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A Short Biography of Paul Joseph Goebbels

Author Name:

Paul Joseph Goebbels

Born As:

Paul Joseph Goebbels

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Born:

29 Oct 1897

Died:

01 May 1945




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Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda - 1933 - 1945.
                          
                          
His family followed the Catholic faith, and Goebbels was educated at a Franciscan Brothers Christian school. Goebbels father was a factory clerk, his mother a farmhand. Hans  - 1893–1947, Konrad  - 1895–1949, Elisabeth  - 1901–1915 and Maria  - born 1910, later married to the German filmmaker Max W. Kimmich.                           
                          
Goebbels was the chief architect of the Kristallnacht attack on the German Jews, which historians consider to be the beginning of the Final Solution, leading towards the genocide of the Holocaust.

Goebbels had osteomyelitis as a child, and wore a metal brace and special shoe because of a shortened leg.

Goebbels at times misrepresented himself as a war veteran and his disability as a war wound.

Goebbels was rejected for military service in World War I.

Goebbels studied literature and philosophy at the universities of Bonn, Würzburg, Freiburg and Heidelberg, and wrote a doctoral thesis on the 18th century romantic novelist Wilhelm von Schütz. His two most influential teachers, Friedrich Gundolf and his doctoral supervisor at Heidelberg, Max Freiherr von Waldberg, were Jews.

Amongst other things, Goebbels maintained constant pressure on the city’s large Jewish community, forcing them out of business and professional life and placing obstacles in the way of their being able to live normal lives, such as banning them from public transport and city facilities.