“A direct quote from Joseph Goebbels: ‘It is the absolute right ... which looked like a Nazi salute. He did little to defend the move at the time but instead made Holocaust-related jokes ...

while students gave the Nazi salute. In Berlin 40,000 people gathered to hear German Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels give a speech in Berlin's Opera Square.

Joseph Goebbels, Minister for National Enlightenment, controlled the media and arts. Goebbels made sure that Germans were fed Nazi ideology while organising for other ideas to be censored.