Doctor Goebbels: His Life and Death

by Roger Manvell, Heinrich Fraenkel

Overview

Quite possibly the most dangerous and intelligent member of the Nazi hierarchy, Joseph Goebbels’s flair for propaganda and spectacular organization ensured the fu¨hrer’s rise to power. As founder of the Reich Chamber of Culture, gauleiter of Berlin, and architect of complex machinery of modern totalitarian propaganda, Goebbels is considered one of the most evil figures of the twentieth century. It was through his understanding of the instruments of “public enlightenment” that the dictatorship was built and maintained. Through interviews with his friends and family and with information from his own unpublished diary, a remarkable picture of Goebbels emerges.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626369498
Publisher:	Skyhorse
Publication date:	06/09/2010
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	360
Sales rank:	394,222
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Roger Manvell was a critically acclaimed author who received access to new papers of eyewitness accounts of Joseph Goebbels. He co-wrote (with Heinrich Fraenkel) Heinrich Himmler, The Men Who Tried to Kill Hitler, and Doctor Goebbels.Heinrich Fraenkel was a critically acclaimed author who received access to new papers of eyewitness accounts of Joseph Goebbels. He co-wrote (with Roger Manvell) Heinrich Himmler, The Men Who Tried to Kill Hitler, and Doctor Goebbels.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

The First Years 1

"History's Children" 42

Berlin 68

The Fight for Power 95

Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment 123

"These Years of Triumph" 174

Total War 223

The Last Months 259

The Bunker 280

Notes 299

Appendix A Chief Events in the Life of Goebbels 313

Appendix B Plan of the Führerbunker 318

Bibliography 319

Index 323

Editorial Reviews

As the Nazi party's propaganda chief, Goebbels wielded great influence over the German government and held sway with Hitler himself, whom he helped catapult to power. For this 1960 volume, the authors spoke with many of Goebbels's remaining family and past acquaintances to provide an intimate portrait of the master of propaganda.

—Michael Rogers

Library Journal

Manvell and Fraenkel have produced...biographies of Goebbels, Goering, Himmler, and the men who tried to kill Hitler in 1944....To the best of my knowledge there are no better biographies in existence.

The New York Review of Books