2 Quotes & Sayings By Joseph Goebbels
Joseph Goebbels was a Nazi party leader and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. He was one of the most influential and vociferous ideologues in the Third Reich. A proven anti-Semite who spoke of the Jewish question with such passion that he was dubbed "the Joseph Goebbels of the Jews", Goebbels was born in Rheydt, Germany, and grew up in relatively comfortable circumstances. His father was for many years a Lutheran pastor in the small town of Mönchengladbach. Goebbels studied German literature and art history at the universities of Freiburg, Heidelberg, and Bonn, where he joined the national-conservative Deutschvölkische Schutz- und Trutzbund (Association for Protection and Defiance) student fraternity
In 1922 he also became a member of the völkisch-nationalist German Student Union (Gesamtring), whose members included future members of Hitler's inner circle such as Rudolf Hess, Alfred Rosenberg and Wilhelm Frick. In 1923 Goebbels joined the NSDAP (Nazi Party) but kept his distance from its more militant offshoot, the SA (Sturmabteilung). In 1924 he finished his thesis on medieval German literature under Professor Hans Grimm at Heidelberg University. In 1925 he joined the faculty of German at the Sorbonne in Paris where he met Anna Maria Sigmund, a woman who would become his wife.
They married in 1926 and had two children: Hans-Joachim, born in 1927, and Helma, born in 1929. In 1929 Goebbels received a Ph.D. from Heidelberg University for a study on Middle High German ballads. Three years later he published a seminal study about romantic nationalism which advocated greater political action for Romantic Nationalists like himself writing: "Romantic Nationalism is really nothing other than patriotism with romantic coloring." His book was an important contribution to the growing school of thought known as National Bolshevism (Nationen-Bolschewismus). In 1930 Goebbels returned to Berlin to join the cultural section of the Ministry of Culture under Richard Walther Darré where he directed cultural propaganda campaigns directed against rival ideologies like Marxism and Bolshevism.
During this time he also began work on his first major work "The Nazi Era