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    Joseph Goebbels was born in 1897 in Germany and joined the Nazi party in 1923. He became the Minister of Propaganda in 1933 and skillfully controlled the messaging and propaganda to promote the Nazi agenda and control public opinion. As the war turned against Germany, Goebbels demanded total war from the German people. In 1945, as the Soviet army advanced on Berlin, Goebbels killed his six children before committing suicide with his wife in Hitler's bunker, demonstrating his extreme loyalty to Hitler and the Nazi cause until the very end.

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    Joseph Goebbels was born in 1897 in Germany and joined the Nazi party in 1923. He became the Minister of Propaganda in 1933 and skillfully controlled the messaging and propaganda to promote the Nazi agenda and control public opinion. As the war turned against Germany, Goebbels demanded total war from the German people. In 1945, as the Soviet army advanced on Berlin, Goebbels killed his six children before committing suicide with his wife in Hitler's bunker, demonstrating his extreme loyalty to Hitler and the Nazi cause until the very end.

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    Joseph Goebbels was born in 1897 in Germany and joined the Nazi party in 1923. He became the Minister of Propaganda in 1933 and skillfully controlled the messaging and propaganda to promote the Nazi agenda and control public opinion. As the war turned against Germany, Goebbels demanded total war from the German people. In 1945, as the Soviet army advanced on Berlin, Goebbels killed his six children before committing suicide with his wife in Hitler's bunker, demonstrating his extreme loyalty to Hitler and the Nazi cause until the very end.

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    Joseph Goebbels

    1897-1945
    Biography
    • Born 28th October 1897 in Rheydt, Prussia, Germany.
    • He was born into a Catholic family. His father was a factory clerk, his
    mother a farmhand.
    • He had 4 siblings; Hans, Konrad, Elisabeth, and Maria
    • He went to a Christian high school, where he completed his Abitur
    in 1916.
    • He had a deformed right leg, the reason for it unknown.
    • He married Magda Ritschel in 1931, and had six children with her.
    • He studied literature and philosophy at the universities of Bonn,
    Wuerzburg, Freiburg and Heidelberg.
    • He married Magda Ritschel in 1931, and had 6 children with her.
    • When the war was clearly over, the couple killed their 6 children
    before committing suicide.
    Joining the Nazi Party
    • He came into contact with the party in 1923,
    when Hitler was campaigning the resistance
    to the French occupation of the Ruhr.
    • Hitler was imprisoned in 1923, so Goebbels
    joined under the infuence of Gregor Strasser
    (Nazi organiser in northern Germany).
    • Goebbels, since he had journalistic skills,
    became a key ally to Strasser
    Role before they came to power
    • Goebbels was given the task of building up
    Nazi support in Berlin.
    • He had this from 1926 and 1930
    • Elected to the Reichstag in 1928, and again in
    1930.
    • He was given overall charge of the
    propaganda machine in 1929. This is where
    Goebbels excelled.
    Role after they came to power
    • When Hitler was appointed Chancellor in 1933,
    Goebbels was given the title of Minister of
    Enlightenment and Propaganda.
    • He held this post until 1945.
    • Something that made Goebbels different was that he
    could control what people thought.
    • When these people were taken in by Goebbels, they
    were attracted by a colour film of propaganda videos
    (like “The Eternal Jew or Triumph of the Will.
    • These displays at Nuremburg are significant even today
    for how organised it was.
    What happened to him during the war
    • During the war, Goebbels used his skill for public
    speaking to persuade the German people that
    the war was going their way.
    • After the Battle of Stalingrad, this was much
    more difficult.
    • They had to come up with a propaganda film
    about the battle, which they ended up portraying
    as a mistake on the General’s parts.
    • Goebbels demaded ‘total war’ from Germany.
    • In 1944, he was appointed Reich Commissioner
    for Total Mobilisation.
    What happened to him after the war
    • When it was clear that Germany were going to lose the
    war in 1945, Goebbels stayed with Hitler in his bunker.
    • He wrote in his diary that he blamed the German
    people for their defeat, not Hitler.
    • On May 1st, he, along with this wife, gave poison to his
    six children, killing them
    • He then shot his wife, followed by himself.
    • He gave orders that their bodies should be burned.
    • Before his death, it is said that he received Hitler’s wrist
    watch because he was the only senior Nazi leader to
    have stayed with the Fuhrer until the end.

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