After receiving his doctorate in 1934, Hippler became a lecturer at the German University of Policy in Berlin. From 1936 he worked as assistant to Hans Weidemann working on the production of German
newsreels, directed in the
Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. Here he learned the production of documentaries. In January 1939, he took over Weidemann's position. In August 1939, Goebbels promoted Hippler again. He appointed the 29-year-old Hippler to head the film department at the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda RMVP. In February 1942, he appointed him as . With these two functions, Hippler was one of the most important politicians of the film "Third Reich" after Goebbels. In October 1942, he was Director in the RMVP. His task was control, supervision and direction of German filmmaking. In 1938, Hippler was appointed to the rank of
SS Hauptsturmführer. According to
Veit Harlan, Hippler loved to wear his
SS uniform. children shown in the film The Eternal Jew In his ministerial functions, Hippler continued to produce films. In 1939-40 he was responsible for the propaganda film
The campaign in Poland. In 1940, he was responsible for the management and design of the feature-length documentary film
The Eternal Jew—according to Courtade,
History of Film in the Third Reich, "the vilest anti-Semitic Nazi films." The film historian Frank Noack assessed
The Eternal Jew as "probably the most radical inflammatory film of all time". An article written by Hippler in the magazine "The film" about its creation marked Jews as "parasites of national degeneracy." He deliberately filmed conditions within the
Warsaw Ghetto to show the starving inhabitants, conditions designed by the Germans to increase the death rate. The film served as a preparation and agreement of the population in the coming
holocaust and was mainly used for training of police and SS troops. In the same year, as recognition for his service to the Reich, Adolf Hitler bestowed a secret endowment of 60,000 Reichsmarks to Hippler. In addition to
The Eternal Jew Hippler also directed the 1940 propaganda documentary
Feldzug in Polen about the Third Reich's invasion and occupation of
Poland in 1939, and
Die Frontschau (The Frontshow), a series of shorts shown to soldiers before being shipped to the
Eastern Front. In 1942, Hippler published a book about
film theory titled
Betrachtungen zum Filmschaffen (i.e.,
Contemplations on Filmmaking), which included a preface by
Emil Jannings. By 1943, he was promoted to
Obersturmbannführer. ==Conflict with Goebbels==