General Information

Author/Creator

Thacker, Toby, 1957-

Language

English.

Published

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Physical Description

xiii, 407 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

"This book is an insightful new biography of Joseph Goebbels, Propaganda Minister of the Third Reich and one of the most important and troubling figures of the twentieth century. The first account to use all of Goebbels' surviving diaries, it sheds new light on his personality, private life and political convictions, as well as his relationship with Hitler"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects

Subject

Goebbels, Joseph, 1897-1945.

Germany. Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda.

Nazis > Biography.

Propaganda, German > History > 20th century.

Germany > Politics and government > 1918-1933.

Germany > Politics and government > 1933-1945.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Toby Thacker.

Content

"This awful waiting" -- "Starting to find firm ground" -- "The coming dictator" -- "You are the nobility of the Third Reich" -- "We will all three be good to one another" -- "These masses are what matter" -- "We are not suited to be executioners" -- An "indissoluble community of destiny" -- "This people's war must be carried through" -- "A life and death struggle" -- "We have done the right thing" -- "How distant and alien this beautiful world appears."

Library Special Collection

The Roger Griffin ComFas Collection

ISBN

9780230228894

0230228895

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	943.086092 THA		General Stacks	-

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