Bibliograph

Goebbels, a biography, Peter Longerich ; translated by Alan Bance, Jeremy Noakes, and Lesley Sharpe

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Goebbels, a biography, Peter Longerich ; translated by Alan Bance, Jeremy Noakes, and Lesley Sharpe

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 717-756) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Goebbels

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

869262446

Responsibility statement

Peter Longerich ; translated by Alan Bance, Jeremy Noakes, and Lesley Sharpe

Sub title

a biography

Summary

"As a young man, Joseph Goebbels was a budding narcissist with constant need of approval. Through political involvement, he found personal affirmation within the German National Socialist Party. In this comprehensive volume, Peter Longerich documents Goebbels' descent into antisemitism and ideology and ascent through the ranks of the Nazi party, where he became an integral member Hitler's inner circle and where he shaped a brutal campaign of Nazi propaganda. In life and in his grisly family suicide, Goebbels was one of Hitler's most loyal accolytes. Though powerful in the party and in wartime Germany, Longerich's Goebbels is a man dogged by insecurities and consumed by his fierce adherence to the Nazi cause. Longerich engages and challenges the careful self-portrait that Goebbels left behind in his diaries, and, as he delves deep into the mind of Hitler's master propagandist, Longerich discovers first-hand how the Nazi message was conceived. This complete portrait of the man behind the message is sure to become a standard for historians and students of the holocaust for years to come"--, Provided by publisher

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