... nobody left in Germany willing to tell him he was wrong, no one willing to question anything he said, no matter how outlandish it seemed. During the early part of the war, life in Germany did not change radically. Rationing ensured adequate food supplies and the economy was not switched to intensive was production. Goebbels used all the resources at his disposal to build up pride in Germany's military glory. War heroes were popularised and newsreels gloatingly related the story of Germany's victories. However, after 1942, when the course of the war began to turn against Germany, Nazi policy inside Germany became more extreme. Albert Speer, when Fritz Todt was killed in an air accident in February 1942, Speer was appointed to succeed him as minister of armaments, and in September 1943 he was named minister of armaments and war production. Albert Speer is said to have prolonged the ...

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