Хавкин Борис Львович

This article examines the fundamental principles and rules of Nazi propaganda, developed by Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propa© Хавкин Б. Л., 2025 63 ОБЩЕСТВО И ПОЛИТИКА ganda Joseph Goebbels, and the implementation of these rules through technical means such as radio and television. It was radio and television that ensured the pervasiveness of Goebbels' propaganda. Goebbels believed that the spoken word had a stronger impact on the masses than the printed word, so he chose radio as the primary tool of Nazi propaganda. Regarding television, Goebbels was initially skeptical about the emergence of this technological marvel of the 20th century. However, over time, he came to appreciate its merits as a propaganda medium. Goebbels used television as a clear example of German technological achievements. Nazi propaganda declared Fernsehen (remote viewing) an Aryan invention, proof of the intellectual and technical superiority of the “master race.” Using television, Nazi propagandists taught Germans how to live, creating a reality they believed the German people needed

In the article, based on the analysis of a new source on the history of the German anti-Hitler Resistance — “handwritten testimony” of the Wehrmacht General Staff Major Joachim Kuhn, given by him on September 2, 1944 in Soviet captivity, the history of the German military conspiracies against Hitler is recreated. Major Kuhn's documents are a unique source of both German and Russian recent history. Joachim Kuhn since September 1943 belonged to the anti-Hitler opposition. His name became known in Germany after the assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944. Kuhn was in close contact with the actual leader of the conspiracy, Colonel of the General Staff, Count Stauffenberg, and his active participant, Major General H. von Treskov. Kun was convicted both in the Third Reich as a conspirator and defector and in the USSR as a war criminal. At the request of Günther Wagenlener , chairman of the Association of Former Repatriates, Prisoners of War and Family Members of Missing Persons (FRG), the Main Military Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation on December 23, 1998 rehabilitated the former German officer Kun Joachim, convicted in 1951 by the Military Court of the Moscow Military District, “due to the absence of corpus delicti in his actions.” In historiography, it was believed that Kuhn's traces were lost in Stalin's dungeons. But after the rehabilitation, documents from Kuhn's dossier became available to researchers. Based on Russian archival sources, the author of this article was able to trace Kuhn's life in Soviet captivity and after his return to Germany