Editing Joseph Goebbels (section)

== Trivia ==
*In ''The Book Thief'', there is a cat called '''Little Goebbels''', which was named after this man.
*Goebbels was born and raised in a Catholic household by his parents, Friedrich Goebbels and Katharina Odenhausen. Later in life Joseph turned his back on Roman Catholicism and claimed his religion to be Nazism.
*Goebbels was Chancellor of Germany for just one day as he committed suicide on May 1<sup>st</sup>, 1945; the day after [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]. He was succeeded by Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk.
*His favorite film was reportedly ''[[wikipedia:Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind (1939)]]''.
*Alongside [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]], Goebbels is credited with creating the concept of the "[[big lie]]" and popularizing its use as a propaganda technique.
*Despite having a Ph.D. in literature and philosophy, Goebbels struggled to get a job. Much of his own writing wasn't accepted by publishers including his autobiographical novel, "Michael". He also failed as a playwright as both his scripts were turned down by producers.
*Goebbels was one of the few certified intellectuals working in the upper echelons of the [[Nazi Party]], which was actually vehemently anti-intellectual. Goebbels wrote his doctoral thesis on 19th century romantic drama. Even his enemies admitted that he was certainly a very intelligent man. The problem of course was that the [[Nazi Party]] he was attached was more fond of killing intellectuals than working for them, so he had a constant love-hate relationship with himself (combined with the fact that as a man with a limp, he was not close to the Aryan physical ideal). After completing his doctorate in 1921, Goebbels worked as a journalist.
*Unlike [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]'s propaganda style of impassioned speeches that appeared to bare his soul, Goebbels' style was calculated and biting sarcasm. Also unlike [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]], on multiple occasions Goebbels admitted that he didn't believe in his own propaganda. [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] honestly believed that there was a vast global Jewish conspiracy out to destroy Germany. Goebbels knew there wasn't, but nonetheless he'd make vicious propaganda speeches to cynically manipulate the German people into a malleable state of hyper-paranoia, just to achieve his political goals.
*Goebbels and [[Hermann Göring]] hated each other.
*Joseph Goebbels once demanded that Adolf Hitler be expelled from the [[Nazi Party]], many years before [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]'s rise to power, when Goebbels was far more concerned with opposing capitalism than people of Jewish descent. Repeatedly urging the socialists and Nazis to unite against the capitalists, he was horrified by [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]'s antagonization of socialism as a "Jewish creation" and his assertion that the Soviet Union should be destroyed. At the time, [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] was still jailed and had finished work on ''Mein Kampf''. However, after his release, [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] granted Goebbels a private audience, offering to overlook Goebbels's previous support for socialism if he would accept Hitler's leadership. From this point on, Goebbels was completely loyal to [[Adolf Hitler]].
*He became the leader of the [[Nazi Party]] after [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]'s suicide but he committed suicide the very next day.
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