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.

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.

By late 1943, the tide of the war was turning against the Axis powers, but this only spurred Goebbels to intensify the propaganda by urging the Germans to accept the idea of total war and mobilization.

Goebbels was born in Rheydt, an industrial town south of Mönchengladbach on the edge of the Ruhr district.

William L. Shirer, who worked in Berlin as a journalist in the 1930s and was acquainted with Goebbels, wrote in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich ( 1960 ) that the deformity was from a childhood attack of osteomyelitis and a failed operation to correct it.

Goebbels was embittered by the frustration of his literary career ; his novel did not find a publisher until 1929 and his plays were never staged.

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.

" Goebbels asked rhetorically in a debate with Theodor Vahlen, Gauleiter ( regional party head ) of Pomerania, in the Rhineland party newspaper National-sozialistische Briefe ( National-Socialist Letters ), of which he was editor, in mid-1925.

Goebbels was bitterly disillusioned.

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.

Goebbels was then able to use the new position to indulge his literary aspirations in the German capital, which he perceived to be a stronghold of the socialists and communists.

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.

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.

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.

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.

" Although the spectacular rise in the Nazi vote in 1930 and July 1932 was caused mainly by the effects of the Depression, Goebbels as party campaign manager was naturally given much of the credit.

Adolf Hitler with one of Goebbels ' daughters, 1933

As one of the most highly educated members of the Nazi leadership, and the one with the most authentic pretensions to high culture, Goebbels was sensitive to charges that he was dragging German culture down to the level of mere propaganda.

Whatever the loss of real power suffered by Goebbels during the middle years of the Nazi regime, he remained one of Hitler ’ s intimates.

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.

Goebbels was one of four witnesses.

Schwägermann ordered one of the soldiers to shoot Goebbels again because he was unable to do it himself.

During all this time, Ribbentrop feuded with various other Nazi leaders ; at one point in August 1939 an armed clash took place between supporters of Ribbentrop and those of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels over the control of a radio station in Berlin that was meant to broadcast German propaganda abroad ( Goebbels claimed exclusive control of all propaganda both at home and abroad whereas Ribbentrop asserted a claim to monopolize all German propaganda abroad ).

Fritz Hippler, producer of one of the most powerful propaganda films of the time, 1940's The Wandering Jew, ran the film department under Goebbels.

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.

He had told one of his Gestapo interrogators, Dr Heinrich Jagusch, that he intended using this defense as long ago as mid-1941, but the Justice Ministry had not informed Goebbels, who was furious.

* In an episode of the BBCTV comedy programme, 2 Point 4 Children the grandmother mentions Goebbels in conversation with a friend and-when queried-points out that " he was the one with no balls at all, if you remember ".

No one in the audience knew why he was in the dock ; rumors abounded that he was a stand-in for Goebbels.

A series of multilingual and colorful brochures, titled " Deutschland ", advertised Germany as a peaceful, idyllic, and progressive country, on one occasion even portraying the ministry's boss, Joseph Goebbels, grinning and hamming in an unlikely photo series of the Cologne carnival.

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.

In addition, she received several Emmy nominations, including one for playing in 1981 Magda Goebbels, wife of Joseph Goebbels, in The Bunker, opposite Anthony Hopkins as Hitler ; for her role in the miniseries The Thorn Birds ; two for her work in Twin Peaks as the evil Catherine Martell, and a nomination for her guest appearance on Frasier.

At one point the Nazi government's propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, ordered broadcasting of the song to stop.

In 1937, a German-made version was produced under the sponsorship of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, who considered Hamsun one of his favorite authors.

Goebbels ' deception plan over the Redoubt was one of the great successes of German intelligence during World War II, albeit one that came too late to alter the outcome of the war.

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.

The alliance was shaky at best, mainly because during this period Himmler was still cooperating with Bormann to gain more power at the expense of Göring and most of the traditional Reich administration ; Göring's loss of power had resulted in an overindulgence in the trappings of power and his strained relations with Goebbels made it difficult for a unified coalition to be formed, despite the attempts of Speer and Göring's Luftwaffe deputy Field Marshal Erhard Milch, to reconcile the two Party comrades.

In public, Goebbels remained confident of German victory: " We live at the most critical period in the history of the Occident ," he wrote in Das Reich in February 1943.

Nazi control of the German film industry is the most extreme example of the use of film in the service of a fascist national program and, in 1933, Hitler created the Reich Ministry for People's Enlightenment and Propaganda and appointed the youthful Joseph Goebbels as its head.

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.

By far the most prominent person killed by the Resistance was Philippe Henriot, the Vichy regime's Minister of Information and Propaganda, who was known as " the French Goebbels.

Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels dubbed her an " Enemy of Germany ", but as a leading film star at UFA, she participated in ten films, most of them great successes.

Kershaw argued that Goebbels failed to create the Volksgemeinschaft ( people's community ) of Nazi propaganda, and that most Bavarians were far more interested in their day to day lives than in politics during the Third Reich.

The first time ( 9 April 1926 ), Goebbels wrote dismissingly of him, but by November 1944, the Propaganda Minister's attitude had changed ; he now regarded Schwarz as one of the most reliable and respectable party men.

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.

The Sportpalast is most known for speeches and rallies that took place during the Third Reich, particularly Joseph Goebbels ' 1943 " Total War " speech.

The most significant of the many political speeches and rallies within the halls of the Sportpalast was propaganda minister Goebbels ' Total War speech on February 18, 1943.