Did Hitler feed the German people with false impression that they were winning the eastern front?

Truth is the first casualty of war.





To keep up the morale of their people, all governments at war make claims that – at the very least - minimize their problems or defeats, and exaggerate their victories. By the time of WW2, radio broadcasts and movie newsreels had given governments much more powerful propaganda media to add to old-fashioned newspaper reporting. And all countries at war suppressed – at least to some extent – freedom of speech and the press, to ensure that ONLY the government’s version of the truth reached their people.





So, yes ... for a long as he possibly could get away with lying, Hitler certainly did feed the German people with the impression that they were winning on the Eastern Front.





That impression was not always false. Germany’s immense territorial gains of 1941 and early 1942 were real enough.





It was only really from Stalingrad onwards that German “news” about the condition of the Eastern Front became less and less truthful. Often, it was not a matter of telling complete lies: more of disguising the truth about how far the German armies had been pushed back, and how great their losses were. The overall message changed from “a victorious crusade to destroy Bolshevism” to “a valiant struggle to defend Europe against the Bolshevik hordes.”





By late 1944, with the Red Army advanced well into Poland, it became impossible for even Goebbels to pretend that the war in the East was going well. The message was still “defending Europe against Bolshevism”. But now, false hope was offered to the German people via promises of war-winning wonder weapons (V-1 and V-2 rockets, jet aircraft, etc.).





Unfortunately for the Germans of East Prussia, the false promise that “the Russians will never be allowed to cross into the sacred territory of the Reich itself” was believed by many. They did not evacuate their homes and flee westward in time to escape the Red Army’s advance. Murder and rape was the price they paid for believing their leaders.Did Hitler feed the German people with false impression that they were winning the eastern front?
Study your history, and you will find that Hitler would have defeated Russia had it not been for the material we supplied Russia. The German war machine was nearly invincible, and were it not for the never ending source of supplies from the U.S.A., and eventuall manpower from the U.S.A. we could all be speaking German.Did Hitler feed the German people with false impression that they were winning the eastern front?
Not only the eastern but the western also...According to German propaganda in the time when Russians surrounded Berlin,the Wehrmacht soldiers were rising the swastika on top of White house,lol...Not to mention the German army was invading L.A. lol...just kidding but it was similar...
yes indeed
George S was pretty much correct. Also, there's the fact that Hitler decided to attack Russia at the worst possible time, and got bogged down in the Russian winter
Well, before Stalingrad Hitler thought they were winning on the Eastern front, so it wasn't so much that they were lying to the people as passing on their own views, which turned out to be wrong. And there was really no way they could have hidden a disaster the maginitude of Stalingrad, and they didn't try, instead declaring three days of national mourning. After Stalingrad, I think it would have been pretty obvious to anyone in Germany who was winning the war.
Yes
of course he did. Just like bush is telling America that they are winning in Iraq and that the world loves them.


All governments always fill people's heads with bullshit