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Paul Joseph Goebbels (German: [ˈpaʊ̯l ˈjoːzɛf ˈɡœbl̩s] ⓘ; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German philologist and Nazi politician who was the Gauleiter (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945.
- Harald Quandt
Harald Quandt (1 November 1921 – 22 September 1967) was a...
- Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War
Joseph Goebbels in 1942. The Reich Plenipotentiary for the...
- Gregor Strasser
Gregor Strasser (also German: Straßer, see ß; 31 May 1892 –...
- Alpine Fortress
The Alpine Fortress (German: Alpenfestung) or Alpine Redoubt...
- Vorbunker
The bodies of Goebbels six children were discovered on 3...
- Ludwig Stumpfegger
Ludwig Stumpfegger (11 July 1910 – c. 2 May 1945) was a...
- Death of Adolf Hitler
Schematic diagram of the Führerbunker. By early 1945, Nazi...
- Karl Hanke
Karl August Hanke (24 August 1903 – 8 June 1945) was an...
- Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
The Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda...
- Government of Nazi Germany
It was protected by Joseph Goebbels' effective propaganda...
- Harald Quandt
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, is a term used to describe the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
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Goebbels instructed Nazi propagandists to describe the invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) as the "European crusade against Bolshevism" and the Nazis then formed different units of the Waffen-SS consisting of mainly volunteers and conscripts.
Herf maintains that Joseph Goebbels and the Nazi Party actually used the big lie technique that they described – and that they used it to turn long-standing antisemitism in Europe into mass murder. Herf further argues that the Nazis' big lie was their depiction of Germany as an innocent, besieged land striking back at international Jewry ...
The Goebbels children were the five daughters and one son born to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda Goebbels. The children, born between 1932 and 1940, were murdered by their parents in Berlin on 1 May 1945, the day both parents committed suicide.
Both Adolf Hitler and his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels used the many Nazi films to promote the party ideology and show their influence in the burgeoning art form, which was an object of personal fascination for Hitler.