Joseph Goebbels Life and Death
An insightful new biography of Joseph Goebbels, Propaganda Minister of the 'Third Reich' and one of the most important and troubling figures of the twentieth century. The first account to use all of Goebbels' surviving diaries, it sheds new light on his p
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Also by Toby Thacker: THE END OF THE THIRD REICH: DEFEAT, DENAZIFICATION, AND NUREMBERG, JANUARY 1944–NOVEMBER 1946 MUSIC AFTER HITLER, 1945–1955
Joseph Goebbels Life and Death Toby Thacker Lecturer in Modern European History, Cardiff University
© Toby Thacker 2009 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2009 978-0-230-22889-4 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2009 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-0-230-27866-0 ISBN 978-0-230-27422-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230274228 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
You fear the dismemberment of your being in all the piecework of human wishing and knowing, and fail to notice that you yourselves cannot achieve wholeness if you reject such large and essential parts of that which ‘has been allotted to all mankind’. You seek the indivisibility of man’s being, and yet assent to its being torn apart … The philosopher Paul Natorp, in a warning to German youth in 1920*
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Paul Natorp, ‘Hoffnungen und Gefahren unserer Jugendbewegung’, Werner Kindt (ed.), Grundschriften der Deutschen Jugendbewegung (Düsseldorf and Cologne: Eugen Diederich, 1963), pp. 129–47, pp. 144–5.
Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements A Note on Translation Introduction
viii xi xiii 1
1 ‘This Awful Waiting’
10
2 ‘Starting to Find Firm Ground’
33
3 ‘The Coming Dictator’
56
4 ‘You Are the Nobility of the Third Reich’
78
5 ‘We Will All Three Be Good to One Another’
100
6 ‘These Masses Are What Matter’
124
7 ‘We
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