While Fritzche shares the perspective of a Nazi, his argument surrounding the ability for radio to gain followers is supported by Carruthers and largely difficult to dispute. In addition, film in the Third Reich was almost as important as radio for propaganda. Without television, the cinema was the main visual media available to the public. The majority of Germans attended the cinema each week where they would watch feature films and newsreels that were always officially approved. The department of film was in control of the licensing of every film prior to its production and under the authority of Goebbels’ and Hitler the film industry soon became entirely nationalised. By 1936, the National Socialist Propaganda Directorate, overseen by Goebbels’,
