Joseph Goebbels: References & Edit History
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Biographies of Goebbels include David Irving, Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich (1996); Ralf Georg Ruth, Goebbels (1993), trans. by Krishna Winston; Helmut Heiber, Goebbels, trans. by John K. Dickinson (1972); Viktor Reimann, Dr. Joseph Goebbels (1976), trans. by Stephen Wendt; and Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel, Doctor Goebbels: His Life and Death (1960). His role overseeing German film is discussed in Felix Moeller, The Film Minister: Goebbels and the Cinema in the Third Reich (2000), trans. by Michael Robinson. His personal writings are collected in Helmut Heiber (ed.), The Early Goebbels Diaries, 1925–1926 (1962; originally published in German, 1960); Louis P. Lochner (ed. and trans.), The Goebbels Diaries (1948); and H.R. Trevor-Roper (ed.), Final Entries, 1945, trans. by Richard Barry (1978), covering the period February 28–April 10, 1945.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modified link of Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - Joseph Goebbels. | Oct 25, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Oct 25, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: World War II Database - Joseph Goebbels. | Jun 06, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Apr 27, 2026 | ||
| Changed spelling of “anti-Semitism” to “antisemitism.” | Apr 29, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Mar 18, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Yad Vashem - Joseph Goebbels (PDF). | Aug 20, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: HistoryNet - How Goebbels convinced German civilians to murder Allied airmen. | May 07, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Mar 06, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Joseph Goebbels. | Jul 05, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Alpha History - Joseph Goebbels. | Mar 31, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States Holocaust Museum - Holocaust Encyclopedia - Joseph Goebbels. | Aug 19, 2022 | ||
| Media added. | Feb 09, 2021 | ||
| Revised discussion of his children's deaths. | Dec 17, 2020 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Sep 05, 2019 | ||
| Media added. | Jun 11, 2015 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - History - Biography of Joseph Goebbels. | Nov 19, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - Joseph Goebbels. | Sep 25, 2008 | ||
| Bibliography revised and updated. | Jul 10, 2008 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Jul 10, 2008 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jan 12, 2000 |