Joseph Goebbel's (1897-1945). In 1929, Hitler appointed Goebbels Minister of propaganda for the National Socialist party. A genius and a man of many, many talents, even many of Goebbels enemies credit him as being the father of modern propaganda. Goebbels defined propaganda in an address given in September 1934 in Nuremberg, he said: "Good propaganda does not need to lie, indeed it may not lie. It has no reason to fear the truth. It is a mistake to believe that people cannot take the truth. They can. It is only a matter of presenting the truth to people in a way that they will be able to understand. A propaganda that lies proves that it has a bad cause. It cannot be successful in the long run."