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This is a short compendium of the life of Joseph Goebbels, one of the most terrible men in Nazi Germany,
Joseph Goebbles was born in 1892 in Rheydt, where he grew up. Rheydt is a borough of the German city Mönchengladbach, located in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia.
He went to Heidelberg University where he got a doctorate in philosophy. Heidelberg University is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg. Founded in 1386 on instruction of Pope Urban VI, Heidelberg is Germany's oldest university and one of the world's oldest surviving universities.
He wanted to be a writer, and during this time he wrote his novel "Michael" but it was rejected by publishers, and it was only when he was a powerful man in Germany that it was published. The novel is a combination of Goebbels' own thoughts and the life of his best friend Richard Flisges who had fought in World War I, and later ended his college studies to work in a mine where he died in an accident.
She started a relationship with Else Janke. She met Joseph Goebbels around 1922 and gave him his first diary in October 1923, which became a major focal point of his early personal writings. When Janke revealed her Jewish heritage to Goebbels—who was becoming increasingly radicalized by National Socialist ideology—the relationship deteriorated. Goebbels officially ended their five-year liaison around July 1927 as his standing in the Nazi party grew.
Goebbels became the personal secretary of Franz von Wiegershaus. Friedrich Wiegershaus (2 June, 1877; † 1934) was a German Nationalist politician. Völkische Freiheitspartei (Völkisch Freedom Party). For Goebbels—who was then a struggling PhD graduate, failed author, and former bank clerk—this position marked his formal entry into politics.
He was in close contact with Karl Kaufmann. Karl Kaufmann (10 October 1900 – 4 December 1969) was a German politician who served as a Nazi Party Gauleiter from 1925 to 1945 and as the Reichsstatthalter (Reich Governor) of Hamburg from 1933 to 1945.
Goebbels became a regular contributor in the Nazi periodical, the Nationalsozialistische Briefe. The Nationalsozialistische Briefe (National Socialist Letters), often abbreviated as NS-Briefe, was a prominent bi-monthly Nazi periodical published in Weimar Germany from October 1, 1925, until around 1930. Gregor Strasser founded and initially oversaw the publication. After regional restructuring and changing party dynamics, his brother Otto Strasser took over its publication and management. A young Joseph Goebbels was hired by Strasser as the business manager of the Working Association and the editor-in-chief (Schriftleiter) of the NS-Briefe. Goebbels used his platform here to establish himself as a leading voice and agitator within the movement.
Goebbels targeted Bernhard WEiss in his antisemitic tirades. Bernhard Weiss (30 July 1880 – 29 July 1951) was a German lawyer and Vice President of the Berlin police during the Weimar Republic. A member of the liberal Deutsche Demokratische Partei, Weiss was known as a key player in the political tensions during the Weimar Republic and a staunch defender of parliamentary democracy against extremists on the left and right.
Goebbels married Magda Quandt in 1931. In 1930, Magda attended a meeting of the Nazi Party, where she was impressed by one of the speakers, Joseph Goebbels. She joined the party on 1 September 1930, and became the leader of a local Nazi women's group. From the local branch, Magda moved to the party headquarters in Berlin and for a brief period became secretary to Hans Meinshausen, Goebbels' deputy, before being invited to take charge of Goebbels' own private papers. She and Goebbels became romantically involved while on a short trip with friends to Weimar in February 1931.
One event that was important was the fire in the Reichstag, which was blamed on the Communists. The Reichstag fire was an arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German parliament in Berlin, on Monday, 27 February 1933, precisely four weeks after Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch council communist, was said to be the culprit; the Nazis attributed the fire to a group of Communist agitators, used it as a pretext to claim that Communists were plotting against the German government, and induced President Paul von Hindenburg to issue the Reichstag Fire Decree, suspending civil liberties, and pursue a "ruthless confrontation" with the Communists. This made the fire pivotal in the establishment of Nazi rule in Germany.
Hindenburg was the president of Germany, but he was a poppet in the hands of the Nazis. Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg(2 October 1847 – 2 August 1934) was a German military officer and statesman who led the Imperial German Army during World War I and later became President of Germany from 1925 until his death in 1934. Though ideologically opposed to Nazism, he played a key role in the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 through his appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.
The Reich Chamber of Film (Reichsfilmkammer, abbreviated as RFK) was a government agency which operated as a statutory corporation controlled by the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda that regulated the film industry in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945. Membership in the Reichsfachschaft Film department was obligatory for everyone in the German Reich who wanted to work on films in any capacity; lack of membership meant in effect a ban on employment.
Hitler took over from Hindeburg when he died on August 2, 1934. . He merged the offices of President and Chancellor into a single position.
Goebbels had six children: Helga, Hilde, Helmut, Holde, Hedda and Heide.
Goebbels had an affair with actress Lida Baarova, but Hitler intervened and ordered him to leave her. Lída Baarová (born Ludmila Babková; 7 September 1914 – 27 October 2000) was a Czech actress. Goebbels and Lida began a secret and then increasingly open relationship around 1936. Goebbels became infatuated with the actress, and their romance nearly caused him to leave his wife, Magda Goebbels. Magda Goebbels complained directly to Adolf Hitler about her husband's affair. Because Hitler valued the stability of his inner circle's public image, he intervened in late 1938. Hitler ordered Goebbels to break off the relationship immediately. Baarová was banned from making films in Germany, had her public appearances restricted, and was eventually forced to leave the country.
The Sportpalast speech 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. It is considered the most famous of Goebbels's speeches. The speech was the first public admission by the Nazi leadership that Germany faced serious dangers. Goebbels called for a total war to secure victory over the Allies, and urged the German people to continue the war even though it would be long and difficult because, as he asserted, both Germany's and Europe's survival were "at stake" from Bolshevism.
The Goebbels stayed in the bunker in 1945, and after Hitler's death, the Goebbels paced a suicide and killed their six children. After Hitler died on April 30, 1945, Goebbels briefly served for one day as the Chancellor of Germany, as designated in Hitler's political will. On May 1, 1945, inside the Führerbunker, Goebbels' wife, Magda Goebbels, poisoned all six of their children (Helga, Hilde, Holda, Hedda, Heide, and Martina) with cyanide capsules. Shortly after the murder of their children, Joseph and Magda Goebbels went up to the garden of the Reich Chancellery and took their own lives by cyanide and/or gunshot.
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