This book is the first comprehensive presentation of Goebbels' activities as the Nazi film minister. The author was also able to use the Nazi Propaganda Minister's diaries, which were long kept secret. Goebbels' film programme, his propaganda strategies, the planning of perfidious anti-Semitic feature films and suggestive war newsreels are reflected in these pages, and so is Hitler's influence and the way in which famous film stars co-operated with the Nazi leadership. Together with other unpublished material, this synthesis of biography and film history provides a fascinating, accurate and detailed glimpse behind the scenes of the German film industry and the internal perspectives of power.