Nazi propaganda and the Second World War / Aristotle A. Kallis.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-282) and index.

Introduction : 'totalitarianism', propaganda, war, and the Third Reich -- Propaganda, 'co-ordination', and 'centralisation' : the Goebbels network in search of a total empire -- 'Polyocracy' versus 'centralisation' : the multiple 'networks' of NS propaganda -- The discourses of NS propaganda : long-term emplotment and short-term justification -- From 'short campaign' to 'gigantic confrontation' : NS propaganda and the justification of war, 1939-41 -- From triumph to disaster : NS propaganda from the launch of 'Barbarossa' until Stalingrad -- NS propaganda and the loss of the monopoly of truth (1943-44) -- The winding road to defeat : the propaganda of diversion and negative integration -- Cinema and totalitarian propaganda : 'information' and 'leisure' in NS Germany, 1939-45