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Reply #6: And then there was: "The Battle in the Pharus Hall" by Nazi Propaganda Meister Joseph Goebbels [View All]

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Turborama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 11:36 AM
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6. And then there was: "The Battle in the Pharus Hall" by Nazi Propaganda Meister Joseph Goebbels
Edited on Fri Aug-07-09 11:37 AM by Turborama
Background: Joseph Goebbels book The Battle for Berlin was an account of the beginning of the Nazi Party in Berlin. He presents an idealized portrait of courageous idealists fighting for a noble cause. This section describes a battle in a meeting the Nazis had organized in the Wedding district of Berlin, a communist stronghold. Goebbels chose the location as a provocation to the Marxists. He wanted a fight, and got one. It the classic Nazi account of such a fight.

The source: Joseph Goebbels, Kampf um Berlin (Munich: Verlag Franz Eher, 1934), beginning on p. 63. The book was first published in 1932.

The Battle in the Pharus Hall



It was a provocation the likes of which Berlin had never seen. Marxism thinks it presumptuous if a person with nationalistic sentiments expresses them in a working class district. And in Wedding ?! Red Wedding belongs to the proletariat! It had been that way for decades, and no one had the courage to object and prove that was not the case.

And the Pharus Hall — that was the uncontested domain of the K.P.D. (the Communist Party of Germany). They held their party congresses there. Almost every week they gathered their most loyal and active members there. Here one had heard only talk of world revolution and international class solidarity. Here of all places the NSDAP scheduled its next meeting.

It was an open declaration of war. We meant it that way and the opponent understood it that way. Our party members were jubilant. Everything was now at stake. The future of the Berlin movement would be risked boldly and bravely. It was win or lose!

Continues:
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/berlin.htm

Archive of his work that's most probably in Rove's bookmarks list: http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goebmain.htm

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