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As Hitler's Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, Goebbels masterminded the Nazi propaganda machine and executed its murderous agenda.
Nazi Party. Joseph Goebbels was a National Socialist politician and propagandist. He held several roles in the Nazi Party. He served as Nazi Party chief for Greater Berlin from 1926 until 1945. From 1929 until 1945 he was Reich leader of propaganda.
Joseph Goebbels, (born Oct. 29, 1897, Rheydt, Ger.—died May 1, 1945, Berlin), German Nazi leader. After earning a doctorate from Heidelberg University, he joined the Nazi Party and was appointed district leader in Berlin by Adolf Hitler in 1926. A gifted speaker, Goebbels also edited the party’s journal and began to create the Führer myth ...
Joseph Goebbels was the architect of the Nazi propaganda machine: a person whose mastery of mass media manipulated the truth and fueled the fires of hatred and war with a precision that remains chillingly effective in its scope and impact. As a result, his legacy is inextricably linked to the worst horrors of the Third Reich.
Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment. In the days after the Nazi electoral victories of July 1932, Adolf Hitler informed Joseph Goebbels that he intended to make Goebbels director of a new propaganda ministry when the Nazis took over the reins of national government.
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The German politician Joseph Paul Goebbels (1897-1945) directed the extensive system of propaganda in Nazi Germany. Joseph Goebbels was born on Oct. 29, 1897, in the Rhenish textile city of Rheydt, the son of a pious Catholic bookkeeper of modest means.
May 22, 2006 · The Man Behind Hitler, a portrait of Joseph Goebbels, delivered in words taken directly from the diaries he kept from 1924, when he joined the Nazi party, until his suicide in 1945, read by...
