Joseph Goebbels: Life and Death

Thacker, Toby

ISBN 10: 0230228895 / ISBN 13: 9780230228894

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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408 pp. 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 Soviet Union, 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 culminated in his suicide, together his wife and six children, in Hitler's bunker in 1945.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Joseph Goebbels: Life and Death
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230228895
• ISBN 13: 9780230228894
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Nazi Germany

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Synopsis

An insightful new biography of Joseph Goebbels, Propaganda Minister of the 'Third Reich' and one of the most important and troubling figures of the twentieth century. The first account to use all of Goebbels' surviving diaries, it sheds new light on his personality, private life and political convictions, as well as his relationship with Hitler.

About the Author

TOBY THACKER  is Lecturer in Modern European History at Cardiff University, UK, and has published two previous books relating to Nazi Germany: Music after Hitler, 1945–1955  and The End of the Third Reich: Defeat, Denazification, and Nuremberg, 1944-1946.