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
They included Hitler’s propagandist Joseph Goebbels, who wrote in his diary in 1924: “I believe in the inner, but not the factual, truth of The Protocols.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2024
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
But at the Berlin Olympics in 1936, the competition fell under the direction of Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister.
From New York Times • May 2, 2024
A relieved Joseph Goebbels sat down and wrote, “The Fuehrer is immensely happy... England remains passive. France won’t act alone. Italy is disappointed and America is uninterested.”
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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