German Radio Propaganda: Report on Home Broadcasts During the War 1st Edition in Dust Jacket 1944 by Ernst Kris & Hans Speier - World War II

Title: German Radio Propaganda: Report on Home Broadcasts During the War

Author: Ernst Kris, Hans Speier

Description: First Edition. Blue cloth boards stamped in gilt. Front bottom corner bumped. Previous owner's name on ffep, else fine. Dust jacket shows only very faint wear; not price clipped ($4.00). DJ in archival sleeve. Index. 529 pp. 8.6 x 6 inches.

This book reports how the Second World War was presented by the German propagandists to the German people. It is divided into three major sections: the first contains a discussion of the planning of radio propaganda and the fight of the Propaganda Ministry for credibility in the face of distrust on the part of many Germans. The second part describes the images which Nazi propaganda originally tried to create of Hitler and of minor leaders. The third part discusses the course of the war and the propagandists' efforts to present victory as an inevitable result of Hitler's initiative and foresight.

The report is based on the work of the Research Project on Totalitarian Communication at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, which was under the directorship of the two senior authors of this volume, and conducted between April 1941 and November 1943.

Hans Speier (1905-1990), during the time, was the Chief German Analyst of the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service of the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, D.C. He was a German-born sociologist, the first PhD student of sociologist Karl Mannheim. He emigrated to the United States in 1933. In 1948 he became the first Director of the Social Science Department for the RAND Corporation.

Ernst Kris (1900-1957) was born in Austria and fled to London in 1938 after the German invasion. While in London, prior to moving to New York in 1940, he analyzed Nazi radio broadcasts for the BBC. He was a psychoanalyst, a member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, a co-author with Anna Freud, and a lecturer at both the Vienna and New York Psychoanalytic Institutes.

From the collection of Prof. Don E. McIlvenna, a faculty member of Oregon State University's Department of History between 1965 and 1995, and acquired by him while obtaining his doctorate at Stanford.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Very Good+

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Place: London, New York, Toronto
Year: 1944

Language: English

ISBN: n/a

Keywords: World War Two, Second World War, WWII, WW II, Germany, Nazi, Goebbels, National Socialist, NSDAP,