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In the feature length produced during the Third Reich, the Nazis and especially their head of propaganda, Josef Goebbels used different techniques to get the German masses to buy into Nazi philosophies. Goebbels saw the mistakes made by early filmmakers who in trying to impress their new Nazi leaders made blatantly propagandistic films which were generally rejected by the public. Goebbels then came to the assumption that the best way to do propaganda is to …

…of their opponents in an attempt to incorporate all of Germany willingly into the Nazi party. He proved to be most successful in movies where nothing about the Nazis or their policies were said at all. When he tried to shove Nazi propaganda into the masses it was resoundingly rejected. In shifting his focus to movies Goebbels was able to show the German public Nazi ideals and the state of the government and Germany itself.