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Joseph Goebbels

Life and Death

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. Toby Thacker

    1. Cardiff University, UK

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Toby Thacker
    Pages 1-9

  3. ‘This Awful Waiting’

    • Toby Thacker
    Pages 10-32

  4. ‘Starting to Find Firm Ground’

    • Toby Thacker
    Pages 33-55

  5. ‘The Coming Dictator’

    • Toby Thacker
    Pages 56-77

  6. ‘You Are the Nobility of the Third Reich’

    • Toby Thacker
    Pages 78-99

  7. ‘We Will All Three Be Good to One Another’

    • Toby Thacker
    Pages 100-123

  8. ‘These Masses Are What Matter’

    • Toby Thacker
    Pages 124-151

  9. ‘We Are Not Suited to Be Executioners’

    • Toby Thacker
    Pages 152-177

  10. An ‘Indissoluble Community of Destiny’

    • Toby Thacker
    Pages 178-203

  11. ‘This People’s War Must Be Carried Through’

    • Toby Thacker
    Pages 204-226

  12. ‘A Life and Death Struggle’

    • Toby Thacker
    Pages 227-249

  13. ‘We Have Done the Right Thing’

    • Toby Thacker
    Pages 250-275

  14. ‘How Distant and Alien this Beautiful World Appears’

    • Toby Thacker
    Pages 276-304

  15. Epilogue

    • Toby Thacker
    Pages 305-332

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 333-407
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About this book

An insightful new biography of Joseph Goebbels, Propaganda Minister of the 'Third Reich' and one of the most important and troubling figures of the twentieth century. The first account to use all of Goebbels' surviving diaries, it sheds new light on his personality, private life and political convictions, as well as his relationship with Hitler.

Reviews

'...a welcome addition to the burgeoning library of 'perpetrator studies'.' - Literary Review

' a detailed and well-written insight into the man at the heart of the Nazi propaganda machine .In his examination of Goebbels, Toby Thacker has produced a valuable addition to the printed history of the 1930s and 1940s.' - Britain at War Magazine

'Thacker's reassessment is convincing and welcome. Crucially, his new biography is the first to be written since the entire set of Goebbels' diaries has been published. He writes well, and offers the reader a number of important new contentions and insights.' -BBC History Magazine

'Judicious, insightful and the first biography based on the entire available diary record. This book is a must for anybody interested in Hitler's Germany and the origins of the Holocaust'.

- Brendan Simms, Peterhouse, Cambridge University, UK

'[Thacker's] biography really is the first step towards a reassessment of the role and significance of Joseph Goebbels in National Socialism.' - Daniel Muhlenfeld, Bulletin, German Historical Institute London.

"...the author seeks to dispel at least some of the myths and legends surrounding Goebbels, which he discussed and considered at the beggining as a sort of stock-taking of the image of Goebbels still prevalant today." German Historical Institute London

Authors and Affiliations

  • Cardiff University, UK

    Toby Thacker

About the author

TOBY THACKER  is Lecturer in Modern European History at Cardiff University, UK, and has published two previous books relating to Nazi Germany: Music after Hitler, 1945–1955  and The End of the Third Reich: Defeat, Denazification, and Nuremberg, 1944-1946.

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