The "Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda" was the primary vehicle that the Nazis had used to enforce Nazi ideology and centralise Nazi control of German culture and thinking. "Propaganda" literally means "biased information often used to promote a political cause".
It seems strange that the Nazi's had bluntly called this division the "ministry of propaganda" given that propaganda is a tool that seems to work most effectively when people aren't aware that they are being indoctrinated. Are people not less likely to believe something if they are explicitly told that it has been skewed in order to be convincing and manipulative?
Was the understanding of the concept of "propaganda" different in Nazi Germany? Did calling it "the ministry of propaganda" have no effect on the way the propaganda was received by the population?
