Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels was born on October 27, 1897
In 1925, he was made business manager of Ruhr district for the
Reich in North Germany
In 1926 he published his book, Michael: ein Deutsches Schicksal
in Tagebuchblattern
In Ruhr district he meets Gregor Strasser and publishes the
Nationalsozialistischen Briefe, a propaganda newsletter
In 1926, he switches allegiance to Adolph Hitler after previously
requesting that he be expelled from the Nazi Party
That November he is appointed manager of the Berlin-Brandenberg
district
In 1927, he begins to publish his own newsletter Der Angriff
(The Attack)
He then employs agents to spread his propaganda throughout his
district and to sway the people to his convictions
In 1929, after delivering the eulogy of Storm Trooper, Goebbels is
promoted to Reich Propaganda Leader
In 1932, Goebbels helps Hitler to win the election, then, in 1933,
he is rewarded with a new office: Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment
and Propaganda
On May 10, 1933, Goebbels presides at book-burning where he accuses
Jews for the tribulations of Germany
On the Party Day of Victory in 1933, Goebbels again speaks with
cutting rhetoric against Jews in a formal address
In 1938, subsequent to Kristallnacht, Goebbels gains
international recognition for the Reich
In 1942, he advocated the "Final Solution" and personally supervises
deportation of Jews and gypsies while declaring them "unconditionally
exterminable"
February 18, 1943, Goebbels delivers a speech to rally civilian
support at the Berlin Sportpalast
July 20, 1944, he isolates the conspirators within the Reich's War
Ministry and thus saving the Nazi regime and steeling Germany for its
dying gasp
This is followed by his appointment to General Plenipotentiary for
Total War
1944 - As he dismisses his comrades he says,"When we depart, let the
earth tremble!"
1944 - Hitler commits suicide and leaves the Chancellorship to
Goebbels
On May 1, 1945, instead of accepting, Goebbels has his six children
lethally injected by an SS doctor and orders an SS orderly to shoot him
and Magda, his wife
The last words attributed to his name are as follows:""We shall go
down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time, or as the greatest
criminals."
