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Born on October 29, 1897
Raised by strict Catholic family from
Rheydt in the Rhineland
Educated at a Roman Catholic school
Studied history and literature at the
University of Heidelberg under Professor
Friedrich Gundolf
Joseph Goebbels was declined from the
military in World War 1 because of a foot
injury from his childhood. This weakness
in his figure made him suffer through
many things in life. Fearing he would be
called a “bourgeois intellectual”, he
joined the NSDAP (the Nazi Party) in
1922.
Goebbels expressed his frustration and
thoughts through poetry, drama, and
writing. He wrote a novel, Micheal: ein
Deutsches Schicksal in
Tagebuchblattern. Although, writing this
book did not fulfill his need to express
anger.
The Nazi Party is where Goebbels fully came to express his full gifts and intelligence. In 1925, Goebbels became the business manager of the NSDAP and by the end of the year was the principal collaborator of the leader social-revolutionary North German wing, Gregor Strasser. Goebbels founded and edited the Nationalsozialistischen Briefe (NS letters).
In 1929, Adolf Hitler was impressed by Goebbels success that he made him Reich Propaganda Leader of the NSDAP. On June 24, 1942, Hitler made the claim, “Dr. Goebbels was gifted with the two things without which the situation in Berlin could not have been mastered: verbal facility and intellect.. . . For Dr. Goebbels, who had not found much in the way of a political organization when he started, had won Berlin in the truest sense of the word."
In 1934, Goebbels
married a woman
named Magda
Quandt. She was
previously divorced
and brought with her
an older son.
Together Joseph
and Magda had six
children named
Helga, Hildegard,
Helmut, Hedwig,
Holdine and Heidrun.
On September
13, 1935,
Joseph
Goebbels
made an
excellent
speech to the
annual
congress of
the Nazi Party.
Goebbels was the minister of propaganda. He made speeches, attended rallies, and supported the German when they fought in World War 2. He became of Adolf Hitler’s best friends and his partner in the war.
Joseph Goebbels was
surrounded by party
members when he
made his last radio
address to the
German people on
April in 1945.
After the German defeat in World
War 2,
Goebbels and his wife
poisoned their
children. Then Goebbels killed
his wife and
himself.
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