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In this address at the Düsseldorf Reich Music Festival on May 29, 1938, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels outlines the regime's complete subordination of art to state ideology. He defines the artist as "the most powerful representation of a people's cultural consciousness" while emphasizing that the state's role is to "build the bridge" between the people and artistic creation.

Goebbels reveals how the Nazis systematically instrumentalized culture for political purposes, using events like the Reich Music Festival as "annual representative demonstrations" of German musical creativity under party control. Most significantly, he celebrates the recent Anschluss with Austria as having brought "an extensive increase in musical cultural property" - openly boasting about annexing Austrian composers like Gluck, Mozart, Schubert, and Bruckner into the Nazi cultural empire.

This speech exemplifies the Nazi practice of Gleichschaltung (coordination) in the arts, where creative expression served state propaganda and territorial expansion was framed as cultural unification.

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