1897-1933 : to advance at any price
"Rings a song eternally / From youth's happy hours" : Goebbels on his childhood and youth
"Spare the rod and spoil the child" : Goebbels's path to National Socialism
"Working with the mind is the greatest sacrifice" : maneuvering 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" : politics between Berlin and Munich
"Dare to live dangerously!" : Goebbels's 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 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!" : the 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 peacemaker
"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 ... 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.
