Joseph Goebbels

Joseph Goebbels

politician
propagandist
demagogue
Holocaust perpetrator
Nazi Germany
✝️Catholicism
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Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and philologist who was the Gauleiter of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler's closest and most devoted followers and was known for his skills in public speaking and his virulent antisemitism which was evident in his publicly voiced views. He advocated for progressively harsher discrimination, including the extermination of Jews and other groups in the Holocaust.

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1897 – 1945
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145
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10
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Born in
Rheydt
Educated at
Heidelberg UniversityUniversity of BonnUniversity of FreiburgUniversity of Würzburg

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