ABSTRACT
The blue tinged light from these met thousands of feet up in the sky at the top to make a kind of square roof, to which a chance cloud gave added realism. The effect, which was both solemn and beautiful, was like being inside a cathedral of ice. The Nuremberg rallies represented the culmination of the annual celebrations of Hitler’s rise to power and of the revival of Germany under his direction while, at the same time, providing the emotional climax of a sustained propaganda campaign conducted throughout the year. Propaganda played a vital part in the peacetime diplomacy of both Italy and Germany. Propaganda, regardless of its precise definition, may well be an activity as old as man himself but its systematic or scientific employment in the service of government is basically a twentieth-century phenomenon. However, there were also various domestic forces working for the gradual acceptance of propaganda as an instrument of the modern democratic state.
