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e. 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. He was one of Adolf Hitler 's closest and most ...
- 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
Schematic diagram of the Vorbunker as it was in April 1945....
- Ludwig Stumpfegger
Some sources report that, as the Red Army advanced towards...
- Death of Adolf Hitler
Joseph Goebbels, his wife Magda, and their six children....
- Karl Hanke
Karl August Hanke (24 August 1903 – 8 June 1945) was an...
- Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
The ministry was tailored for Joseph Goebbels, who had been...
- Goebbels Children
The Goebbels children were the five daughters and one son...
- Harald Quandt
- Early Life
- Involvement in The Nazi Party
- The Nazi Regime
Joseph Goebbels was born as Paul Joseph Goebbels in Mönchengladbach on 29 October 1897. His father, Friedrich Goebbels, was a bookkeeper and his mother was Maria Goebbels (born Oldenhausen).[source?] He was the third child of the family and grew up with five siblings. Due to an illness in his childhood in 1901, Goebbels' right foot was malformed an...
Goebbels joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party in 1926. In the same year, Hitler made him a Gauleiter for Berlin and Brandenburg.[source?] In 1927, Goebbels published the first Nazi newspaper, Der Angriff (The Attack), in Berlin. The newspaper was printed twice a week. In 1928, he became a member of the German Reichstag. He kept this ...
Pre-World War time
In 1934, Goebbels moved to a villa near Berlin.[source?] On 30 June 1934, he saw the arrest of Ernst Röhm in Bad Wiessee. Goebbels gave the order to confiscate about 650 art exhibits in 1937. He put them on display in show called Degenerate Art. On 9 November 1938, a German diplomat was killed in France by a Jewish teenager. Because of this murder, Goebbels gave the order to the SS for what is now called Kristallnacht.
Second World War
At the start of the Second World War, Goebbels ordered to broadcast special announcements at the cinema and on the radio.[source?] On 26 May 1940, he published the new weekly newspaper Das Reich (The Imperium) for the first time. In 1942, Goebbels took part in the Wannsee Conference. He was one of the Nazi leaders who planned the Final Solution to kill all the Jewish people. In 1943, he gave a well known speech in the Berlin Sportpalast where he called the Germans to support total war. The co...
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Jul 23, 2023 · Paul Joseph Goebbels ; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician who was the Gauleiter of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler's closest and most devoted acolytes, known for his skills in public speaking and his deeply virulent antisemitism, which was evident in his publicly voiced ...
1993-2008. The Goebbels Diaries are a collection of writings by Joseph Goebbels, a leading member of the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) and the Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda in Adolf Hitler 's government from 1933 to 1945. The diaries, which have only recently been published in full in German and are ...
- 1993-2008
- Diary
The Sportpalast speech (German: Sportpalastrede) or Total War speech was a speech delivered by German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels at the Berlin Sportpalast to a large, carefully selected audience on 18 February 1943, as the tide of World War II was turning against Nazi Germany and its Axis allies. The speech is particularly notable as ...
Joseph Goebbels. (1897–1945). German minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels served the Third Reich (Germany’s regime from 1933 to 1945) under Adolf Hitler. Goebbels was responsible for presenting a favorable image of the Nazi regime to the German people. Following Hitler’s suicide at the end of World War II, Goebbels served as chancellor ...
