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Paul Joseph Goebbels (German: [ˈpaʊ̯l ˈjoːzɛf ˈɡœbl̩s] ⓘ; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician and philologist who was the Gauleiter (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945.
Book burning in Berlin, 10 May 1933 Examples of books burned by the Nazis on display at Yad Vashem. ... — Joseph Goebbels, Speech to the students in Berlin [17]
The Sportpalast speech (German: Sportpalastrede) or Total War speech was a speech delivered by German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels at the Berlin Sportpalast to a large, carefully selected audience on 18 February 1943, as the tide of World War II was turning against Nazi Germany and its Axis allies.
The ministry was tailored for Joseph Goebbels, who had been the Reich propaganda leader of the Nazi Party since April 1930. By a decree of 30 June 1933, numerous functions of other ministries were transferred under the responsibility of the new ministry.
In April 1930, Hitler appointed Goebbels head of party propaganda. Goebbels, a former journalist and Nazi Party officer in Berlin, soon proved his skills. Among his first successes was the organisation of riotous demonstrations that succeeded in having the American anti-war film All Quiet on the Western Front banned in Germany. [8]
Goebbels began to keep a diary in October 1923, shortly before his 26th birthday, while unemployed and living in his parents' home at Rheydt in the Lower Rhine region. He had been given a diary as a present by Else Janke, a young woman (of part-Jewish background) with whom he had a turbulent and eventually unsuccessful relationship, and most of his early entries were about her.
[30] [31] Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels helped write the speech, [32] which was delivered in the Reichstag on 30 January 1939, the sixth anniversary of Hitler's seizure of power in 1933. [33] The speech lasted two [34] or two-and-a-half hours and dealt with both the foreign and domestic policies of the Nazi government. [20]
"The new Germany desires work and peace; speeches by Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler, the leader of the new Germany. With an introduction by Dr. Joseph Goebbels. (authorized English collection of Hitler's early 1933 speeches)". Berlin, Liebheit & Thiesen – via Internet Archive. Hitler, Adolf. "A Collection of Speeches in German"