Curiosidades

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.

Held the position of Reich Chancellor for less than 24 hours, before his assisted suicide

Was the only member of the Nazi hierarchy to hold a degree (a PhD in Literature and History from the University of Heidelberg).

Goebbels and his wife were unfaithful to each other throughout their marriage. Hitler demanded that Joseph end his affair with Lída Baarová. Meanwhile, Magda had affairs with fellow Nazis Kurt Ludecke, and Karl Hanke.

Doctor of philosophy; received his PhD in 1921 at the age of 24

Because of some pro-communist statements, he was considered a member of the Nazi party's "left" wing

Although he later commanded the Nazi press, his initial applications to seven different newspapers for a reporter's position were all rejected.

Although his family was well-to-do, Goebbels ran away from home and lived in a slum.

His favorite film was reportedly ...E o Vento Levou (1939).

He privately held doubts about the wisdom of risking a protracted war against Britain and France by attacking Poland in 1939.

Brilliant speaker; regarded as second only to Adolf Hitler himself

Children with Magda Goebbels: Helga (b. 1 September 1932), Hilde (b. 15 April 1934), Helmut (b. 2 October 1935), Holde (19 February 1937), Hedda (b. 5 May 1938), & Heidi (b. 29 October 1940). All died on 1 May 1945, having been poisoned by their parents.

Before joining the Nazi party, he worked as a writer on a newspaper.

Is portrayed by John Bennett in Hitler: The Last Ten Days, Cliff Gorman in The Bunker, Justin Salenger in Hitler: The Rise of Evil, Ulrich Matthes in Downfall, Harvey Friedman in Valkyrie, Al Dineen in The Last Day of Joseph Goebbels (2009) and Sylvester Groth in Bastardos Inglórios (2009).

Nazi 'Gauleiter' (regional leader) of Berlin (1926-1945).

Nazi Party official.

Has clubfoot (right) made him unfit for military service in WW1.