The Road To Pearl Harbor, 1919-1941
Season 1 • Episode 16: FDR and Hitler: The Dynamics of Power • Watch with subtitles
Episode 16: FDR and Hitler: The Dynamics of Power
April 2, 2002
Both Hitler and Roosevelt appreciated the value of mass communications. FDR began his series of "fireside chats" to reassure and inform the people while Hitler assigned Josef Goebbels as Minister of Propaganda to control the public through radio and rallies. F.D.R. wished to stabilize the economy and restore confidence to the people. Hitler began rearmament in hopes of national expansion.
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