Nazi Party propaganda chief and minister who promoted antisemitism and dictatorship.
Joseph Goebbels was a Nazi Party propaganda leader who headed the party organization in Berlin from 1926 and became its propaganda chief in 1930. Appointed minister of propaganda by Hitler in 1933, he brought the press, film, radio, and cultural life under Nazi ideological control and promoted antisemitism and persecution of Jews. He was a chief instigator of the November 1938 pogrom and later campaigned for total war.
Activities and affiliations
- Ideology and propaganda · Germany state institutions
Career Timeline
- 1926–1945Nazi Party Gauleiter for Berlin
- 1930–1945Nazi Party propaganda chief
- 1933–1945Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
- 1944–1945Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War