While the Air Ministry intimidated with its sheer size, Goebbels’ ministry was a far more subtle affair. The original building had been extended in clean, modernist style with a mellow stone façade and modish torch lamps to allow more Lebensraum for the Reich’s propaganda empire. Inside, a viewing theatre and pine-panelled conference rooms had been added, giving the general impression of a sleek, state-of-the-art machine, producing an unending stream of rebuttals and manufactured news to feed the ravenous world media. As she waited for Hauptsturmführer Huber, Mary watched a bustling stream of journalists filing out of the conference room behind her. Every morning a bulletin would be posted in the lobby with details of the daily press conferences, to be delivered either by Reich Press Chief Otto Dietrich or Goebbels himself. The subjects were generally attacks on the Church, the Jews, the Czechs, or the Bolsheviks. No one was left in any doubt what to write.
