in fact, closer investigation reveals that the East Prussian ‘Battle for Work’ was, from start to finish, a carefully stage-managed media event. The agricultural economy of East Prussia was ideally suited for fast-acting but primitive work creation measures. And it was Walther Funk, the ex-business editor now acting as State Secretary in Goebbels’s Propaganda Ministry, who chose Koch’s provincial backwater as the launch pad for the national campaign.
