GOEBBELS LIFE |
Joseph Goebbels was born on October 29, 1897, in Rheydt, Germany. He graduated from a Roman Catholic high school and spent five years in undergraduate study at the University of Heidelberg, where he studied history. After graduating with a doctorate in German philosophy, he pursued a career in writing.
when Adolf Hitler became chancellor, Joseph Goebbels served as minister of propaganda for the Nazi German government of the Third Reich. After Adolf Hitler's suicide, Goebbels became chancellor of Germany for a single day before he and his wife, Magda Goebbels, poisoned their six children and took their own lives. |
SOURCE 1: quote from Joseph Goebbels
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SOURCE 2: Joseph Goebbels with classmates in 1916.
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SOURCE 3: Adolf Hitler, Magda Goebbels and Joseph Goebbels
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SOURCE 4: Biography of an Idea: Memoirs of Public Relations Counsel (1965)
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