ABSTRACT
The emphasis the Nazis placed on organisation arose from their analysis of the reasons behind the success of the Bolsheviks. Nazi propaganda had a supreme director, Dr Goebbels, and a supreme star, Adolf Hitler himself. Goebbels thought authentic film art must transcend the everyday and be 'intensified life'. He stressed the importance of variation, of repeating the same things in different forms. The people working in the offices of the Reich Propaganda Leadership, Goebbels claimed, were really mediocre. Goebbels was the supreme producer of the German cinema of the Third Reich, of moving imagery, choosing scenes and actors and directors, even inserting his own language into the scripts. Every film was shown at his home prior to being launched and he determined their political content and had a veto over their aesthetic. The Reich effectively had a binary management structure. Art policy is a representative prism to view the management of the Reich.
