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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