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Goebbels

American  
[-buhls] / ˈgœ bəls /

noun

  1. Joseph Paul 1897–1945, German propaganda director for the Nazis.


Goebbels British  
/ ˈɡœbəls /

noun

  1. Paul Joseph (paul ˈjoːzɛf). 1897–1945, German Nazi politician; minister of propaganda (1933–45)

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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

Between the two of us, we came up with little snippets of quotes from Mussolini, from Mao, from the People’s Daily, from Goebbels, and from Hitler himself.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2024

The story made headlines in Europe as well, and it caught the eye of Joseph Goebbels, who found himself decidedly in accord with Brundage’s thinking.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown