Goebbels, pictured with Adolf Hitler, his wife Magda and his children
Joseph Goebbels was one of the most important and influential people in Nazi Germany.
- Hitler put him in charge of the party's propaganda machine in 1929 and he played a key role in implementing the dictator's agenda.
- His limp and sharp tongue earned him the nickname among some as the 'Poison Dwarf'.
- He organised attacks against Jews, banned them from the world of the arts and media, censored the news and supported Nazi propaganda films.
- As WWII turned in favour of the Allies, he increased his propaganda in order to convince the German people of the idea of 'total war' and mobilisation.
- Goebbels killed himself and his wife, and their six biological children with cyanide capsules the day after Hitler committed suicide in 1945.
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