Goebbels also hoped to use German-Americans to keep America neutral during the war, but this actually produced great hostility to Nazi propagandists.

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.

Bormann and his puppet Lammers, keen to retain their control over the Party and State administrations respectively, placed endless obstacles in Goebbels ’ s way.

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 ".

In March Goebbels again saw Hitler, and assured him that the trial would get under way in May.

Once World War II starts, Campbell begins to make his way up through Joseph Goebbels ' propaganda organization, eventually becoming the " voice " of broadcasts aimed at converting Americans to the Nazi cause.

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.

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.

Goebbels and Speer worked through 1942 to persuade Hitler to dismiss Göring as economic head and allow the domestic economy to be run by a revived Cabinet headed by themselves.

Goebbels instead tried to persuade Hitler to appoint Göring as head of the government.

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.

* 1945 – Adolf Hitler's designated successor Hermann Göring sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of the Third Reich, which causes Hitler to replace him with Joseph Goebbels and Karl Dönitz.

Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels and other Nazi leaders used it in reference to the worldwide political movement coordinated by the Comintern.

Some of the leaders of the Nazi regime ( left to right ): Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels and Rudolf Hess

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.

Goebbels rose to power in 1933 along with Hitler and the Nazi Party and he was appointed Propaganda Minister.

Goebbels remained with Hitler in Berlin to the end.

Hitler ’ s imprisonment following the failed November 1923 " Beer Hall Putsch " left the party temporarily leaderless, and when the 27-year-old Goebbels joined the party in late 1924 the most important influence on his political development was Gregor Strasser, who became Nazi organizer in northern Germany in March 1924.

Hitler, however, recognized Goebbels ’ talents.

Hitler berated Goebbels over his support for the " socialist " line, but offered to " wipe the slate clean " if Goebbels would now accept his leadership.

Goebbels capitulated completely, offering Hitler his total loyalty – a pledge that was clearly sincere, and that he adhered to until the end of his life.

In October 1926, Hitler rewarded Goebbels for his new loyalty by making him the party " Gauleiter " for the Berlin section.

Here, Goebbels discovered his talent as a propagandist, writing such tracts as 1926's The Second Revolution and Lenin or Hitler.

Goebbels also discovered a talent for oratory, and was soon second in the Nazi movement only to Hitler as a public speaker.

Where Hitler ’ s style was hoarse and passionate, Goebbels ’ was cool, sarcastic and often humorous: he was a master of biting invective and insinuation, although he could whip himself into a rhetorical frenzy if the occasion demanded.

But his outstanding talents, and the obvious fact that he stood high in Hitler ’ s regard, earned Goebbels the grudging respect of the anti-intellectual brawlers of the Nazi movement, who called him " our little doctor " with a mixture of affection and amusement.

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.

Despite his revolutionary rhetoric, Goebbels ’ most important contribution to the Nazi cause between 1930 and 1933 was as the organizer of successive election campaigns: The Reichstag elections of September 1930, July and November 1932 and March 1933, and Hitler ’ s presidential campaign of March – April 1932.

When Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933, Goebbels was initially given no office: the coalition cabinet Hitler headed contained only a minority of Nazis as part of the deal he had negotiated with President Paul von Hindenburg and the conservative parties.

Adolf Hitler with one of Goebbels ' daughters, 1933

But Goebbels always had to bow to Hitler ’ s views.

Hitler loathed modernism of all kinds, and Goebbels ( whose own tastes were sympathetic to modernism ) was forced to acquiesce in imposing very traditionalist forms on the artistic and musical worlds.

On 9 November, the evening vom Rath died of his wounds, Goebbels was at the Bürgerbräu Keller in Munich with Hitler, celebrating the anniversary of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch with a large crowd of veteran Nazis.

Goebbels told Hitler that " spontaneous " anti-Jewish violence had already broken out in German cities, although in fact this was not true: this was a clear case of Goebbels manipulating Hitler for his own ends.

In Berlin, Goebbels was able to give full expression to his genius for propaganda, as editor of the Berlin Nazi newspaper Der Angriff ( The Attack ) and as the author of a steady stream of Nazi posters and handbills.

According to Lang, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels called Lang to his offices to inform him that The Testament of Dr Mabuse was being banned but that he was nevertheless so impressed by Lang's abilities as a filmmaker ( especially Metropolis ), he was offering Lang a position as the head of German film studio UFA.

After Hitler's suicide, Goebbels succeeded him as Chancellor.

In April, he brought Goebbels to Munich, sending his own car to meet him at the railway station, and gave him a long private audience.

At this election Goebbels was one of the 10 Nazis elected to the Reichstag, which brought him a salary of 750 Reichsmarks a month and immunity from prosecution.

In April 1930, he fired Strasser as head of the Nazi Party national propaganda apparatus and appointed Goebbels to replace him, giving him control of the party ’ s national newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter ( People ’ s Observer ), as well as other Nazi papers across the country.

Goebbels could bribe as well as threaten: he secured a large budget for his Ministry, with which he was able to offer generous salaries and subsidies to those in the arts who co-operated with him.

As late as 1943, the Hitler Youth leader Artur Axmann was ingratiating himself with Goebbels by procuring young women for him.

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.

It was Goebbels, besieged in his Berlin flat with Speer and secretary Wilfred von Oven beside him but with his phone lines intact, who brought Otto Ernst Remer, the wavering commander of the Berlin garrison, to the phone to speak to Hitler in East Prussia, thus demonstrating that the Führer was alive and that the garrison should oppose the attempted coup.

Goebbels knew how to play on Hitler's fantasies, encouraging him to see the hand of providence in the death of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on 12 April.

Strauss privately scorned Goebbels and called him " a pipsqueak.

" In order to gain Goebbels ' cooperation, however, in extending the German music copyright laws from 30 years to 50 years, in 1933 Strauss dedicated an orchestral song, Das Bächlein (" The Little Brook ") to him.

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.

Fields, representing Cruise, responded by calling Pinsky an " unqualified television performer " and likened him to Nazi Joseph Goebbels, saying " He seems to be spewing the absurdity that all Scientologists are mentally ill.

By first creating a speaking environment, designed by Joseph Goebbels, he was able to exaggerate his presence to make him seem messianic.

When Goebbels received an urgent phone call informing him of the fire, he regarded it as a " tall tale " at first and hung up.

At 03: 15, Reichskanzler Goebbels and Bormann sent a radio message to Dönitz informing him of Hitler's death.