Goebbels
Americannoun
noun
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Real Madrid have called for the "immediate resignation" of La Liga president Javier Tebas after he drew comparisons between the club's management and Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
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 mouthy pool shark Minnesota Fats is given as much attention as the babushka Lyudmila Borisovna—an anti-Nazi broadcaster whom Joseph Goebbels called the witch of the Kremlin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 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
Goebbels and Goring and the rest of the Nazi officials scurried in behind him.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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