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THE CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL CONFLICT BETWEEN JOSEPH GOEBBELS AND ALFRED ROSENBERG TOGETHER WITH GOEBBELS’S PROPAGANDA AGAINST THE GERMAN CHURCH

Prof. Dr. Osama Abdulrahman Al-Duri, Miss GhadaFaeq Mohammed Ali

Volume: 9 Issue: 2 2019

Abstract:

Paul Joseph Goebbels, (Born on October 29,1897-died May ,1945) Reich Minister for popular Enlightenment and propaganda of Nazi Germany , got into cultural and intellectual disputes with a number of Nazi leaders. However, these disputes were imposed by the nature of political competition and Hitler also enforced these conflicts , disagreements as competitions by taking neutral position just to let them get his satisfaction and consent as well as they could get a recommendation from him .Thus , one of the most important figures that Goebbels had got into dispute with was the theorist , Alfred Rosenberg , in that there was a severe conflict and dispute between them concerning modernism and tradition in the German culture .Thus Goebbels was one of those who supported modernism unlike Rosenberg who was anti-modernistic .This respectiveness was the core of the struggle between them .Besides, Goebbels had got into disputes with the German church and he used his propaganda for the sake of bringing the church down publically.The most important findings the paper has come up with can be summarized as that Hitler has appointed Rosenberg as a tactical dodging to create a kind of balance in the power and Hitler is very aware of Goebbels’s capabilities so he chose his rival .Besides, Goebbels’s accusations against the Catholic church was not realistic .Rather , they serve d political and cultural competition since the Nazi leaders felt that the Germans’ loyalty is in favour of the church .Thus , they sought to launch immoral charges against the church to bring it down and that it could lose its spiritual standing in the Germans’ hearts.

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