Doctor Goebbels

Part biography and part horror, Manvell and Fraenkel delve deep into the mystery shrouding one of Hitler's most evil henchman. Using first-hand accounts from the Nuremberg Trials; by Goebbel's sister Maria; and from the fiance of his youth, Else, Goebbel's carefully crafted character is ripped apart to reveal a boy determined to overcome youthful disabilities and prove, above all, his devotion and dedication to his country. --

"A biography of the most terrifying figure in the hierarchy of Nazi Germany. Joseph Goebbels was Hitler's closest friend, the creator of modern propaganda and the intellectual of the Nazi party. This is the story of the man and the politician." Huntting.

La biografía definitiva del líder de la publicidad nazi. El Tercer Reich no se puede entender sin la decisiva aportación de Joseph Goebbels. Al frente del Ministerio de Propaganda, fue terriblemente hábil en su objetivo de inocular el odio contra los judíos en la sociedad alemana, con las espantosas consecuencias por todos conocidas. En esta esclarecedora biografía, Goebbels aparece como un ser contradictorio; acomplejado, fanático, engreído y mordaz, pero a la vez infatigable, culto, agradable en el trato y, por encima de todo, un genio de la propaganda. Sus eficaces técnicas de manipulación y control social, basadas en su principio de que «una mentira repetida cien veces se convierte en una verdad», no han sido aún superadas.

As a leader of the twentieth century’s most evil regimes, Joseph Goebbel’s legacy is his work constructing the mythic image of Adolf Hitler during his rise to power and his catastrophic rule of Germany. In Doctor Goebbels, Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel reveal the man behind the Nazi propaganda machine, beginning with his idyllic childhood in Germany and ending in a dramatic death by suicide in the Führer-bunker in 1945. Part biography and part horror, Manvell and Fraenkel delve deep into the mystery shrouding one of Hitler’s most evil henchman. Using information from his own unpublished diary and first-hand accounts from the Nuremberg Trials, from Goebbel’s sister Maria, and from the fiancé of his youth, Else, Goebbel’s carefully crafted character is ripped apart to reveal a boy determined to overcome youthful disabilities and prove his devotion and dedication to his country. Doctor Goebbels delivers the kind of detail that only true scholarship can provide. Written with flair and polished with precision, this account is sure to leave readers shocked and surprised at the life of the Führer’s ‘Minister of Hate’.

"In this comprehensive volume, Peter Longerich documents Goebbels' descent into antisemitism and ideology and ascent through the ranks of the Nazi party, where he became an integral member of Hitler's inner circle and where he shaped a brutal campaign of Nazi propaganda"--