joseph goebbels için 1945 entry

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dr. paul joseph goebbels was born into a strict catholic, working-class family from rheydt, in the rhineland, on october 29, 1897. he was educated at a roman catholic school and went on to study history and literature at the university of heidelberg under professor friedrich gundolf, a jewish literary historian renowned as a goethe scholar and a close disciple of the poet stefan george.

during world war i, goebbels was rejected from military service on account of a crippled foot he received from polio as a child. this, and his small stature, made him feel inadequate and inferior. he remedied this with his extreme radicalism after joining the nazi party in 1922. this is what made him a fantastic propagandist: his extreme inferiority complex and hatred and cynicism of the world. he projected his emotions passionately and impressed his own rage on the people he rallied.

for a short time he could contain his anger through poetry, theater, and arts. he wrote a novel, michael: ein deutsches schicksal in tagebuchblattern, and learned tricks of the performing arts. however, only entry into the nazi party would satiate his hunger to vent upon the world. in 1925, he was made business manager of the party in the ruhr district where he fell in with gregor strasser, the head of the social-revolutionary north german wing. it was here that he began publishing the nationalsozialistischen briefe (ns letters) for strasser. in these letters he praised the soviet union as a nationalist/socialist ally and called for a reevaluation of all values. the briefe was inclined toward proletariat and anti-capitalist views.

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goebbels actually called for adolph hitler to be expelled from nazi party, but his opportunist istincts arose and he switched his views when he saw hitler's power increasing. as the third reich formed, he was rewarded for his shrewd senses by an appointment to nazi district leader for berlin-brandenburg.