An in-depth biography of Nazi Germany's master of propaganda draws on thousands of pages from Goebbels's personal journals to describe the life of Hitler's confidant, his role in Nazi Germany, his hatred for the human race, and his death.
From Publishers Weekly This is a repellent book, and not only because of its subject. Irving (Goering) has been increasingly under fire for exploiting seemingly indefatigable research to distort history. In the book in hand, he uses enough pejoratives to sustain the illusion of objectivity regarding Hitler's propaganda chief, yet suggests that the admittedly bad man had a cause not entirely bad in itself. Nazi brutality is almost always retaliation for the plots of international Jewry and the criminality of domestic Jews. Even the books notoriously burned are "decadent and anti-German." The term Redakteur (editor) "to Goebbels' sensitive ear had a Jewish ring." Protesters in Saarbrucken are "a clamoring ragbag of communists, Jews, freemasons and disgruntled emigres." There is always, in Irving's own words, a "Jewish problem" that Goebbels struggles to solve. Much of the book, heavily indebted to the self-serving Goebbels diaries, is in such a vein. There seems always to be an agenda to Irving's documentation, and the language of camouflaged admiration suffuses his pages amidst his ritual scolding of the Nazis for their excesses. The real insidiousness of the biography is that its formidable documentation will gain it acceptance as history. Photos not seen by PW.
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From Library Journal This latest work by Irving (Goring: A Biography, LJ 3/1/89) depends heavily on Goebbels's diaries and related papers. Unfortunately, the diaries are boring. Goebbels devoted much of his journal to describing his emotions (banal), love life (promiscuous), and marriage (dysfunctional). At its best, this aspect of the book is keyhole history. Far more troubling is Irving's general approach to the history of the Third Reich. He takes pains to insist periodically upon his distaste for Goebbels's Nazi extremism, but to describe Hitler as "less radical on the Jewish question" in 1942 than was Goebbels is to deny reality. Paradigmatic as well is Irving's insistence that Goebbels's vicious attacks on Jews in the 1930s were in response to the "hysteria" generated by the foreign press, the Comintern, and such dangerous "Jewish" organizations as the World League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism. In contrast, Irving offers no new evidence establishing Goebbels as the Reich's "mastermind." He neglects such important subjects as the sources of Goebbels's anti-Semitism, his development of the theories and techniques of mass propaganda, and his role as wartime Gauleiter of Berlin. Ralf Reuth's Goebbels (Harcourt, 1993) offers readers a more balanced approach. [For a discussion of the controversy surrounding the publication of this book, see "To Buy or Not To Buy?" p. 70.]?Dennis E. Showalter, Colorado Coll., Colorado Spring.
-?Dennis E. Showalter, Colorado Coll., Colorado Springs
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 535-692) and index.

Contents 3
Acknowledgements 5
Prologue: The Mark of Cain 14
I: The Hater of Mankind 23
2: Prodigal Son 41
3: ‘A Wandering Scholar, I’ 48
4: The Little Agitator 64
5: God Disposes Otherwise 76
6: The Opium Den 90
7: Fighting the Ugly Dragon 113
8: Anka is to Blame 129
9: Conjuring up Spirits 139
10: A Rather Obstinate Gentleman 154
11: The Nightmare 165
12: Hold the Flag High 175
13: His Week in Court 192
14: A Blonde in the Archives 206
15: Maria Magdalena Quandt 216
16: The Stranger and the Shadow 235
17: The Man of Tomorrow 253
18: Follow that Man 268
19: ‘It’s all Fixed!’ 284
20: The Big Lie 290
21: Bonfire of the Books 304
22: Twilight of the Gods and Tally-ho 322
23: Inkpot Hero 343
24: While Crowds Exult below. 361
25: A Man of Property 385
26: Femme Fatale 394
27: The Round Table 408
28: Something about March 427
29: The Gambler 447
30: Duty put on Hold 465
31: The Real Chum 477
32: Broken Glass 488
33: On the Verge 509
34: Put Poland on Page Two 527
35: Pact with the Devil 545
36: War 561
37: Propaganda Means Repetition 581
38: Knocking out Front Teeth 590
39: Breaking Even 606
40: A Few Choice Drops of Poison 622
41: The Malodorous Thing 640
42: No Room for Two of Us 651
43: Exodus 671
44: A Fate which Beggars all Description 688
45: At any Price 705
46: The Road to Stalingrad 717
47: Things have not Panned out 733
48: Sin Will Pluck on Sin 750
49: The Katyn Massacre 766
50: The First Battle of Berlin 780
51: The White Suit Bespattered 794
52: When the Going gets Tough 808
53: The Long-Awaited Day 825
54: Valkyrie 839
55: Total War 853
56: The Spectre of the Hangman 869
57: Kill off the Prisoners 883
58: Death of Another Empress 896
59: The Man of the Century 905
Epilogue: ‘Ever at your Side’ 927
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Height only five-foot four; a figure of Ghandi-like emaciation barely tipping the scales at one hundred pounds; a head too large for his body; a clubfoot for which he was taunted as both man and boy - all the cards seemed stacked against him. Goebbels blamed the world at large; he hated the human race, and he boasted of his hatred in his secret diaries.
Historian David Irving is the first to make use of the entire 80,000 pages of the Goebbels diaries - diaries that lay unrecognized for fifty years in the Red Army's "Trophy" archives in Moscow. From this extraordinary trove, to which Irving has added six years' research into the archives of the Western World, he has written the first full-scale biography of Adolf Hitler's confidant and evil genius, Dr. Joseph Goebbels.
Here for the first time are Goebbels's secret, unpublished writings on the Reichstag Fire, the Night of the Long Knives, the Dollfuss murder, the Saar plebiscite, the invasion of Prague, Pearl Harbor, and scores of other turning points in modern history. Dr. Goebbels faithfully records Hitler's innermost councils, documenting the hidden methods and strategies of Nazi leadership.

Historian David Irving is the first to make use of the entire 80,000 pages of the Goebbels diaries--diaries that lay unrecognized for fifty years in the Red Army's 'Trophy ' archives in Moscow. From this extraordinary trove, to which Irving has added six years of research into the archives of the Western World, he has written the first full-scale biography of Adoph Hitler's confidant and evil genius, Dr. Joseph Goebbels

Propagandaminister Goebbels 80.000 sider store dagbog, der i mere end 56 år har ligget upåagtet hen i den Røde Hærs arkiver i Moskva. Dele af Goebbels dagbøger er tidligere offentliggjort, men med adgang til arkiverne i Moskva tegnes et mere fuldstændigt billede - ikke blot af personen Goebbels - men i særdeleshed af Tyskland i perioden 1933-1945

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