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In Germany between the 1920s and 1940s, the Nazi party pursued a systematic programme of propaganda, distorting facts and spreading lies to encourage particular attitudes. From 1933 the Ministry of Propaganda, under the direction of Joseph Goebbels, took the use of propaganda as a means of mass communication to new heights, and propaganda became the science of moulding opinion rather than a medium for reliable information. Goebbels was able to manipulate every issue to fit with the ideology of Nazism. Radio, newspapers, books, and even school lessons were moulded to spread Nazi messages of the racial superiority of German Aryans, and condemn the Jews as the scapegoats of Germany's problems.

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