Joseph Goebbels would have been disappointed to learn that his office was superfluous and irrelevant!

Goebbels and his office represent the direct opposite of freedom of speech, just to counter your Reddit-inspired mic-drop hot take comment.

	▲	RupertSalt 28 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The point was how they gained absolute power, and I would also say that there were multiple factors at work, and I doubt that the GP meant that “abusing free speech” was the only method or reason, but was it not a factor at all? There is often so much “not this but that”, folks should consider “both-and”.