G O E B B E L S

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G O E B B E L S

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G O E B B E L S. “If you tell a lie, tell a big one.”. Joseph Goebbels. L I F E. Born on October 29,1897 in Rheydt , in the Rhineland Died, April 1945 Under five feet tall Had a limp. Schooling. Went to Roman Catholic schools Attended Heidelberg University - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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GOEBBELS

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“If you tell a lie, tell a big one.” Joseph Goebbels

LIFE

•Born on October 29,1897 in Rheydt, in the Rhineland •Died, April 1945•Under five feet tall•Had a limp

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Schooling

Went to Roman Catholic schools Attended Heidelberg University

Doctorate of philosophy in 1920

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World War I era

Could not participate in the First World War, due to clubfoot.

Later on, he told people his limp was due to an injury sustained in WWI, although it was really due to contracting polio as a child

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The Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei

Goebbels joined the NSDAP in 1922

Hitler gave him the task of building up support in Berlin

He was later appointed as Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda

Was a very powerful orator

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NSDAP: pre-WW2 period

May 10, 1933 Goebbels staged the infamous “book-burning”; pieces of Jewish, Marxist, and other “undesirable” work were piled and burned in a bonfire

Organized Kristallnacht on November 9-10, 1938

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Holocaust/WW2 Era

Was a chief secret abettor for deporting Jews from Berlin

In charge of morale boosts and propaganda

•Appointed Reich Commissioner for Total Mobilization after the German defeat at Stalingrad

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Bibliography

www.historylearningsite.co.uk www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk www.britannica.com www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org

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Death

He had his children poisoned with lethal injection

He commanded an SS officer to shoot him and his wife, May 1, 1945

"We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time, or as the greatest criminals."