Paul Joseph Goebbels

Hitler’s propagandas minister

BiographyName: Paul joseph Goebbels.

Born: October 29, 1897, in Rheydt, Germany.

Height: 1.65m.

Died: May 1 ,1945 Berlin.

Spouse: Magda Goebbels

Didn’t like Hitler at first but soon grew to admire him.

Early yearsHe was not able to join the German Army in WW 1 because of the disability in his leg (osteomyelitis, a swelling of the bone marrow.)

In the 1920’s he was not able to accomplished his career as a journalist, novelist and playwright.

In 1922 he become a member of the National Socialist German Worker’s (Nazi) party.

He become acquainted with Adolf Hitler.

Goebbels gave Hitler the idea that words and images were potent devices that could be used to brainwash the German people.

Hitler was impressed with Goebbels ability to communicate his thoughts while Goebbels was enamored of Hitler’s talent for speaking in front of large crowds.

Rising in the Nazi party Ranks

In 1928, Goebbels was elected to the Reichstag, the German parliament.

Hitler name him the Nazi party propaganda director.

He arranged massive political gathering at which Hitler was presented as the savior of the new Germany.

Minister of public enlightenment and propaganda

In January 1933 when Hitler become the German chancellor, and in march of that years he appointed Goebbels the country’s minister for public enlightenment and propaganda.

Goebbels had complete JURISDICTION (the official power to make legal decisions and judgments) over the content of Germans newspapers, magazines, books , music , films, stage plays, radio programs and fine arts.

His mission was to censor all opposition to Hitler and present the chancellor and the Nazi party in the most positive way while stirring up hatred for Jewish people

In April 1933, at Hitler directive, Goebbels began to force in the burning of un German books in a public ceremony at berlin’s opera house.

The works of dozens of writers were destroyed, including German-born authors. Such authors like:

Erich maria rmarquw

Arnald zweig

Thomas mann etc

In September 1933, Goebbels became director of the newly formed Reich chamber of culture.

His mission was to control all aspects of the creative arts.

The power of the moving image

At the start of WW II in 1939, Goebbels was given the task of uplifting the German people and employing the media, and specifically the cinema to convince the population to support the war effort.

One of the major project was the Der ewige jude AKA the eternal Jew.

A propaganda film that show the Jews as depicted as parasites who disrupt the world.

Over viewIn 1933, the year Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) became chancellor of Germany, he named Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), his trusted friend and colleague, to the post of minister for public enlightenment and propaganda. Goebbels was charged with presenting Hitler to the public in the most favorable way, regulating the content of all German media and fomenting anti-Semitism. Goebbels forced Jewish artists, musicians, actors, directors and newspaper and magazine editors into unemployment, and staged a public burning of books that were considered ”un-German. Goebbels remained in this post and was loyal to Hitler until the end of World War II (1939-45). On May 1, 1945, the day after Hitler committed suicide, Goebbels and his wife poisoned their six children and then killed themselves.

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