Joseph Goebbels expressed a common view when he confided to his diary that " Von Ribbentrop bought his name, he married his money, and he swindled his way into office ".

Goebbels, dictating for his diary, repeatedly expressed his admiration of Hanke during the spring of 1945.

Hitler expressed his frustration and anger at the mixed response from the German media and insisted that, instead of openly calling for violence against the Jews as Goebbels had in instigating the pogrom, Nazi propaganda should " elucidate events of foreign policy " in such a way that the German people themselves would call for violence against the Jews.

It was a constant annoyance to Goebbels that, at a time when Germany was fighting for its life on the eastern front, there were still 40, 000 Jews in Berlin.

The ultimate responsibility for this lay with Hitler, as Goebbels well knew, referring in his diary to a " crisis of leadership ," but Goebbels was too much under Hitler ’ s spell ever to challenge his power.

Joseph Goebbels: Life and Death, Palgrave Macmillan ; biography based partly on his diary from 1923 to 1945 released in recent years from former Soviet archives.

Goebbels wrote in his diary:

Joseph Goebbels described in his diary that Belgium and the Holland were Heim im Reich in 1940.

Hitler had announced that Posen must be held at all costs, and Greiser was now viewed as a deserter and coward, particularly by Goebbels who wrote the following in his diary on 2 March 1945, in which he labeled Greiser " a real disgrace to the ( Nazi ) Party.

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.

At that time, Joseph Goebbels wrote in his diary that failure of the offensive was likely.

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.

Furthermore, Ian Kershaw has pointed out that there are several diary entries by Joseph Goebbels in late 1941, in which Goebbels writes that " the Führer's prophecy is coming true in a most terrible way.

Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels wrote in his diary on 1 February 1939: " I am very enthusiastic and so is the Führer.

It was shown that there was no such memorandum but that the reference was to Goebbels ' diary entry of March 7, 1942.

Lying around for anyone to pick up were such historic items as Hitler's appointment book, Martin Bormann's personal diary, the battle log for Berlin, and segments of Joseph Goebbels ' diary.

Jäckel also argued that the entry in Joseph Goebbels's diary on March 27, 1942 mentioning the Führer's " Prophecy " was coming true was a sign that Hitler had ordered the Holocaust, and accused Irving of dishonesty in claiming that there was no sign in the Goebbels diary that Hitler knew of the Holocaust.

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.

Göring and some other Nazi leaders were furious at Goebbels ’ actions, about which they had not been consulted.

Goebbels and Speer were among the few Nazi leaders who were under no illusions about Germany ’ s dire situation.

Later on 1 May, Vice-Admiral Hans-Erich Voss saw Goebbels for the last time: " Before the breakout the bunker began, about ten generals and officers, including myself, went down individually to Goebbels's shelter to say goodbye.

After the war, Rear-Admiral Michael Musmanno, a U. S. naval officer and judge, published an account apparently based on eye-witness testimony: " At about 8: 15 pm, Goebbels arose from the table, put on his hat, coat and gloves and, taking his wife's arm, went upstairs to the garden.

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.

Beginning during 1937 about twenty thousand works from German museums were confiscated as " degenerate " by a committee directed by Joseph Goebbels.

" The Israeli historian Saul Friedländer believes that Goebbels had personal reasons for wanting to bring about Kristallnacht.

Soon after this, Hitler was made aware of the problem-by whom it is not clear, but it is probable that the matter had reached the ears of Martin Bormann, head of the Party Chancellery and Hitler's private secretary, who thought it his duty to inform Hitler that Goebbels had not told him the whole truth about the Grynszpan case.

As the years passed, despite the best attempts of Goebbels and the Propaganda Ministry with its formidable domestic information control, there can be little doubt from diaries and periodicals of the time that information about the harshness and cruelty became progressively known to the German public.

Speer described how Joseph Goebbels ' wife, Magda, complained about her husband's infidelity, and how she in turn had had an affair with one of Speer's old friends, Karl Hanke.

At about 20: 00, Goebbels and his wife, Magda, left the bunker ; close to the entrance they bit on a cyanide ampule and either shot themselves at the same time or were given a coup de grâce by the SS guard detailed to dispose of their bodies.

Nevertheless, Nazi officials did not like the sad song about parted lovers, and Joseph Goebbels prohibited its being played on the radio.

Following comments Pinsky made about actor Tom Cruise's belief in Scientology and Lindsay Lohan's drug abuse, Cruise's lawyer compared Pinsky to Joseph Goebbels, and Lohan posted on Twitter, " I thought REAL doctors talked to patients in offices behind closed doors.

The Nazi Germany minister for propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, set up a special unit to invent and spread rumours about an Alpenfestung.

Joseph Goebbels still spoke about the ' Endsieg ' as late as March 1945..

This version of the story was related by Albert Speer in his memoirs, who stated that the " mission " to Spain was an elaborate practical joke, concocted by Hitler and Goebbels, designed to punish Hanfstaengl after he'd displeased the Führer by making " adverse comments about the fighting spirit of the German soldiers in combat " in the Spanish Civil War.

Joseph Goebbels had been intending to turn the trial into Nazi propaganda about Jewish conspiracy, but the homosexuality accusations threatened to humiliate the Nazis.

Although the Nazis were charmed, the Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels ( a virulent anti-Semite ) learned about this incident, and decreed that Gottschalk would be required to separate from his Jewish wife.

" The general impression one gets is that Goebbels is quite surprised that Hitler was serious about carrying out the threat in the " Prophecy Speech.

But Goebbels banned its playing in Germany altogether, stating that the German people — who were by that point going through almost nightly Allied bombing raids — were less than enthusiastic about seeing a film that portrayed mass death and panic.

When Hitler said he approved of what was happening, Goebbels took this as authorization to organise a nationwide pogrom against the Jews.

At the time of the Sudetenland crisis in 1938, Goebbels was well aware that the great majority of Germans did not want a war, and used every propaganda resource at his disposal to overcome what he called this " war psychosis ," by whipping up sympathy for the Sudeten Germans and hatred of the Czechs.

" Although the Propaganda Ministry was not invited to the Wannsee Conference, Goebbels knew by March what had been decided there.

By later accounts, Goebbels thought highly of Riefenstahl ’ s filmmaking but was angered with what he saw as her overspending on the Nazi-provided filmmaking budgets.

When Hammerstein and Schleicher met later on the evening of January 29 to discuss what Hitler had said, they dispatched Werner von Alvensleben to meet Hitler, who was having dinner at the apartment of Joseph Goebbels, to seek further assurances that Schleicher could serve in a Hitler government.

In one of his recent articles Dr. Goebbels wrote, ' Thanks to the Jew Kaufmann, we Germans know only too well what to expect in case of defeat.

This book examined the " Hitler cult " in Germany, how it was developed by Joseph Goebbels, what social groups the Hitler Myth appealed to and how it rose and fell.

Goebbels hosted a meeting at his home between himself, Lang and several other German filmmakers on discussions on what films would be permitted by Nazi censorship.

Throughout the end of 1939 and the beginning of 1940, Goebbels devoted " constant attention " to the production of what he referred to as " the Jew film ".

The theory is that with Haim Arlosoroff's personal involvement in the negotiations, Goebbels took notice of his wife's former Jewish friend and sought to erase what might have been an embarrassment for the Goebbelses.

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.

" It has been credibly suggested Hitler and Goebbels decided to " like " the opera as a " taunt " to Göring for having the audacity to tell Hitler what he could and could not see ( Kater 10 and accompanying footnotes, also an oral history from Viennese composer Gottfried von Einem, Vienna, Nov. 30, 1994 ).