Chapter 143: First Encounter with Hitler
Anderson's lively and interesting speech drew applause from the audience from time to time, and Anderson was very satisfied with the situation, waving to the audience again and again, and striding back to the viewing platform.
Now that the opening ceremony was almost over, Anna walked up to the stage and said loudly to the audience: "Thank you Mr. Philip and Minister Anderson for your wonderful speeches, and thank you for your unstinting applause. This concludes the opening ceremony of the 2nd Stockholm International Defense Exhibition, thank you! ”
In addition to military delegations from various countries, there are also professionals from military academies and military and weapons research institutes, as well as reporters from news media. In particular, reporters from news media want to get the freshest news clues, and of course, the booths of exhibitors are the best place.
Hitler, who was mixed in the Krupp company's delegation, and his assistants Rosenberg and Goebbels, did not follow the crowd to the exhibition area, but squeezed all the way to the main stage, Goebbels looked at his master, saw Hitler nodded to him, and then walked towards Philip on the stage alone.
Philip was communicating with Anderson and the others about the opening ceremony, but he saw a man with deep eyes and a high nose walking towards him with a limp, and he couldn't help but look at this person with some doubts, because he didn't know this person at all, and he didn't know why he was walking towards him, but he thought that this person might be looking for Minister Anderson.
Unexpectedly, the man walked up to Philippe, gave a gentlemanly salute, and then said in pure German: "Greetings, Dear Mr. Philip! I'm a member of the Krupp delegation in Germany, my name is Paul Josef Goebbels, I know that you used to be part of Krupp, and now I would like to take a step forward with you, can I know? ”
Hearing this man named Paul Josef Goebbels say this, coupled with his disabled leg, Philip suddenly chuckled in his heart, if he remembered correctly, the full name of Goebbels, Hitler's confidant in German history and later the propaganda minister of the German government, was not exactly Paul Joseph Goebbels? And this man is also a cripple. That's right, the propaganda minister was 4 years old and had a lame leg because of illness. Hearing Goebbels' invitation, Philip knew that Hitler must have arrived here and wanted to meet with him, but since Anderson and others were here, he did not say so.
As for this Hitler assistant, Philip was also well aware of his experience. Goebbels was a staunch patriot in his youth. He was lame at the age of 4 due to illness, but this did not prevent him from being determined to embark on the journey of reviving the great German nation. At the beginning of the First World War, he was 18 years old, and despite his disability, he applied again and again to join the army, but unfortunately was not approved. Unable to serve his country on the battlefield, Goebbels chose to realize his ideals in the field of political culture. Soon after receiving his doctorate from university, he began his political career and joined the Nazi Party.
Goebbels excelled in his studies from an early age, especially in writing and speaking, and he lived a difficult life on a scholarship while studying at eight prestigious German universities, including the Universities of Bonn, Frankfurt, Berlin and Heidelberg. Goebbels studied philosophy, history, literature and art, as well as Latin and Greek. After graduating from the University of Heidelberg in 1921, he received a doctorate in literature from the University of Boon in the same year. Goebbels initially devoted himself to writing novels, plays, and poems, including the novel Michael, the play The Wanderer, and The Lonely Guest, but there were no publishers willing to publish them at the time. He had wanted to be a journalist or a staff member of the broadcasting bureau but had been unemployed, and his attempts to enter the Jewish publishing house had failed, and he had a brief stint at a newspaper in Cologne, but was fired due to economic downturns, and Goebbels continued to pretend to go to work every day without telling his family.
Goebbels was fond of reading, good at thinking, brilliant in his talents, eloquent in oratory, and highly educated, and stood out among the party in Nazi. He was quickly taken by Hitler, and he was impressed by Hitler's ideas and charms. Especially in the case of the supremacy of the German nation and the state, he particularly admired Hitler's undisguised extreme arrogance. Goebbels was thrilled by the revival of the greatest and greatest nation of mankind, and he devoted himself to the cause of the party. In 1928, he was appointed party propaganda minister. Five years later, in 1933, the Nazi Party seized power, and he became the government's Minister of Propaganda and National Education.
Goebbels, like Hitler, was also a goalist, and in order to achieve the goals of the Party and the highest interests of the Motherland and the nation, he could do whatever it took in his propaganda, and it did not matter if he lied. Goebbels said: "The mass media can only be an instrument of the Party, whose task is to explain to the people the policies and measures of the Party and to transform the people with the Party's ideology and theory." "Propaganda is the vanguard of an organization, and propaganda is always only a means to an end." "Propaganda is like falling in love, you can make any empty promises." "Even if it's a simple lie, once you start telling it, get to the bottom of it." "A lie repeated a thousand times is the truth."
Goebbels valued not only software, but also hardware. Soon after the advent of radio in the Nazi period, Goebbels realized the power of radio propaganda and ordered the production of 10 million radios, so that every German household could hear the party's policies and the instructions of the leader in time. Goebbels did not forget to instruct the manufacturer of the radio that the radio must be designed so that it can only listen to German radio. Goebbels also asked Germans to turn up the volume when listening to the radio and open windows so that passers-by could also hear the radio.
Knowing that it was Hitler who came to the defense exhibition, Philip couldn't help but have infinite associations with this famous figure who ranked 35th among the 100 influential people in human history, although the reputation of this big man was not very good, but he had countless fans, even in China in the 21st century, and those people were called German fans.
So Philip nodded and said, "Okay, you come with me!" ”
Philip stood up, apologized to Anderson and the others, and led Dr. Goebbels to the Defense Exhibition office area, where there was a temporary office for him. As he walked, Philip looked behind him out of the corner of his eye, and sure enough, he saw two people following him. One of them had a signature mustache, and his dark brown hair parted in the middle and glued to his head with hair oil. His eyes were closer to mid-lake blue—very close to violet.
This man is probably the controversial Führer, right? Philip said in his heart. Although Hitler's appearance was somewhat embarrassing, almost everyone who stayed with him was attracted to his inexplicable personal charm. This charm comes from an unusual pair of facial organs---- his light blue eyes, whose sharp gaze is legendary in that pure Germany. Legend has it that these eyes possessed a breathtaking magic, and legend has it that an anti-Nazi police officer, who was sent to maintain order at a rally held in Hitler's early years, joined the party simply because the Führer's sharp gaze swept over him. Not knowing if it was really that magical, Philip became curious.