One man was appointed to lead the Nazi propaganda ministry and besmirch the Jewish people in the public eye. Joseph Goebbels, among the several people that Hitler trusted most, was appointed to head the Reich Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda on March 13th of 1933. Joseph Goebbel once, in fact, said these words: “If you tell a lie big enough, people will …show more content…
Any viewpoint that opposed that of the Nazis was censored or entirely eliminated from the media. In the Spring of 1933, Nazi professors and librarians made lists of books that they thought the German people shouldn’t read, including books written by Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, and Sinclair Lewis. On the night of May 10th, 1933, Nazis barged into bookstores all across Germany and took books from the lists. The books were burned in massive bonfires in Berlin as the Nazis chanted and paraded. Joseph Goebbels spoke When Helen Keller’s books were burnt, she responded with, “Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.” Some books were removed from classrooms, but others were completely rewritten to enforce Nazi ideals and placed in the hands of German children. The Nazis also camouflaged the acts performed in concentration camps by sending fabricated postcards to the victims’ families about how well they were treated. The Nazis masked the truth of their actions to keep the citizens of Germany carefree and