Joseph Goebbels: Biographie, Peter Longerich (Munich: Siedler Verlag, 2010), 912 pp., paperback €19.99
On May 1, 1945, a day after Adolf Hitler and his bride Eva Braun committed suicide in the bunker below the Reich Chancellery, the Nazi propaganda leader Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda followed their beloved Führer by first taking the lives of their six children (all had an “H” in their names) an...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2014
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 28, Issue: 1, Pages: 134-136 |
| Review of: | Joseph Goebbels (München : Pantheon, 2012) (Johnson, Eric A.)
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| Summary: | On May 1, 1945, a day after Adolf Hitler and his bride Eva Braun committed suicide in the bunker below the Reich Chancellery, the Nazi propaganda leader Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda followed their beloved Führer by first taking the lives of their six children (all had an “H” in their names) and then killing themselves. As accomplished historian Peter Longerich explains in this insightful and massive biography, all of the other top Nazi leaders had deserted Hitler. Hence, Joseph and the fanatical Magda fulfilled a promise Goebbels had implied in late January with Magda's full agreement and broadcast over the radio on February 28 stating that life would not be worth living should the Reich fall to its enemies. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcu007 |