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Joseph Goebbels

Germanyb. 29 October 1897 · d. 1 May 1945Add to favourites

Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda from 13 March 1933 to 30 April 1945. In his Sportpalast speech of 18 February 1943 he called for 'total war', and on 23 July 1944 he was appointed Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War. Under Hitler's will he became Chancellor on 30 April 1945, for one day; he died by suicide in Berlin on 1 May 1945.