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    Mobilising the Third Reich: the final phase: an analysis of Joseph Goebbels' role as Reich Plenipotentiary for the total war effort, July 1944 - March 1945
    Fitzmaurice, Camielle Jean ( 2014)
    The final ten months of the Second World War have been characterised as a time of bureaucratic and military chaos. However, this thesis demonstrates than in his role as Reich Plenipotentiary for the Total War Effort, from July 1944 until March 1945 Joseph Goebbels was able to implement a program for the total mobilisation of all human and material resources towards the war effort to some success. Combining his continuing role as Propaganda Minister with his new role as Plenipotentiary his approach to the program for total war can be characterised as one that maintained a primary emphasis on ‘propaganda and the ‘spoken word as the most powerful weapons’. However, not without an element of realism in the acknowledgement that ‘soldiers, weapons and raw materials’ now determined the outcome of warfare in the twentieth century.