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Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and philologist who served as Gauleiter of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler's closest and most devoted followers and was known for his public speaking and extreme antisemitism.
Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda killed themselves on the 1st of May 1945 in the garden of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, after their six children were poisoned with a cyanide compound. He died one day after serving as Chancellor of Germany, the post Hitler named him to in his will.
As Reich Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels centralised Nazi control over news, media, arts, radio, and film in Germany. He created chambers that excluded anyone whose views opposed the regime, required journalists to follow National Socialism, and pushed cheap radio sets so party broadcasts reached almost every German.
Joseph Goebbels advocated progressively harsher discrimination against Jews and supported their extermination. He helped instigate the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, ordered German Jews to wear a yellow badge, and his diary shows he was aware Jews were being exterminated and completely supported it, defending it publicly.
Joseph Goebbels was born on the 29th of October 1897 in Rheydt, an industrial town near Mönchengladbach in Germany. His parents were Catholics of modest means; his father was a factory clerk and his mother came from a Dutch village near the German border.
The Sportpalast speech, delivered by Joseph Goebbels on the 18th of February 1943, was a passionate demand that his audience commit to total war. It carried a strong antisemitic element, and during the live broadcast he accidentally began to mention the extermination of the Jews, words later omitted from the published text.