Goebbels
Americannoun
noun
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Mr. Buruma recounts one contemporary joke: “An airplane carrying Hitler, Goering, and Goebbels crashes. All three are killed. Who is saved? Answer: The German people.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
The Hitler acolyte Joseph Goebbels once said that the big joke on democracy was that it provided its mortal enemies with the means of its own destruction.
From Salon • May 20, 2025
When he encounters the minister — an unnamed Joseph Goebbels — he sees him briefly as two distinct men.
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2025
Kim Ki Nam’s role as the country’s chief propagandist earned him notoriety in South Korea, where media nicknamed him the “North Korean Goebbels,” after Nazi Germany’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
From Seattle Times • May 7, 2024
Someone pointed out a cadaverous man near Hitler and told Louie that it was Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s minister of propaganda.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
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