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Book SynopsisJoseph Goebbels was one of Adolf Hitler's most loyal acolytes. But how did this club-footed son of a factory worker rise from obscurity to become Hitler's malevolent minister of propaganda, most trusted lieutenant and personally anointed successor?
In this definitive one-volume biography, renowned German Holocaust historian Peter Longerich sifts through the historical record and thirty thousand pages of Goebbels's own diary entries to answer that question. Longerich paints a chilling picture of a man driven by a narcissistic desire for recognition who found the personal affirmation he craved within the virulently racist National Socialist movement and whose lifelong search for a charismatic father figure inexorably led him to Hitler.
This comprehensive biography documents Goebbels' ascent through the ranks of the Nazi Party, where he became a member of the Führer's inner circle and launched a brutal campaign of anti-Semitic propaganda. Goebbels delivers fre
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A landmark biography * Daily Mail *
A landmark biography * Daily Mail *
An impressive achievement... illuminating … indispensable -- Richard J Evans
Meticulous in its detail… a major work of scholarship -- Ben Shephard * Observer *
[A] grimly compelling new biography * Mail on Sunday *
