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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
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“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 • Doctorate of philosophy in 1920
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
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
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
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
Bibliography • www.historylearningsite.co.uk • www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk • www.britannica.com • www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org
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."