bad enough, 360.32 Diary, Sep 9, 1940.33 Ibid., Sep 10; on Sep 11, 1940 he added: ‘We’re hyping up the raid on Berlin; reverse ofhitherto.’34 Diary, Sep 11, 1940.35 MinConf., Sep 11; diary, Sep 12; on Sep 18, 1940 he confirmed: ‘After all, we inventedthe blazing Brandenburg Gate too.’36 MinConf, Sep 15, 1940.37 Diary, Sep 13, 1940.38 Ibid., Sep 12, 1940.39 Ibid., Sep 14, 1940.40 Ibid., Sep 15, 1940.41 Ibid., Sep 17, 1940.42 MinConf., Sep 6, 1940.43 Diary, Sep 15; as Berndt pointed out, this benefited only the BBC. Ibid., Oct 5, MinConf.,Oct 7. On Nov 11, JG’s diary noted the ‘colossal propaganda damage’. Hadamowsky put theRMVP case to Hitler, without success; see Diary, Nov 16, and MinConf., Nov 25, 1940.620 GOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH44 MinConf., Sep 17; diary, Sep 18, 1940.45 Ibid. and diary, Sep 17; in general, see the PWE fortnightly survey, Development ofGerman Propaganda, Sep 16–30, 1940 (PRO file FO.898/30).46 Diary, Sep 20, 1940.47 MinConf., Sep 20, 1940.48 Milch diary, Sep 14 (Author’s film DI-59); and diaries of Halder, OKW WFSt, and navalstaff, Sep 14, 1940.49 Diary, Sep 24, 1940.50 Ibid., Sep 25; JG used the boxing analogy in his article in VB, Dec 28, 1940.51 Oven, ‘Jul 6, 1944’, 380f.52 Diary, Sep 26, 1940.53 Ibid., Oct 2, 3, 1940.54 Ibid., Oct 3, 4, 1940.55 MinConf., Oct 9; diary, Oct 5, 1940.56 Diary, Oct 18; diary of General Hoffmann von Waldau, Oct 16, 1940 (Author’s film DI-75b).57 Diary, Oct 19, 1940.58 Ibid., Oct 20, 1940: ‘Göring is running a tight ship.’59 Oven, ‘Jul 6, 1944’, 380f: ‘I returned from this visit to Deauville with the worst possibleimpressions.’ And see the May 6, 1946 interrogation of Schirmeister, who accompanied JGto France (NA film M.1270, roll 19).60 Diary, Aug 3, Sep 18, 24, 25; Freybe to Frau Weinhold, Oct 15, 1940 (ZStA Potsdam,Rep.90 Go 2, vol.3).61 Ritschel to Magda, Oct 16; Magda to Ritschel, telegram, Dec 4, 1940 (ibid.)62 Diary, Jul 21, Oct 13, 1940.63 Ibid., Jul 24, 1940.64 Ibid., Sep 29, 1940; and cf. Nov 19, 1941 and Oven, 230.65 Diary, Oct 15, 1940.66 Note by Schweitzer, Nov 13, 1940 (ZStA Potsdam, Rep.50.01, RMVP, vol.5).67 Diary, Oct 29; and Bartels, note on desk cost, Nov 12, 1940 (ZStA Potsdam, Rep.50.01,RMVP, vol.5).68 Ibid; and Behrend, op. cit., No.19, May 10, 1952.69 Note by Ministerialrat Christian Spieler, Oct 31, 1940 (ZStA Potsdam, Rep.50.01,RMVP, vol.5).70 Estimate by Vereinigte Werkstätte, Jul 30 (ZStA Potsdam, Rep.50.01, RMVP, vol.759);diary, Feb 25, 1941.71 Naumann to adjutants, Aug 6, 1940 (ibid).72 Diary, Nov 2, 1940.73 Ibid., Nov 26, 1940; Apr 17, Jun 8, 13, 1941. ‘My ministry is gradually turning into amajor art collection.’74 Diary, Nov 2, 5, 23, 1940.75 Speer to Bartels, Sep 9, 1940 (ZStA Potsdam, Rep.50.01, RMVP, vol.5).76 Diary, Dec 5, 1940; cf. Jan 12, 1941.77 MinConf., Oct 20, 1940.GOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH 62178 Ibid., Oct 9; and see MinConf Oct 24, 1940: London was claiming to have killed 2,871Berliners in the last raids, the real figure was twelve.79 Diary, Nov 1, 1941.80 Ibid., Nov 2, 1940.81 Speech on occasion of 50th Family Favourites concert (Wunschkonzert), Dec 1, 1940(publ. in Zeit ohne Beispiel, 331f).82 Diary, Jul 5, 1940.83 Ibid., Jul 30, 1940.84 Ibid., Aug 5, 10, 16, 1940.85 Ibid., Aug 9, 1940.86 Ibid., Aug 15, 1940.87 Ibid., Aug 16, 24, 1940.88 Ibid., Sep 14, 19, 1940.89 Ibid., Nov 10, 1940.90 Ibid., Nov 11, 12, 1940.91 G Sander, op. cit.; and see JG’s Tagesparole (message for the day), Nov 14, 1940, citedin Boelcke, 566.622 GOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH
Goebbels40: A Few Choice Drops of PoisonHE NO longer spoke to Ribbentrop. A state of armed truce existed betweenthem. The two ministers insulted each other by proxy and wounded bypetty, bureaucratic devices when they could.1 ‘Everybody has their own day-dreamfor when this war is over,’ Goebbels would write. ‘Mine is: to loaf around and sleepand make music and read fine books; to lie in the sun; not to pick up a newspaper;and to hear nothing whatever about the foreign ministry.’2 Ribbentrop fired off a tenpagemissive at him in February 1940, but Goebbels disdained even to reply, marvellingthat his old enemy had time for such things, and calling him a megalomaniac.3(‘A sick man,’ he assessed later, ‘childishly stuck-up and pompous, with little behindthe facade.’4) Ribbentrop then wrote a twelve-page letter demanding that Goebbelsturn over all foreign-language broadcasting to his ministry.5 After Holland surrenderedhe tried to snatch the powerful Hilversum transmitter from under Goebbels’nose.6 When Goebbels sent out one of his best propagandists, Werner Wächter, toorganise in Paris, open warfare with Ribbentrop was the result.7 As a direct snub tohim, Goebbels set up a Reichspropaganda-Amt ‘Ausland’ (Abroad) to match thoseattached to each gau, under Felix Schmidt-Decker.8 Learning that the Börsenzeitunghad fêted Ribbentrop as a second Bismarck, Goebbels ordered Fritzsche to ensure(‘in Ribbentrop’s own interest’) that
