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After completing his doctorate in 1921, Goebbels worked as a journalist and tried for several years to become a published author.

He wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, Michael, two verse plays, and quantities of romantic poetry.

In these works, he revealed the psychological damage his physical limitations ( having a clubbed foot, and, in a lesser sense being so far from the Aryan ideal, having brown eyes and dark brown hair and standing at only 5 ' 5 ) had caused.

" The very name of the hero, Michael, to whom he gave many autobiographical features, suggests the way his self-identification was pointing: a figure of light, radiant, tall, unconquerable ," and above all "' To be a soldier!

To stand sentinel!

One ought always to be a soldier ,' wrote Michael-Goebbels.

" Goebbels found another form of compensation in the pursuit of women, a lifelong compulsion he indulged " with extraordinary vigor and a surprising degree of success.

" His diaries reveal a long succession of affairs, before and after his marriage before a Protestant pastor in 1931 to Magda Quandt, with whom he had six children.