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Admired the Russian people

He held so much influence in the Propaganda Ministry, that a special microphone with an on-air switch was installed in his office, allowing him to interrupt all German broadcasts whenever he considered it important.

Stepson: Harald Quandt; (b. November 1921 to Gunther & Magda Quandt (later Magda Goebbels)) perished in a plane crash in 1967 in southern France. Quandt's girlfriend was aboard the plane and also perished. The Quandt family today owns 50% of the BMW automobile company.

Nazi Reichsminister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (14 March 1933-30 April 1945).

Joseph and Magda Goebbels and their children moved into the Vorbunker, connected to the lower Führerbunker under the Reich Chancellery garden, in the waning days of the War with the intent of dying; Goebbels refused Adolf Hitler's order for them to leave. Magda told Traudl Junge that she and Goebbels had made the decision to kill their children as well so that they would not have to live with the shame of their father's role in the Nazi regime. She had told her former sister-in-law: "We have demanded monstrous things from the German people, treated other nations with pitiless cruelty. For this the victors will exact their full revenge", and wrote to her son by her first marriage that death was "the only possible honorable end". As a dentist gave each child a morphine injection, Magda and Hitler's personal doctor poisoned them with cyanide. Two hours later, she and Goebbels shot themselves, and their bodies were then burned with petrol. The dead bodies of the children and the charred remains of Goebbels and his wife were discovered by the Soviet Red Army on May 2, 1945.

Jokes cease to be funny when they deal with the holiest aspects of the nation.

Man is and remains an animal. Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.

Gentlemen, a hundred years from now, a wonderful colour film will be shown about these terrible days we are going through. Stand firm today, so that the audience does not whistle you down when you appear on the screen in a hundred years' time.

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

Just like a potato beetle destroys potatoes, the Jew destroys nations and peoples. There is only one solution: to deal radically with the danger.