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Goebbels

[ -buhls ]

noun

  1. Jo·seph Paul [yoh, -zef poul], 1897–1945, German propaganda director for the Nazis.


Goebbels

/ ˈɡղə /

noun

  1. GoebbelsPaul Joseph18971945MGermanPOLITICS: Nazi politicianPOLITICS: statesman Paul Joseph (paul ˈjoːzɛf). 1897–1945, German Nazi politician; minister of propaganda (1933–45)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Quandt, the ex-husband of Goebbels' wife, was judged to be a Mitläufer, meaning someone who accepted Nazi ideology but did not directly partake in its crimes.

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They included Hitler’s propagandist Joseph Goebbels, who wrote in his diary in 1924: “I believe in the inner, but not the factual, truth of The Protocols.”

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Joseph Goebbels once declared, ‘This will always remain one of the best jokes of democracy, that it gave its deadly enemies the means by which it was destroyed.’

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I worry that Joseph Goebbels was right about democracy handing its enemies the tools for its own destruction.

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As a Reichstag delegate, Joseph Goebbels observed, “The big joke on democracy is that it gives its mortal enemies the tools to its own destruction.”

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