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THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT ALSO TO LOOK AT KIP FENN, A MAJOR NOVEL ABOUT THE 21st CENTURY - freely available on this site Goebbels, Paul Josef ___ 1897-1945 ___ German ___ politician BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY Goebbels was born at Rheydt, a Catholic area of the Rhineland, with a club foot. At the start of World War I he volunteered for military service, but was rejected. He studied at universities in Bonn, Berlin and Heidelberg, and then worked as a journalist. He joined the Nazi party in 1924. By 1926 he had been appointed a party leader for the region of Berlin. A year later he launched 'Der Angriff' ('The Attack'). In 1928, he was elected to the Reichstag, and the following year he became the Nazi party propaganda chief. With Goebbels help, Hitler was elected leader in 1933, and Goebbels himself was made minister for propaganda and national enlightenment, a position he then held until his death, by suicide, in 1945. As a dedicated anti-Semite, Goebbels was strongly linked to the Nazi Final Solution policy, and, especially, the deportation of Jews from Berlin. In the final stages of the war, Hitler, before killing himself, appointed Goebbels Chancellor of Germany, but days later Goebbels and his wife killed themselves and their six children. One biography link DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS 1925-1926 1939-1941 ___ military political Nazism family self people historyeye WEB TEXT LINKS good extracts several extracts about the diary - a different perspective! ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS Hoover Institution Library and Archive ___ 1941-1943 Institute of Contemporary History SOME PUBLISHED TITLES The Early Goebbels Diaries The Goebbels Diaries 1939-41 The Goebbels Diaries: The Last Days May 2005 THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS Please email if you have any corrections, additions or comments.

IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.

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