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Goebbels and some
Goebbels, although he continued to show " leftish " tendencies in some of his actions ( such as co-operating with the Communists in supporting the Berlin transport workers ' strike in November 1932 ), was totally loyal to Hitler in his struggle with the Strassers, which culminated in Otto ’ s expulsion from the party in July 1930.
Goebbels also resisted the complete Nazification of the arts because he knew that the masses must be allowed some respite from slogans and propaganda.
The result of Goebbels ’ incitement was Kristallnacht, the " Night of Broken Glass ," during which the S. A. and Nazi Party went on a rampage of anti-Jewish violence and destruction, killing at least 90 and maybe as many as 200 people, destroying over a thousand synagogues and hundreds of Jewish businesses and homes, and dragging some 30, 000 Jews off to concentration camps, where at least another thousand died before the remainder were released after several months of brutal treatment.
Göring and some other Nazi leaders were furious at Goebbels ’ actions, about which they had not been consulted.
By 1936, although he was not nearly as corrupt as some other senior Nazis, such as Göring and Robert Ley, Goebbels was earning 300, 000 Reichsmarks a year in " fees " for writing in his own newspaper, Der Angriff ( The Attack ), as well as his ministerial salary and many other sources of income.
This view was shared by some other members of the Nazi party, notably Joseph Goebbels and Fritz Hippler.
Goebbels had recently suffered humiliation for the ineffectiveness of his propaganda campaign during the Sudeten crisis, and was in some disgrace over an affair with the Czech actress Lída Baarová.
The final line of this original and some later forms ends with the word play that Goebbels had " no balls ".
( Goebbels himself maintained some personal control over every single film made in Nazi Europe.
A few weeks after the opening of the exhibition, Goebbels ordered a second and more thorough scouring of German art collections ; inventory lists indicate that the artworks seized in this second round, combined with those gathered prior to the exhibition, amounted to some 16, 558 works.
On the other hand, Joseph Goebbels assembled some of the now jobless musicians from Germany and conquered countries into a big band called Charlie and His Orchestra to perform Nazified versions of popular swing hits to be played in propaganda broadcasts.
It was from the university's library that some 20, 000 books by " degenerates " and opponents of the regime were taken to be burned on May 10 of that year in the Opernplatz ( now the Bebelplatz ) for a demonstration protected by the SA that also featured a speech by Joseph Goebbels.
The Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels had a deformity caused by a botched operation for the bacterial infection osteomyelitis, which some mistook for clubfoot.
Some of these policies were opposed by Hitler, who thought they were too radical and too alienating from parts to the German people ( middle class and some Nazi-supporting nationalist industrialists in particular ), and the Strasser faction was defeated at the Bamberg Conference ( 1926 ), with Joseph Goebbels joining Hitler.
German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels used the leaked plan, with some success, to encourage the German people to persevere in their war efforts so that their country would not be turned into a " potato field.
Additionally, Goebbels had been marked as a client by some.
Usually, such accounts stopped after the death of Hitler ( or, in some cases, Goebbels ).
He translated the Goebbels Diaries, 1939-41 ( 1982 ) into English and also wrote some novels set in Germany.
She declined, falling sick, and angering Goebbels ; she later became a newspaper journalist with Nazi publications where she wrote some articles on Jewish influence over U. S. news and elite opinion.

Goebbels and others
Like others who were later prominent in the Third Reich, Goebbels came into contact with the Nazi Party in 1923, during the campaign of resistance to the French occupation of the Ruhr.
In 1992 Neil was criticised by Anti-Nazi groups and historian Hugh Trevor-Roper among others for employing, as a translator of the diaries of Joseph Goebbels, the Holocaust denier David Irving.
However, Joseph Goebbels, Bormann and others preferred to wait until the end of World War II, to avoid undermining German morale in a heavily Catholic area.
Ensemble Modern tours widely and has released many recordings, performing works by such composers as Charles Ives, Olivier Messiaen, Kurt Weill, Edgard Varèse, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Conlon Nancarrow, Steve Reich, George Benjamin, Friedrich Goldmann, Elliott Sharp, Roberto Carnevale, Frank Zappa, Anthony Braxton, Heiner Goebbels, Harrison Birtwistle, Arnold Schoenberg, Hanspeter Kyburz, Pierre Boulez and many others.

Goebbels and believed
Hitler, who had long believed Himmler was second only to Joseph Goebbels in loyalty — calling Himmler " der treue Heinrich " ( the loyal Heinrich )— flew into a rage about this apparent betrayal.
Ronald Howard was convinced the order to shoot down Howard's airliner came directly from Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda in Nazi Germany, who had been ridiculed in one of Howard's films and who believed Howard to be the most dangerous British propagandist.
During the war most Germans actually believed that this station was in fact a German radio station and even gained the recognition of Germany's propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels.
Hitler and Goebbels believed that film was a very potent tool for molding public opinion.

Goebbels and works
Beginning during 1937 about twenty thousand works from German museums were confiscated as " degenerate " by a committee directed by Joseph Goebbels.
On 10 May 1933, the German government, under the initiative of the Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, banned and publicly burned Remarque's works.
In the same year, Valium also completed The Survivor, a monumental painting centered around a Joseph Goebbels family picture that was shown at Gallery Clark ( Montreal ) along with Les Curés Malades, and several other works.
This fit in with other works of anti-British propaganda of the time such as My life for Ireland and Der Fuchs von Glenarvon ; however, the scenes of British and French panic and desperation undermined this effect, while scenes of steerage passengers separated by crew members and desperately searching for their loved ones through locked gates and a chain link fence bore an uncanny resemblance to what was happening in German concentration camps during that time, contributing to its ban by Goebbels.

Goebbels and such
Here, Goebbels discovered his talent as a propagandist, writing such tracts as 1926's The Second Revolution and Lenin or Hitler.
Goebbels insisted that German high culture must be allowed to carry on, both for reasons of international prestige and to win the loyalty of the upper middle classes, who valued art forms such as opera and the symphony.
As a man of education and culture, Goebbels had once mocked the " primitive " anti-Semitism of Nazis such as Julius Streicher.
In his capacity as Gauleiter of Berlin, and thus as de facto ruler of the capital ( although there was still officially an Oberbürgermeister and city council ), Goebbels maintained constant pressure on the city ’ s large Jewish community, forcing them out of business and professional life and placing obstacles in the way of their being able to live normal lives, such as banning them from public transport and city facilities.
As Joachim Fest notes, Goebbels seemed to take a grim pleasure in the destruction of Germany ’ s cities by the Allied bombing offensive: " It was, as one of his colleagues confirmed, almost a happy day for him when famous buildings were destroyed, because at such time he put into his speeches that ecstatic hatred which aroused the fanaticism of the tiring workers and spurred them to fresh efforts.
However, the inability of Himmler to persuade Hitler to cease his support of Bormann, the defection of SS generals such as Obergruppenführer Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the Chief of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt and his powerful subordinate Gruppenführer Heinrich Müller, head of the Gestapo, to Bormann, soon persuaded Goebbels to align himself with the Secretary to the Führer at the end of 1944, thus accepting his subordinate position.
By this time, the best Goebbels could do to reassure the German people that victory was still possible was to make vague promises that " miracle weapons " such as the Me 262 jet aircraft, the Type XXI U-boat, and the V-2 rocket could somehow retrieve the military situation.
Even if he was willing and able to escape Berlin and reach the north, it was unlikely that Dönitz, whose only concern was to negotiate a settlement with the western Allies that would save Germany from Soviet occupation, would want such a notorious figure as Goebbels heading his government.
Voss later recounted: " When Goebbels learned that Hitler had committed suicide, he was very depressed and said: ' It is a great pity that such a man is not with us any longer.
Some National Socialists ( such as Goebbels ) held Spengler as an intellectual precursor but he was ostracised after 1933 for his pessimism about Germany's and Europe's future, his refusal to support Nazi ideas of racial superiority, and his critical work The Hour of Decision.
The Berchtesgadener Hof Hotel was a hotel where famous visitors stayed, such as Eva Braun, Erwin Rommel, Joseph Goebbels, and Heinrich Himmler, as well as Neville Chamberlain and David Lloyd George.
Some condemned his music as " degenerate " ( largely on the basis of his early, sexually charged operas such as Sancta Susanna ), and in December 1934, during a speech at the Berlin Sports Palace, Germany ’ s Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels publicly denounced Hindemith as an " atonal noisemaker.
Moynihan's main point there is that it is misleading and incorrect to imply that any such opponent is therefore somehow " similar to " or " analogous to " ( hint: think " as bad as ") either Hitler or Goebbels.
During this time he was asked to present radio portraits of the main historical personalities influencing Germany from Bismarck to World War II, including such senior figures of the Nazi regime as Heinrich Himmler and Joseph Goebbels.
Goebbels ' attempts to fill the space between theatre and opera left blank due to traditional genre borderline drawing has led to projects such as Schwarz auf Weiss ( Black on White, 1996 ) or Die Wiederholung ( The Repetition, 1997 ).
He became a favorite of high-level Nazi leaders such as Joseph Goebbels, whose diary entries from March and April 1945 have many words of praise for Schörner and his methods.
'" The approving Goebbels continued with, " Naturally such methods are effective.
Gregg spoke German fluently, and during the war worked for the BBC German service, to such good effect that Goebbels assumed he must be a German traitor.
Magda resorted to asking Hitler for permission to divorce Goebbels, and Baarová was eventually sent away, while Goebbels was in such disgrace that for a time it was rumored that he might be sent to Japan as German ambassador.
Goebbels ' diary makes no mention of such a meeting and Lang's passport also shows that he did not leave until June and made repeated trips between France and Germany throughout 1933.

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