On a Saturday morning in Berlin, Joseph Goebbels uses a regular propaganda meeting to decide how Germany can exploit what he believes is growing fear among British civilians. Goebbels argues that the next step is not only military pressure but psychological pressure, and he tells his officials to intensify panic in Britain as much as possible.

To do this, Goebbels orders Germany’s secret transmitters and foreign-language broadcasts to keep describing the supposedly terrible effects of German air raids. He specifically wants witness accounts that sound immediate and horrifying, so listeners will believe destruction is spreading. He also instructs broadcasters to warn that fog and mist will not protect Britain, claiming that bad weather may make bombing even more dangerous because bombs might fall off target.

Goebbels then prepares for the propaganda battle over civilian casualties. Expecting Britain to publicize the deaths of vulnerable civilians in order to stir international outrage, he tells his press officials to answer quickly with photographs of children killed in the May 10, 1940, Freiburg raid. The chapter notes the hidden irony that the Freiburg attack had actually been a German mistake, not an enemy atrocity.

Even as he sharpens this campaign, Goebbels acknowledges a strategic limit: Hitler still refuses to permit attacks on London itself. Because of that restriction, Goebbels frames the current bombing as only a warning, insisting that Germans must keep telling Britain that worse is still to come. The chapter shows Germany trying to weaponize fear before escalating its air war further.