From the Book - First edition.
Prologue, 1897-1933 : to advance at any price
Ringa a song eternally from youth's happy hours : Joseph Goebbels on his childhood and youth
Spare the rod and spoil the child : Goebbels' path to National Socialism
Working with the mind is the greatest sacrifice : positioning himself in the early NSDAP
Faith moves mountains : political beginnings in Berlin
Struggle is the father of all things : the Gauleiter and the capital of the Reich
A life full of work and struggle is truly a blessing for all time : politics between Berlin and Munich
Dare to live dangerously! : Goebbels' radicalism and Hitler's policy of 'legality'
Now we must gain power... one way or another! : a share of government
I have a blind faith in victory : on the way to power, 1933-1939 : controlling the public sphere under dictatorship
We're here to stay! : taking over power
Only those who deserve victory will keep it! : consolidating the regime
Whatever the Führer does, he does completely : the establishment of the Führer-State
...taking firm control of the inner discipline of a people : propaganda and manipulation of the public sphere
Never tire! : foreign policy successes and anti-Jewish policies
The tougher the better! : Olympic year, 1936
The 'most important factors in our modern cultural life' : consolidating Nazi cultural policies
Don't look round, keep marching on! : the firebrand as peace-maker
Maturity is only achieved through suffering! : preparations for war-from the Munich Agreement to the attack on Poland, 1939-1945 : war-total war-total defeat
War is the father of all things : the first months of the war
There is only one sin : cowardice! : the expansion of the war
Our banners lead us on to victory! : between the War in the West and the War in the East
A great, a wonderful time, in which a new Reich will be born : the attack on the Soviet Union
Getting the nation to accept tough policies : the Winter Crisis of 1941/42
We can see in our mind's eye a happy people : offensives and setbacks
Do you want total war? : the Second Winter Crisis
The masses have become somewhat skeptical or one could even say are in the grip of a permanent state of hopelessness : crisis as a permanent state
I have no idea what the Führer's going to do in the end : the search for a way out
...virtually a wartime dictatorship on the home front : between an apocalyptic mood and total war
But when will there be some action? : downfall.
