Biography
Paul Joseph Goebbels (pronounced [ˈpaʊ̯l ˈjoːzɛf ˈɡœbl̩s] ; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German philologist and Nazi politician who was the Gauleiter (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler's closest and most devoted followers, known for his skills in public speaking and his deeply virulent antisemitism which was evident in his publicly voiced views. He advocated progressively harsher discrimination, including the extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust.
Goebbels, who aspired to be an author, obtained a doctorate in philology from the University of Heidelberg in 1921. He joined the Nazi Party in 1924, and worked with Gregor Strasser in its northern branch. He was appointed Gauleiter of Berlin in 1926, where he began to take an interest in the use of propaganda to promote the party and its programme. After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Goebbels's Propaganda Ministry quickly gained and exerted control over the news media, arts, and information in Nazi Germany. He was particularly adept at using the relatively new media of radio and film for propaganda purposes. Topics for party propaganda included antisemitism, attacks on the Christian churches, and (after the start of the Second World War) attempting to shape morale.
In 1943, Goebbels began to pressure Hitler to introduce measures that would produce "total war", including closing businesses not essential to the war effort, conscripting women into the labour force, and enlisting men in previously exempt occupations into the Wehrmacht. Hitler finally appointed him as Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War on 23 July 1944, whereby Goebbels undertook largely unsuccessful measures to increase the number of people available for armaments manufacture and the Wehrmacht.
As the war drew to a close and Nazi Germany faced defeat, Magda Goebbels and the Goebbels children joined Hitler in Berlin. They moved into the underground Vorbunker, part of Hitler's underground bunker complex, on 22 April 1945. Hitler committed suicide on 30 April. In accordance with Hitler's will, Goebbels succeeded him as Chancellor of Germany; he served one day in this post. The following day, Goebbels and his wife Magda committed suicide, after having poisoned their six children with a cyanide compound.
Filmography
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Movies 87
TV Shows 12
Writer 3
Producer 1
Filmmakers for the Prosecution (2023)
Magda Goebbels: First Lady of the Third Reich (2022)
The Wannsee Conference: The Documentary (2022)
The Secret Masonic Victory of World War Two (2022)
Belgique nazie (2021)
Blood Money: Inside the Nazi Economy (2021)
Leni Riefenstahl - The End of a Myth (2020)
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre (2020)
The Most Dangerous Man in Europe: Otto Skorzeny's After War (2020)
Winter Journey (2019)
Karajan: Portrait of a Maestro (2019)
The Phoney War (2019)
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour (2019)
Storm Front in Mayo (2019)
World War 2: Day by Day (2017)
Who was Hitler (2017)
The Clouzot Scandal (2017)
100 Years of the UFA (2017)
Europa: The Last Battle (2017)
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts (2017)
Hitler's Hollywood (2017)
Adolf Hitler They Said I Was A Dreamer (2017)
Dawn of the Nazis (2017)
Les Champions d'Hitler (2016)
From Caligari to Hitler (2015)
The Man Who Was There (2013)
Nazi Titanic (2012)
Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler (2011)
180 (2011)
Hitler's bodyguard (2010)
De opkomst van Adolf Hitler (2009)
Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility (2009)
Hitler's Hidden City (2009)
Warner at War (2008)
Stealing Klimt (2007)
Laughing With Hitler (2006)
Die Chroniken des Adolf Hitler (2006)
Hitler's War (2005)
Death in the Bunker: The True Story of Hitler's Downfall (2004)
The Hidden Führer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality (2004)
Days That Shook the World (2003)
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song (2002)
The Tramp and the Dictator (2002)
The Joel Files (2001)
Urlaub im Dritten Reich - Kraft durch Freude (2001)
Hitlers Frauen (2001)
WWII: The Lost Color Archives (2000)
100 Jahre - Der Countdown (1999)
The Hindenburg (1996)
The Century of Warfare [DVD Release] (1994)
The Century of Warfare (1993)
How the Nazis Came to Power (1991)
Joseph Goebbels gesehen von dem UFA-Star Lida Baarova (1991)
Götterdämmerung 1945: Die letzten 10 Wochen des Dritten Reiches (1991)
Bombenstimmung - Unterhaltung unterm Hakenkreuz (1987)
Reichsautobahn (1986)
Zelig (1983)
Genocide (1982)
Hitler: A Career (1977)
Swastika (1974)
Double Headed Eagle: Hitler's Rise to Power 1918-1933 (1973)
Triumph Over Violence (1965)
Puppets (1964)
Secrets of the Nazi Criminals (1963)
Look at Life: Eagle's Nest (1962)
Seit 5.45 wird zurückgeschossen (1961)
Das Dritte Reich (1960)
Hitler an der Macht (1960)
Marionetten (1958)
The Twisted Cross (1956)
Adolf Hitler - Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer: Dokumente der Zeitgeschichte (1953)
The Century Is Fifty (1950)
Distant Journey (1949)
Crusade in Europe (1949)
Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today (1948)
Will It Happen Again? (1948)
Nuremberg Trials (1946)
The Last Parteitag in Nuremberg (1946)
Hitler Lives (1945)
The Nazi Plan (1945)
Das Leben geht weiter (1945)
Kolberg (1945)
Don't Be a Sucker! (1943)
Desert Victory (1943)
The War for Men's Minds (1943)
Words for Battle (1941)
Request Concert (1940)
The Fight For Peace (1939)
Ich habe meine Pflicht getan (1939)
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938)
Word and Deed (1938)
Inside Nazi Germany (1938)
Triumph of the Will (1935)
The Victory of Faith (1933)
Germany Awakens - A Document of the Rebirth of Germany (1933)
Hitler's Flight Over Germany (1932)
Der Nürnberger Parteitag der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei (1929)
The Year 1939
Die Deutsche Wochenschau
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GenderMale
Birthday1897-10-29
Deathday1945-05-01 (47 years old)
Birth NamePaul Joseph Goebbels
Birth PlaceRheydt, Germany
Religionlapsed Catholic
Height1.65-meter
RelationshipsMagda Goebbels (1931-12-19 - 1945-05-01)
ChildrenHoldine Kathrin Goebbels, Helmut Christian Goebbels, Hildegard Traudel Goebbels, Helga Susanne Goebbels, Hedwig Johanna Goebbels, Heidrun Elisabeth Goebbels
CitizenshipsNazi Germany
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