Joseph Goebbels: life and death

Thacker, Toby 2009. Joseph Goebbels: life and death. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

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Abstract

Joseph Goebbels was the most notorious demagogue of the twentieth century, and Hitler’s closest confidant. This book uses his complete diary from 1923–1945, only recently released from the former Soviet Union, and a wide range of other sources, to present a challenging new interpretation of his life. It charts Goebbels’ rise from provincial obscurity in the Rhineland, through his emergence as the most dynamic speaker of the Nazi Party and the Gauleiter of Berlin in the 1920s, to his appointment as Hitler’s Propaganda Minister in 1933. Combining analysis of Goebbels’ relationships with women and of his political career, it argues that there were clear threads running through his life, from a turbulent adolescence through to his death. Goebbels’ love of German culture, his obsession with ‘sacrifice’, his fascination for Hitler, and his hatred of the Jews led him into a fatal involvement with German politics which cuminated in his suicide, together with his wife and six children, in Hitler’s bunker in 1945.

Item Type:	Book
Book Type:	Authored Book
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	History, Archaeology and Religion
Subjects:	C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CT Biography D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D204 Modern History D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D731 World War II D History General and Old World > DD Germany
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:	9780230228894
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Last Modified:	10 Mar 2020 02:33
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/45553

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