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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.
As Hitler's Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, Goebbels masterminded the Nazi propaganda machine and executed its murderous agenda.
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 ...
May 18, 2018 · [OCTOBER 29, 1897–MAY 1, 1945] Nazi propagandist and close associate of Hitler. Joseph Goebbels was second only to Adolf Hitler as a propagandist of the Nazi movement. Small and sickly as a child, he was deemed ineligible for military service because of a clubfoot.
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. Goebbels soon envisioned an empire that would control schools, universities, film, radio, and propaganda.
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.
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.
