Joseph Goebbels

A German politician, senior Nazi Party official, propagandist, and philologist. As one of Adolf Hitler's most loyal close associates, he served as Gauleiter of Berlin from 1926 to 1945 and became the Reich Propaganda Leader of the Nazi Party in 1930. In March 1933, he was appointed Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, extensively controlling information and cultural fields in Germany, including newspapers, radio, film, publishing, theater, and music. He aggressively promoted antisemitic propaganda, driving campaigns to gain public acceptance for the Nazi regime's persecution of Jews and its wartime policies. As the war effort deteriorated during World War II, he advocated total war, urging the continuation of the war effort through speeches such as the Sportpalast speech in 1943. In 1944, he was appointed Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War. Following Hitler's suicide on April 30, 1945, Goebbels served as Chancellor of Germany for just one day in accordance with Hitler's last will, before committing suicide with his wife Magda the following day.

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1897	Birth of Joseph Goebbels (Period: October 29, 1897, Location: Mönchengladbach, Germany)
1914	World War I (Age: 16 years old, Period: 1914–1918, Location: Western Front, Belgium and France) Deemed Unfit for Military Service During World War I (Age: 16 years old, Period: 1914, Location: Germany)
1922	Earning a Doctorate from Heidelberg University (Paul Joseph Goebbels, Age: 24 years old, Period: 1922, Location: Heidelberg, Germany)
1923	Beer Hall Putsch (Age: 26 years old, Period: November 8–9, 1923, Location: Munich, Germany)
1926	Appointment as Gauleiter of Berlin (Paul Joseph Goebbels, Age: 28 years old, Period: 1926, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1927	Founding and Editing of "Der Angriff" (Age: 29 years old, Period: 1927–1935, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1928	Election to the Reichstag (Paul Joseph Goebbels, Age: 30 years old, Period: 1928, Location: Berlin, Reichstag)
1930	Appointment as Reich Propaganda Leader of the Nazi Party (Paul Joseph Goebbels, Age: 32 years old, Period: 1930, Location: Berlin and all of Germany)
1931	Marriage (Paul Joseph Goebbels, Magda Goebbels, Age: 34 years old, Period: December 19, 1931, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1932	Directing Hitler's Presidential Campaign Propaganda (Paul Joseph Goebbels, Age: 34 years old, Period: 1932, Location: All of Germany)
1933	Forced Alignment (Gleichschaltung) of German Culture (Age: 35 years old, Period: 1933 onwards, Location: All of Germany) Establishment of the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda and Appointment as Propaganda Minister (Paul Joseph Goebbels, Age: 35 years old, Period: March 13, 1933, Location: Berlin, Germany) Book Burning in Germany (Age: 35 years old, Period: Spring–Summer 1933 (centered on May 10, 1933), Location: Berlin and various German cities)
1938	Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass, Age: 41 years old, Period: November 9–10, 1938, Location: Germany, Austria, Sudetenland, etc.) Involvement in Kristallnacht (Age: 41 years old, Period: November 9–10, 1938, Location: Germany and Austria)
1939	World War II (Age: 41 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: UK, France, North Africa, Mediterranean, Atlantic, etc.) Propaganda Direction During World War II (Age: 41 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: Germany and German-occupied territories)
1943	Sportpalast Speech (Paul Joseph Goebbels, Age: 45 years old, Period: February 18, 1943, Location: Berlin Sportpalast, Germany) Propaganda Exploiting the Katyn Massacre (Age: 45 years old, Period: April 1943 – 1943, Location: Katyn (near present-day Smolensk, Russia) and Germany)
1944	Appointment as Plenipotentiary for Total War (Paul Joseph Goebbels, Age: 46 years old, Period: July 23, 1944, Location: Germany)
1945	Battle of Berlin and Collapse of the Nazi Regime (Age: 47 years old, Period: April 16 – May 2, 1945, Location: Berlin, Germany) Move to the Führerbunker (Age: 47 years old, Period: April 22, 1945, Location: Berlin, Führerbunker) Assuming the Office of Chancellor of Germany (Paul Joseph Goebbels, Age: 47 years old, Period: April 30 – May 1, 1945, Location: Berlin, Führerbunker) Death of Joseph Goebbels (Age: 47 years old, Period: May 1, 1945) Suicide and the End of the Nazi Regime (Age: 47 years old, Period: May 1, 1945, Location: Berlin, near Führerbunker)

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Nazi Germany	Adolf Hitler Paul von Hindenburg Hermann Göring Joseph Goebbels Heinrich Himmler Rudolf Hess Martin Ludwig Bormann Joachim von Ribbentrop Albert Speer Hermann Wilhelm Göring Paul Joseph Goebbels
Weimar Republic	Friedrich Ebert Gustav Stresemann Wilhelm Marx Heinrich Brüning Hermann Müller Friedrich Naumann Matthias Erzberger Walther Rathenau
German Anti-Nazis	Dietrich Bonhoeffer Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg Hans Oster Ludwig Beck Carl Friedrich Goerdeler Erwin von Witzleben Hans Scholl Sophie Scholl Alexander Schmorell Christoph Probst
Warsaw Ghetto	Mordechai Anielewicz Marek Edelman Tuvia Bielski Abba Kovner Henryk Goldszmit Emanuel Ringelblum
Arts & Music	Pablo Picasso Paul Klee Wassily Kandinsky Käthe Schmidt Oskar Kokoschka Egon Schiele Arnold Schoenberg Alban Berg Anton Webern

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