![]() Just prior to starting grammar school, he underwent an operation that failed to correct the problem. It was thicker and shorter than his left foot. He had a deformed right foot that turned inwards, due to a congenital disorder. ĭuring childhood, Goebbels experienced ill health, which included a long bout of inflammation of the lungs. In 1932, Goebbels commissioned the publication of a pamphlet of his family tree to refute the rumours that his maternal grandmother was of Jewish ancestry. His father Fritz was a German factory clerk his mother Katharina Maria ( née Odenhausen) was born to Dutch and German parents in a Dutch village close to the border with Germany. Both of his parents were Roman Catholics with modest family backgrounds. Paul Joseph Goebbels was born on 29 October 1897 in Rheydt, an industrial town south of Mönchengladbach near Düsseldorf, Germany. The following day, Goebbels and his wife committed suicide, after having poisoned their six children with a cyanide compound.Įarly life, education, and relationships In accordance with Hitler's will, Goebbels succeeded him as Chancellor of Germany he served one day in this post. They moved into the underground Vorbunker, part of Hitler's underground bunker complex, on 22 April 1945. Hitler finally appointed him as Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War on 23 July 1944, whereby Goebbels undertook largely unsuccessful measures to increase the number of people available for armaments manufacture and the Wehrmacht.Īs the war drew to a close and Nazi Germany faced defeat, Magda Goebbels and the Goebbels children joined Hitler in Berlin. ![]() In 1943, 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 previously exempt occupations into the Wehrmacht. Topics for party propaganda included antisemitism, attacks on the Christian churches, and (after the start of the Second World War) attempting to shape morale. ![]() He was particularly adept at using the relatively new media of radio and film for propaganda purposes. ![]() After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Goebbels's Propaganda Ministry quickly gained and exerted control over the news media, arts, and information in Nazi Germany. He was appointed Gauleiter of Berlin in 1926, where he began to take an interest in the use of propaganda to promote the party and its programme. ![]() He joined the Nazi Party in 1924, and worked with Gregor Strasser in its northern branch. Goebbels, who aspired to be an author, obtained a Doctor of Philology degree from the University of Heidelberg in 1921. He advocated progressively harsher discrimination, including the extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust. 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 views. Paul Joseph Goebbels ( pronounced ( listen) 29 October 1897 – ) was a German 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. ![]()
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