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One of the most influential and best informed bureaucrats of the Nazi regime, Klopfer was in charge of questions relating to "Race and National Character" and basic policies relating to the politics of occupation.
Feb 7, 1987 · Former Nazi SS Gen. Gerhard Klopfer, the last surviving member of the 1942 Berlin conference that plotted the “final solution” to systematically kill European Jews, has died at age 81.
Paul Joseph Goebbels (German: [ˈpaʊ̯l ˈjoːzɛf ˈɡœbl̩s] ⓘ; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician and philologist who was the Gauleiter (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945.
- Joseph Goebbels: Early Years
- Goebbels: Rising in The Nazi Party Ranks
- Joseph Goebbels: Hitler’s Propaganda Minister
- Joseph Goebbels: The Power of The Moving Image
- Joseph Goebbels: The Beginning of The End
- Joseph Goebbels: Final Years
Paul Joseph Goebbels was born on October 29, 1897, in Rheydt, Germany, an industrial city located in the Rhineland. Because of a club foot that he acquired during a childhood bout with osteomyelitis, a swelling of the bone marrow, the young Goebbels was exempted from service in the German army during World War I(1914-18). Instead, he attended a ser...
Goebbels quickly ascended the ranks of the Nazi Party. First he broke away from Gregor Strasser (1892-1934), the leader of the more anti-capitalistic party bloc, who he initially supported, and joined ranks with the more conservative Hitler. Then, in 1926, he became a party district leader in Berlin. The following year, he established and wrote com...
In January 1933, Hitler became the German chancellor, and in March of that year he appointed Goebbels the country’s minister for public enlightenment and propaganda. In this capacity, Goebbels had complete jurisdiction over the content of German newspapers, magazines, books, music, films, stage plays, radio programs and fine arts. His mission was t...
At the start of World War IIin 1939, Goebbels was entrusted with the task of uplifting the spirit of the German people and employing the media, and specifically the cinema, to convince the population to support the war effort. A typical project he instigated was “Der ewige Jude,” also known as “The Eternal Jew” (1940), a propaganda film that ostens...
In 1942, Goebbels organized “The Soviet Paradise,” a large Nazi propaganda show that was exhibited in Berlin. Its purpose was to bolster the resolve of the German people by exposing the chicanery of Jewish Bolsheviks. On May 18, Herbert Baum (1912-42), a Berlin-based German-Jewish Resistance leader, and his accomplices partly demolished the exhibit...
As the war plodded on and German casualties mounted, Goebbels became a proponent of an all-out battle to the death against the Allied forces. In this regard, he employed his own abilities as a public speaker to further incite the German populace. On one occasion, in August 1944, speaking from the Sports Palace in Berlin, he commanded the German peo...
Aug 20, 2024 · In 1924 Joseph Goebbels befriended members of the Nazi Party. He became district administrator of the party’s chapter in Elberfeld, Germany, and in 1926 Adolf Hitler appointed him district leader in Berlin. He would remain in that position until Hitler became dictator of Germany in 1933 and made him the Nazi state’s minister of propaganda.
- Joseph Goebbels was the Nazi minister of propaganda under Adolf Hitler. He was instrumental in convincing the German people to support the Nazi reg...
- As head of Nazi propaganda efforts, Joseph Goebbels crafted many of the myths and rituals that spread anti-Semitism and demanded devotion to the Fü...
- Joseph Goebbels and his wife poisoned their six children and killed themselves on May 1, 1945. He had become chancellor of Germany after Adolf Hitl...
Among them were Hermann Göring, Hitler’s vice chancellor and one of the best-known Nazi leaders; Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop; Hans Frank, the governor general of Nazi-occupied Poland; Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg; and Ernst Kaltenbrunner, a senior SS officer and head of the Reich Main Security Office.
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Dec 12, 2016 · According to scholars Christian Gerlach and Peter Monteath, among others, the pivotal moment for Hitler’s decision came on December 12, 1941, at a secret meeting with some 50 Nazi officials,...
