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Joseph Goebbels
Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and philologist who was the Gauleiter of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler's closest and most devoted followers and was known for his skills in public speaking and his extreme antisemitism which was evident in his publicly voiced views. He…
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politics · German Nazi propaganda minister (1897–1945) · politician · diarist · autobiographer · journalist · novelist · propagandist · screenwriter · demagogue · writer · Holocaust perpetrator · also Joseph Goebbels, PJG, Goebbels
Born 29 October 1897 · Died 1 May 1945 · Q41749
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2026· 2 entries
Lead Stories rated the claim “Bruce Springteen, Jason Kelce, and Snoop Dogg, other entertainment and sports celebrities, called Trump adviser Stephen Miller a "Nazi" who is "the Goebbels of the cabinet."” Viet Spam.
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2025· 3 entries
Snopes rated the claim “An image authentically shows a newspaper article from Feb. 4, 1939, reporting that Joseph Goebbels, the minister of propaganda for the German Third Reich under Adolf Hitler, banned five comedians for joking about the Nazi Party and its leaders.” True.
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Snopes rated the claim “During a March 2025 congressional hearing, U.S. Rep. Keith Self, a Republican from Texas, quoted Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as saying, "It is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion."” True.
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2024· 1 entry
Yahoo: Joseph Goebbels’ unwanted lakeside villa set to be given away for free
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2023· 1 entry
fact checker rated the claim “A photo shows a Graffiti of Zelenskyy and Goebbels in Paris.” fake.
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2020· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels said that "intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger."” Incorrect Attribution.
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2013· 2 entries
The Forward: Joseph Goebbels Novel Faces Ban in Russia
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The Atlantic: The Six Degrees of Separation Between Joseph Goebbels and Daimler and BMW
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1970· 1 entry
KGB director Yuri Andropov authorised an operation to destroy the remains
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1948· 1 entry
That they walked ahead of him up the stairs and out into the Chancellery garden
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1945· 5 entries
Died 1945-05-01.
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Career landmark: Reich Chancellor (1945–1945).
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“The money pigs of capitalist democracy… Money has made slaves of us… Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.”
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“One class has fulfilled its historical mission and is about to yield to another. The bourgeoisie has to yield to the working class ... Whatever is about to fall should be pushed. We are all soldiers of the revolution. We want the workers' victory over filthy lucre. That is socialism.”
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Goebbels' ministry was destroyed by an Allied air raid on 13 March, making it exceedingly difficult for him to disseminate propaganda
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1943· 1 entry
Goebbels began to pressure Hitler to introduce measures that would produce "total war", including closing businesses not essential to the war effort, conscripting women into the labour force, and enlisting men in previou
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1940· 2 entries
That Goebbels "is the cleverest of all the Nazis", but could not succeed Hitler because "everybody hates him"
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“Opis: 11 września 1940 w rozmowie z czeskimi intelektualistami.”
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1938· 3 entries
Goebbels soon redirected his propaganda machine against Poland
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Goebbels took the initiative time and again to use propaganda to whip up sympathy for the Sudeten Germans while campaigning against the Czech government
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That "[p]ersonally he likes nobody, is liked by nobody, and runs the most efficient Nazi department
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1937· 1 entry
Was the Degenerate Art Exhibition, organised by Goebbels, which ran in Munich from July to November
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1936· 3 entries
Goebbels met the Czech actress Lída Baarová and by the winter of 1937 began an intense affair with her
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Goebbels summed up his general attitude in his diary: "[N]ow is the time for action
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In 1936, Goebbels met the Czech actress Lída Baarová and by the winter of 1937 began an intense affair with her.
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1935· 2 entries
“Bolshevism is the declaration of war by Jewish-led international subhumans against culture itself.”
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Under the title My Part in Germany's Fight
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1934· 1 entry
Goebbels published Vom Kaiserhof zur Reichskanzlei (lit
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1933· 3 entries
Career landmark: Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (1933–1945).
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Hitler signed the Reichskonkordat (Reich Concordat), a treaty with the Vatican that required the regime to honour the independence of Catholic institutions and prohibited clergy from involvement in politics
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Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry quickly gained control over the news, media, arts, and flow of information in Nazi Germany
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1932· 3 entries
Goebbels commissioned the publication of a pamphlet of his family tree to refute the rumours that his maternal grandmother was of Jewish ancestry
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“Joseph Goebbels and Mjölnir, Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (Munich: Verlag Frz. Eher, 1932)”
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Goebbels organised massive campaigns that included rallies, parades, speeches, and Hitler travelling around the country by aeroplane with the slogan "the Führer over Germany"
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1930· 1 entry
Criticised Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini for his relative lack of hostility towards Jews, stating that "Mussolini appears to have not recognized the Jewish question
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1929· 1 entry
By Eher-Verlag, the publishing house of the Nazi Party
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1928· 3 entries
Election lost: 1928 election.
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“Warum sind wir Sozialisten,” Der Angriff editorial, July 16, 1928, reprinted in Der Angriff, Munich 1935, p. 223. David Schoenbaum, Hitler's Social Revolution: Class and Status in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939, W.W. Norton & Company (1997) p. 25”
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Campaign: 1928 election.
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1926· 3 entries
Career landmark: Gauleiter (1926–1945).
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Goebbels published a pamphlet titled Nazi-Sozi which attempted to explain how National Socialism differed from Marxism
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Where he began to take an interest in the use of propaganda to promote the party and its programme
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1925· 1 entry
“The New York Times, “HITLERITE RIOT IN BERLIN: Beer Glasses Fly When Speaker Compares Hitler and Lenin,” (Nov. 28, 1925) p. 4.”
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1924· 1 entry
And worked with Gregor Strasser in its northern branch
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1923· 2 entries
Neither of which sold – forced him to take employment as a caller on the stock exchange and as a bank clerk in Cologne, a job he detested
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And continued for the rest of his life, provided an outlet for his desire to write
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1921· 1 entry
Wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, Michael, a three-part work of which only Parts I and III have survived
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1897· 2 entries
Born 1897-10-29.
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“Who should die, the Germans or the Jews? You know what your eternal enemy and opponent intends for you. There is only one instrument against his plans for annihilation.”
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