Goebbels
Americannoun
noun
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Other sections are apparently based largely on the author’s speculation, including her belief that Goebbels sent the family to Oahu after discovering Ruth’s Jewish heritage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
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
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
When Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels appears, addressing the crowd in that Berlin square, I pointed out something else: While the book burnings were organized by “grassroots” student groups, the Nazi government was fully looped in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2024
The previous June, Hitler had awarded Goebbels a sumptuous personal residence on the recently renamed Hermann-Goring-Strasse, just a block south of the Brandenburg Gate.
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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