Hannah Arendt had Adolf Eichmann in mind when she coined the term “Banality of Evil,” but she might as well have been thinking of Joseph Goebbels. As the fuhrer’s propaganda minister, “Dr.” Goebbels — ...

Longerich (The Unwritten Order), a historian of modern Germany at Royal Holloway University of London, explores in depth three aspects of the career and life of the Third Reich’s infamous minister of ...

Paul Josef Goebbels’ heart stood still. For a moment, after he heard of the bomb attempt on Adolf Hitler, the firm earth had seemed to shake. He “saw visions of the Apocalypse.” One week after the ...

On the streets of Nazi Germany his club foot and feeble, polio-weakened frame earned him the scathing nickname, the "poison dwarf". But now a new academic biography has shown how Joseph Goebbels, ...

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