In which town on the Lower Rhine was Joseph Goebbels born in 1897?
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Rheydt
Rheydt is now part of Mönchengladbach. Goebbels grew up in a strictly Catholic working-class family.
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Foto: Heinrich Hoffmann (Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1968-101-20A) · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Wikimedia Commons
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Joseph Goebbels
Portrait by Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler's personal photographer.
In which subject did Goebbels receive his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1921?
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German literature
His thesis dealt with the Romantic playwright Wilhelm von Schütz. His supervisor, Max von Waldberg, was of Jewish descent.
In which city was Goebbels the Nazi Party's Gauleiter from 1926?
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Berlin
The party was weak in the capital at the time; Goebbels relied on provocation, brawls and his newspaper “Der Angriff”.
Which newly created ministry did Goebbels head from March 1933?
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the Propaganda Ministry
Through the Reich Chamber of Culture it also decided who was allowed to work as an artist, journalist or musician at all.
Where in Berlin did Goebbels give his speech at the book burning on 10 May 1933?
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Opernplatz
Students burned about 20,000 books there, including works by Heinrich Heine, Erich Kästner and Sigmund Freud.
💡 Did you know? Today an underground, empty library by Micha Ullman on Bebelplatz commemorates the event.
Which cheap wireless set did Goebbels' ministry distribute by the million from 1933?
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the Volksempfänger
It cost 76 Reichsmarks; people nicknamed it “Goebbels' snout”.
💡 Did you know? From 1939 listening to foreign stations was banned and could be punished with prison.
Which slogan did Goebbels proclaim in Berlin's Sportpalast in February 1943?
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total war
The speech came shortly after the defeat at Stalingrad. The audience had been carefully selected and the cheering staged for the newsreel.
What kind of record did Goebbels keep almost daily from 1923 to 1945?
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a diary
The roughly 7,000 surviving pages are a key source on the Nazi leadership: though written with a later publication in mind.
Which office did Hitler give Goebbels in his political testament?
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Reich Chancellor
Goebbels held it for just one day; Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz became Reich President.
How many of their children did Joseph and Magda Goebbels kill in the Führerbunker before taking their own lives?
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six
The children were between four and twelve years old; on 1 May 1945 they were sedated and poisoned with cyanide.
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