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Joseph Goebbels was one of Adolf Hitler's most loyal acolytes. But how did this club-footed son of a factory worker rise from obscurity to become Hitler's malevolent minister of propaganda, most trusted lieutenant and personally anointed successor?
In this definitive one-volume biography, renowned German Holocaust historian Peter Longerich sifts throughâŠ
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Joseph Goebbels was the Minister for Propaganda in Hitlerâs Nazi Germany, and is one of the central characters in my latest novel. I recommend Longerichâs biography of this complex man in its own right, and not just because I plundered it for information when writing my novel.
Scholarly but written in a lively style, the book will appeal to anyone interested in what made the âmaster of the dark arts of propagandaâ tick. Drawing heavily on Goebbelsâ own diaries (which run to an astonishing twenty-nine volumes), Longerich has written the definitive history of this complex and fascinating man, who wasâŠ
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