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24 unusual facts about Joseph Goebbels


Die Deutsche Wochenschau

After the Nazi Machtergreifung in 1933, the production was supervised and censored by the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda under Joseph Goebbels, who had realized the enormous significance of newsreels for his propaganda purposes.

Die Reise nach Tilsit

Magda Goebbels ostentiously left the premiere, owing to the accidental resemblance between it and her own situation, where Joseph Goebbels carried on with the Czech actress Lída Baarová.

Ernst vom Rath

Joseph Goebbels had been intending to turn the trial into Nazi propaganda about Jewish conspiracy, but the homosexuality accusations threatened to humiliate the Nazis.

Felix Timmermans

He also attended meetings of the Europäische Schriftsteller-Vereinigung (European Writers' League), which was initiated by Joseph Goebbels.

Haim Arlosoroff

One involves the Nazi leader Joseph Goebbels: During the first world war, Magda Behrend, who later became the wife of Joseph Goebbels, met and became close friends with Lisa Arlosoroff, Haim Arlosoroff's sister.

Heinkel He 113

In 1940, Joseph Goebbels publicised the fact that a new fighter was entering service with the Luftwaffe.

Japanese Festival Music

Joseph Goebbels assigned the Japanese commission to Germany's most prominent composer, Richard Strauss.

John Bean

A journalist commented in 1962 that Jordan was becoming the British Adolf Hitler, Bean jokingly responded to the Daily Mail reporter that that made him "the British Joseph Goebbels".

Kolmannen valtakunnan vieraana

Whilst in Germany, Paavolainen met Nazi politicians, writers, young enthusiasts, and intellectuals and attended an assembly of the female wing of NSDAP where Joseph Goebbels was addressing the female audience.

Left Review

"there is a line at which criticism ends and destructive attacks begin, and we regret that this line separates us both from Dr. Goebbels and from Leon Trotsky.".

Lily Renée

He had been a political cartoonist, and after drawing a caricature of Joseph Goebbels, the Gestapo showed up at his house to arrest him.

London Can Take It!

Joseph Goebbels is quoted as saying that the bombings are having a great effect on British morale.

Mr Bennett Goes to Town

Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels was furious with this mistake and demanded to know why the scene had not been re-shot.

Olympische Hymne

Lubahn's word Rechtsgewalt in the last of the three stanzas was replaced (over Lubahn's objection) with the word Eidestreu by Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels who found Lubahn's usage ambiguous and possibly democratic.

Peter Longerich

His major research interests include the history of the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the Second World War, the Holocaust, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels.

Philippe Henriot

Seeking to shape the perceptions of the French government and German occupation, and to destroy popular support for the Résistance, Henriot was given the nickname of the "French Goebbels".

Plane Daffy

Outraged, Hitler declares "Dot iss no military zecret!" Goebbels and Göring concur -- "Ja. Efferybody knows dot!"—then shoot themselves in the heads after receiving Hitler's angry glare.

R v Steane

At the outbreak of war, he was arrested, assaulted and interned before being sent for by Joseph Goebbels who asked him to broadcast in English on Germany's behalf.

Rosita Serrano

Due to the intercession of Joseph Goebbels, she got gigs in the radio show Wunschkonzert für die Wehrmacht (musical request programme for the Wehrmacht).

S. Srikanta Sastri

This incidentally was mentioned along with few passing remarks on Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan's supposed anti-colonial stance on Berlin Radio by Adolf Hitler's propaganda chief-Joseph Goebbels.

Saarländischer Rundfunk

In 1935, when the Saar rejoined Germany, the Saar station became Reichssender Saarbrücken, part of Reichs-Rundfunk GmbH Berlin under the control of Joseph Goebbels's Propagandaministerium.

Schindler Elevator Corporation

The younger Klaus was courting then-prominent socialite Eva Ritschel (sister of Magda Ritschell who would later marry Joseph Goebbels) and through the political channels she provided he managed to save the company.

The Empty Mirror

The film is a fictional drama set within the scope of a delusional fantasy; that attempts to explore a psychotic scenario surrounding Adolf Hitler (Norman Rodway), as he interacts with Eva Braun (Camilla Soeberg), Hermann Göring (Glenn Shadix), Joseph Goebbels (Joel Grey), as well as psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (Peter Michael Goetz) during a dictation of his memoirs to a military typist (Doug McKeon), while held up in his notorious withdrawn bunker.

The Enemy Below

Jürgens was imprisoned by order of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels during World War II.


Academy for German Law

The academy's members were prominent representatives of politics, business and academia, including Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels, Carl Bosch, Friedrich Flick, Carl Schmitt, and Hans Carl Nipperdey; its presidents were Hans Frank (1933—1943) and Otto Georg Thierack (1942—1945).

Elena Rzhevskaya

The corpses of Goebbels and his wife Magda were found and identified, and a subsequent report about it was openly publicized.

Erich Retzlaff

Impressed by these earlier photographic studies of German ‘Volkdom’, and to coincide with the year of their coming to power, the National Socialists employed Retzlaff to produce portraits of party notables such as Rudolf Hess, Gregor Strasser, Joseph Goebbels and Ernst Röhm; to be published in a special edition Wegbereiter und Vorkämpfer für das neue Deutschland pioneers and champions of the new Germany (1933).

Giulio Cogni

In 1941 Giulio Cogni went to Weimar in Nazi Germany where he met collaborating European writers and joined the "Europäische Schriftstellervereinigung" (i.e. European Writers' League) which was founded by Joseph Goebbels.

Hans Carossa

Hans Carossa became president of the Europäische Schriftstellervereinigung (i.e. European Writers' League), which was founded by Joseph Goebbels in 1941/42, vice president was Giovanni Papini.

Horst Giese

He performed in some 50 films and television productions, and is known for his portrayals of Joseph Goebbels in several films, including in the five-part series Liberation, the two-part Bulgarian production Anvil or Hammer and in the Czechoslovak comedy Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea.

Julie Dreyfus

Dreyfus appeared in Vinyan in 2008 and in Tarantino's war epic Inglourious Basterds in 2009, as Francesca Mondino, a fictional French interpreter and mistress for Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.

Nordstern

Joseph Goebbels identified its designated name as Nordstern in his diary entry of 9 July 1941, as directly told to him by Hitler.

Picture Post

In the 26 November 1938 issue a picture story was run entitled "Back to the Middle Ages": photographs of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Göring were contrasted with the faces of those scientists, writers and actors they were persecuting.

Viktor de Kowa

The film idealized the education of the German youth in National Political Institutes of Education, which earned de Kowa an entry on the Gottbegnadeten list to evade his Wehrmacht conscription, though Minister Goebbels was disillusioned with his directing.

Wandlitz

In the woods North East of the village Wandlitz is the small Bogensee with a former summer house of Joseph Goebbels, later part of the academy of the Free German Youth organization.