In this thread I will post quotations narrating the life of Joseph Goebbels from his birth until he and the Nazi party...

On Joseph's early school experience

>"This schoolboy with a large, intelligent cranium, a puny, underdeveloped body and a club foot lived out his childhood to a chorus of catcalls, jeers and ridicule. It was, he later accepted, 'one of the seminal episodes of my childhood. I became lonely and eccentric. Perhaps this was why I was everybody's darling at home.' He learned how cruel children could be. 'I could say a thing or two about that,' he would sigh in his diary, aged twenty-six. Each creature, he now saw, had to struggle for survival in its own way"

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On young Joseph's relationship with his classmates

>"He was a good scholar and often top of the form, but few liked him, not even the men whose job it was to teach him. [...] Had Joseph not been a crippled, [his classmates] Prang confessed, he would have joined with the other boys to beat the stuffing out of him."

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On Joseph's nickname at school

>"They nicknamed him Ulex after Ulysses, the sly one. Goebbels evidently liked this nickname, which stayed with him during his adolescence."

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On Joseph's first attempt at poetry during his early teens

>"Herbert Lennartz, son of his father's boss, died after a minor operation leaving Goebbels grieved and shocked. It moved him to compose his first poem ('Why did you have to part from me so soon?')"

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On thirteen-year-old Joseph's love of Wagner

> At age thirteen he saw Richard Wagner's majestic opera 'Tannhauser' and was inspired by the romantic dive and sweep of the master's music"

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On the death of Joseph's younger sister

>"When Joseph's little sister Elisabeth died in 1915 they all knelt her death-bed and held hands and prayed as a family together for her soul. Joseph composed another poem for her, 'Sleep, baby, sleep.'"

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Sad!

On young Joseph's sexual longing and frustrations

>"Joseph Goebbels reaches puberty at about thirteen. But given his later reputation is it worth emphasising that he will be thirty-three before he first has sexual intercourse with a woman. For the intervening twenty years this brilliant but celibate cripple's life will be a trail of temptations, near-seductions, and sexual rebuffs etched into his memory"

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On the crushes of young Joseph

>"The sexual arousal that he first detects towards this mature female returns when he is fifteen. He harbours secret crushes on women like Frau Lennartz, the factory owner's wife. [...] All of his pals have girlfriends-Hompesch has one enticingly called Maria Jungbluth. Goebbels however senses only a 'dark yearning' as Eros awakes in him."

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On 16-Year-Old Joseph being rejected for service during WW1

>"Among those who queued as volunteers was Joseph, hoping his spirited response to the emergency would be admired. No doubt the others laughed at the idea. In fact, the Army doctor merely glanced at the diminutive and stooping body in front of him and rejected Joseph outright [...] without even bothering to examine him. The boy returned home and locked himself in his room. For a whole day and night he sobbed like a small child. [...] For two days he would speak to no one."

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"n-no, I just have something in my eye is all."

On adolescent Joseph's nihilistic phase

>"Goebbels [...] in company with his friend passed through a phase of nihilism which left a destructive adolescent element in his nature which he never outgrew. In later life he would frequently act with the petulant cruelty of a very young man determined to avenge himself on a society that seems to him insufficiently perfect for his taste"

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On teenage Joseph not knowing where his future lay

>"But what was to become of him now? The priesthood? Goebbels inclined briefly toward medicine, but Voss, his teacher, persuaded him that his real talents lay in literature. Whichever the subject, the university at Bonn it would be."

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On Joseph being asked to provide a farewell speech upon graduating highschool

>"Prang remembers this speech to have been very stilted and pompous, and the headmaster, who did not like Goebbels because of his supercilious manner at school, remarked afterward that one thing at least was certain: Joseph Goebbels would never make an orator!"

Literally /ourguy/

Why is this all so dramatic to me when I didn't have friends or gf either

why am I in this thread

why am I on Veeky Forums

fucking monkey existence

On Joseph's early university experience

>"He was to study philology, Latin, and history. Desperately lonely, he lodged in a cold bare room. His aspirations were overshadowed by hunger, cold, fatigue, and ill-health"

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On Joseph's one good friend at university

>"He had made one good friend in the law student Karlheinz Kolsch however [...] 'Pille' Kolsch, as he was known, remained his foppish, loud-voiced, jovial, staunch friend and rival long after their careers had drifted apart. With his modish headgear and yellow gloves, Kolsch became his first role-model."

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On poverty affecting his university studies

>"His funds ran out [...] He was keen to continue at university, but his father could put up only fifty marks per month; Joseph earned a little more by tutoring. He frittered away that summer with Lene on vacation, spending at least one chaste night with her on her sofa Rheindahlen, and committing to his memory that she 'stayed pure'. He left a number of unpaid bills at Bonn, which his father settled."

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On Joseph's university studies

>"At Bonn he studied under Adolf Dyroff, professor of philosophy. He attended the literary seminars of Professor Berthold Lietzmann, and wrote well-regarded essays for Professor Carl Enders on the youthful drama fragments of Johann Wolfgang Goethe"

are you the user who did the Ted threads?

W-would Goebbels-kun be my friend?

OP here. Yes, links to other threads here:

Adolf Hitler: archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/86086584/

Ted Kaczynski: archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/104495239/

Anders Breivik: archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/87875112/

William Cottrell: desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/30930679

Adam Lanza: desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/24985710/

There is also one on Elliot Rodger, Christopher Harper-Mercer and maybe one or two minor ones.

On Joseph's affection for Anka Stalherm

>"Female students are in 1918 still rarities at German universities, and Anka is a rarity among these. She is reading economics. Her eyes glitter blue-green, she wears her blonde hair hair long with a few strands caught up in a knot on top; her ankles are slim, and her legs are rumoured to be equally divine. She is twenty-three, two years older than Goebbels. With her Ursuline convent education in Germany and England behind her, she has inherited class, beauty, and wealth as well"

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On Joseph and Anka's developing relationship

>"Since Anka is a regular at Professor Hermann Thiersch's seminars on classical archeology, Goebbels signs on for [...] these three-hour lectures. And the miracle happens: Anka Stalherm, this goddess of the mysterious grey-green eyes, she who is coveted by half the males at Freiburg university, saves her smiles for when he walks in, or so it seems to him. She is fascinated by this swift intellect. They go out [...] for strolls up Freiburg's Castle Hill or into the Black Forest. He serenades Anka on a rented piano, and one precious night he sleeps under the same Black Forest roof as her. The [...] students tour the sleepy towns along the shores of Lake Constance, with Goebbels dreamy-eyed in blissful anticipation. At Ravensburg he plays the huge cathedral organ for them."

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On Joseph's continued pursuit of Anka

>" Every detail of her coquettishness remains implanted in his memory-the cigarettes she deftly filches from him, his letter of reproach, her silent rapture when Goebbels reads out his latest epic, his private glee at Pille's jealous suffering, and their reading of Gerhard Hauptmann's 'The Sunken Bell' together in her room, where Goebbels serenades her on the piano but ascertains that she is, alas, 'chastity itself.'"

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Why do you do these threads? Are you interested in murderers?

mother

fucker

OP probably wants to shoot up a school

OP here. I'm interested in "extreme" individuals who are dismissed as evil, insane and so on. Serial killers, rapists and so on don't interest me at all. I have also researched Goethe, Munch, Salinger, and others who are not criminals.
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On Joseph's continued admiration for Wagner

>" He reads from Richard Wagner's diaries, he plays the Master's music to his pals, and he commends to Anka one entry which touches, he says, on one bone of contention existing between them. Her mother is dismayed that they are still liaising; once, Anka asks if his mother is upset too."

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On Anka's departure from university

>" As she leaves Freiburg at the end of July 1918 after one last night of stifled passion, he visits their old haunts. He sits in the forest hut high above the university city, listening to the rain beating on its roof, and imagines himself all alone on earth. He writes her romantic messages. [...] He reminds her of their first hour together, reading the poetry of Theodor Storm. He will miss her, with her dreamy eyes and lustrous golden hair. [...] After she has left the little Castle Hill boarding house, clutching an armful of roses he has bought her, he returns to that meadow and lies all evening thinking about her until far into the night. The next day there is a card from her-she still has his roses in her arms. 'How I envy those roses,' he writes back, the flattery flowing freely from his pen"

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On Joseph's growing political awareness

>"Under the influence of Flisges and his own study of Dostoievsky Goebbels became politically aware. He was now twenty-two and leaning politically to the left"

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On the appeal of Socialism to Joseph

>"When the student Anton Count von Arco-Valley was sentenced for the assassination of the extreme leftwing prime minister of Bavaria Kurt Eisner, Goebbels became curious about socialism. Being as yet more of a literary than political inclination he explored his ideas in a drama, scribbled in an exercise book, entitled 'The Working Classes' Struggle.'"

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hey user, your threads are always good shit. what ideologies do you identify with, if any?

What about the Moors murders?

Thank you, user, this is extremely interesting to read.

OP here. I'm not sure what you mean by that.
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On Joseph’s play causing problems with his religious teachers

>"Joseph beavers away on [his play] ‘Judas.’Anka incautiously shows it around and in no time the clergy of Rheydt are asking him angry questions about it. On August 27 he is summoned to his former scripture teacher Father Moller, who draws his attention to the pernicious nature of such writings. ‘I was so furious I would have torn "Judas" into a thousand shreds if I had had it with me,’ writes Goebbels. The priest requires him to undertake to destroy even his own copy of the script. Has all his toil been for nothing? ‘What shall I do?’ he appeals to Anka. ‘I am in despair.’
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On Joseph’s doctorate thesis at the University of Heidelberg

>"He now started work on his doctorate. His subject was an examination of the work of Wilhelm von Schultz, sub-titled ‘A Contribution to the History of the Romantic Drama.’ Goebbels was later to withdraw the thesis from the University archives and retitle it ‘The Spiritual and Political Undercurrents of the Early Romantics’."
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On Joseph’s studies in Munich

>"At Munich he studies under the Swiss art historian, Professor Heinrich Wölfflin; he studies music under Professor Hermann Ludwig Baron von der Pfordten and Catholic theology under Professor Joseph Schnitzer. But his real intellectual nourishment is from what he takes in at the galleries and museums—the paintings of Arnold Böckling, of Carl Spitzweg, and of Anselm Feuerbach. He reads voraciously, devouring Sophocles’ drama ‘Antigone,’ August Strindberg’s ‘The Red Room,’ Thomas Mann’s ‘Death in Venice,’ and assorted works by Henrik Ibsen and Leo Tolstoy"

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OP here. I'm not interested in people like that sorry.
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Note: If it seems like the quotations are unclear here, it's because Joseph attended various universities.
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On Joseph's loyalty to the lower orders

>"One afternoon in 1919 there is a knock at his door in Freiburg and [childhood friend] Richard Flisges walks in, rain dripping from his demob. trenchcoat. An ex-lieutenant, he is back from the wars, decorated and embittered, his arm in a sling. He has failed the university entrance examination and will now turn into a pacifist and agitator against the established order of things. Goebbels listens eagerly to this rootless, ill-educated, disillusioned soldier. He has always had a respect for the lower orders. Writing to Willy Zilles in 1915 he has discounted the poet Horace's theme of odi profanum vulgus et arceo ('I hate the vulgar mob and keep them at a distance') preferring instead the romantic poet Wilhelm Raabe's motif: Hab' acht auf die Gassen! ('Pay heed to the street!')"

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On Joseph's growing interest in social and political matters

>"while Goebbels attends the seminars on Goethe and on the era of Sturm und Drang he begins to think more about the social and political issues scarring the defeated Germany. In the evenings he argues about God; he is beginning to have serious doubts about his religious beliefs."

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On Joseph's poverty and religious dilemma

>"Still poised on an awkward threshold between God and profanity, he recalled four years later his mental turmoil, his yearning for God, his crushing poverty, and Anka's inability to help. Again he pawned his watch and set off, alone, for home."

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On an overview of Joseph's life during his early twenties

>"He was very slight in build and his shoulders stooped steeply. He was little more than five feet tall and his weight was in the region of a hundred pounds. He walked with an unmistakable limp, but had become adept at disguising it. He had little money for either food or clothes, so he had to develop his social assets through the conscious development of his personality. [...] In no sense was he either by appearance or mentality the popular conception of an 'Aryan' German. He was more Celtic or Romantic in appearance."

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On Joseph spending the Christmas of 1919 alone

>"That Christmas he found himself alone in Munich, prevented by the Allied occupation authorities from joining his family at Rheydt for the festivities. He stayed in the Bavarian capital, as Wagner's 'Ring' cycle was to be performed at the National Theatre; he found himself strolling through the cobbled, snowswept streets on Christmas eve, entirely deserted save for a police constable wrapped to the ears against the cold. From somewhere came the sound of children singing; and then of a piano- Schubert, the melodies borne through the air, he would later write, as though on angels' hands. 'I know not how long I stood there,' he wrote. 'Only that I sat that evening in a quiet, dark corner of the church of Our Lady and celebrated Christmas alone, as though in a dream."

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You're the man

PLEASE DO SALINGER

On Joseph’s letters to Anka

>”During the summer vacation he exchanges scores of letters with Anka, sometimes twice a day. His letters to her reveal a young man still physically frail and lonely; they suggest that he has elected to enter the Church. Romancing Anka occupies every other waking hour. His catchword is wahnsinnig—crazy: that is what he is, he confesses, about her. He scrawls that word in the corner of letters, or leaves it unfinished just as waaa—“

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On Anka’s letter to Joseph

>” Of her solely maternal interest in him there seems no doubt. ‘Do you know what I should like now?’, she writes to the pintsized student Goebbels. ‘Just to stroke my fingers through your hair and clasp you so tight that you look quite desperate.’”

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On Joseph’s letter to Anka after she decides to study close to him in Wurzburg

>” Ecstatic that she is so close by, he sends her a note as soon as he settles in, perhaps justifying his lack of physical ardour. ‘If love is only in the mind,’ he explains, ‘it might be called platonic; if only physical, it is frivolous, ugly, un-beautiful. It is the noble union of these two factors that creates the ideal love.’”

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On a further exchange of letters between the couple

>” More letters go to Anka. He writes her the kind of letter that romantic females long to receive. In her replies she frets about his frailty, and swears undying love. ‘I hope you’ve gone to bed long ago,’ she writes in one, ‘and are dreaming that I am pressing the trend’rest kiss upon your forehead to dispel your gloomy thoughts for all eternity.’ For the first time in his life he misses the carol service on Christmas Eve; he spends the hours in Anka’s room, and watches entranced as she kneels at her bedside to say her prayers. He sleeps in her chaste embrace—but that is all.”

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Why does he look like a Jew?

Your forgot ol Timmy.

desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/30789031/#30789031

On Anka's first betrayal of Joseph

>"That May of 1919 Anka returns to Freiburg. Kolsch is down there too. Goebbels hurries to join them. A French Negro soldier lets him through the checkpoint at Ludwigshafen. Anka seems cooler, and confesses one morning that she has slept with Kolsch. Goebbels forgives her and kisses away the tears of contrition welling in her eyes."

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On Anka betraying Joseph again and his final letter to her

>"When he next sees her it will be Whitsun. He reads from [his play] 'The Seed' to her, but she, the wealthy miller's daughter, is alienated by its leftwing political message. The rift widens. She begins to see his close friend Theo Geitmann. Chagrined, he returns [her] bracelet. He offers her formal engagement; she turns him down. After one unsatisfactory night with him on the chaiselongue and her in bed he pencils a four-page letter of farewell in which he calls out her name appealingly twenty-four times, a romantic torrent of pleas to return to his embrace. 'Is it over really? I have known only you, you were the whole world to me, the most beautiful world that could ever be conceived, and I have lost it-lost it through my own fault.' Perhaps this last night has been a turning point for them both. 'Do you think you'll ever find another who can love you so?' he asks [...]"

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On Anka's effect on Joseph's attitude towards women

>"'Anka, thou murderess!' he reproaches her memory, and eight years later her betrayal will still fester in his mind. 'Anka walked out on me,' he will write. 'And my entire relationship to women has suffered ever since.'"

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>double-cucked

that's brutal

OP here. I intend to research him further and post a better thread. Also, a superior version of the McVeigh thread is here: archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/85794278/
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On Joseph’s growing literary interests

> At Würzburg his studying begins in earnest. He ploughs through ‘Crime and Punishment,’ he regularly attends the seminars on ancient and modern history, and on German literature”

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On the books Joseph read during his early twenties

>”His reading […] included intensive engagement with secondary literature on German studies as well as Tolstoy, Goethe, Maeterlinck, Lessing, George, Kalidasa, Cervantes, Wedekind, Kleist, Holderlin, and Ibsen. However, there were also Hans Sachs and the Nibelungenlied, the Early New High Germany writer Johann Baptist Fischer German-speaking authors […] included Spee von Langefeld, Abraham a Sancta Clara, Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg, Martin Opitz, Friedrich von Lagau,, and Paul Fleming as well as […] Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder.”

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OP you should consider doing one on G. Perlman

On Joseph leaving the church and writing a novel

>”While at Freiburg university in 1919 Joseph Goebbels turned his back on the Catholic church. Perhaps the suffocating Catholicism of the diocesan city of Würzburg had contributed to his restlessness. He was certainly deeply troubled by the nature of God and what he saw as the falsification of the true faith by idolatrous priests. In his novel ‘Michael’ he allowed his hero to brood upon this dilemma. The result was much portentous, empty rhetoric except for the one proposition: ‘It hardly matters what we believe in, so long as we believe in something’— the essence of the later Joseph Goebbels.”

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On Joseph’s novel ‘Michael’

>”Michael is barely thirty thousand words in length, and is therefore in effect a long short-story. Goebbels writes in the first person, and uses his favourite literary form, the diary. He had kept a personal diary from the age of twelve”

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On the protagonist of ‘Michael’ as a reflection of Joseph

>”Out of the Goebbels-image within the character of Michael comes the desire to write, inspired by […] the spirit of Dostoevsky […] Like Dostoevsky he becomes possessed, “given to phantasma”, suffering in “creative loneliness”.

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On the conclusion of Joseph’s novel

>”[the protagonist] is killed in an accident and the book concludes with a letter written by a miner to Hertha Holk telling her that Michael died with a smile and that in his copy of Nietzsche’s Zarathustra he had marked the passage: “Many die too late and some too early. Strangely still sound the lessons: Die at the right time!””

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Proof that psueds have been misinterpreting Nietzsche for hundreds of years

OP here. That has been suggested before. If I had the time I'd dedicate more of it to doing this sort of thing. Alas.
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On Anka's husband threatening Joseph and Joseph's response

>"Since Mumme had now threatened legal sanctions if he did not stop pestering Anka Stalherm, Goebbels took his revenge by rewriting [his novel] 'Michael' to make the heroine suffer as much despair as he."

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On Joseph's nervous collapse and intention to commit suicide

>"Spending the autumn break at home he reads Dostoyevsky's 'The Brothers Karamazov,' and suffers a nervous collapse. He pens a testament, dated October 1, 1920 in which he [...] wills his poetry and novella to Flisges and his mother. 'Miss Anka Stalherm is to be urged to burn my letters. May she be happy and not brood upon my death.' The final sentences hint unmistakeably at suicide: 'I depart gladly from a life which has become just hell for me.' He folds this into a small envelope, but takes no further action"

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On Joseph’s attempt to publish poetry

>”During his stay in Freiburg he had tried to publish a collection of poetry, but the venture failed because of the substantial subside the publishers had asked him to contribute in advance.”

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Do one on Junger.

On the four years after Joseph left university

>"for the next four years he remained perforce a nihilist doing nothing. To the quiet despair of his parents he squandered the pittance that he did earn from his meagre writings or tutoring. Germany meanwhile slithered into economic chaos [...] Goebbels neither noticed, nor protested, nor cared. His head was in the clouds. [...] he lay on his bed at home and drank in Oswald Spengler's writings on the decline of the west instead"

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On Joseph's affection towards a woman named Else Janke

>"One morning he sees a pretty girl in Rheydt and Herbert Hompesch whispers that she is Else Janke, a schoolteacher and orphan. She is well built and motherly; he, so slight that, seeing him from the rear once, she thinks him only twelve years old. He will later describe her variously as 'a rare mixture of passion and prudence' and as 'a lovely, sweet-tempered chatterbox.' Interestingly he will write: 'I often think of her as my mother.'"

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On Else's refusal to make their relationship public

>"To his annoyance Else will not admit to their relationship in public. The crippled Dr Goebbels has much to learn about the mysterious fluids and capillaries that, mixed together, make up the female brain."

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>Dostoyevsky's 'The Brothers Karamazov'
I think he saw himself in Smerdyakov.

Is this coming from a biography in particular or what? Where would I go to read more?

I got to this point but wanted to let you know I'm liking this, OP.
Where did you get your sources?

>he lay on his bed at home and drank in Oswald Spengler's writings on the decline of the west instead
Proof that NEETdom fucks you up.

OP here. I'll post the sources at the end as usual if that's alright. In short four or five biographies I have read either in part or in full. They usually cover the same details, though in some cases there are further interesting details or more about a certain topic than elsewhere.
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On the titles of some of Joseph’s writing at the time

>”Among the literary products of these otherwise idle years were another drama entitled ‘Heinrich Kämpfert’ and manuscripts with titles like ‘Gypsy Blood,’ ‘Those who adore the Sun,’ and ‘A Wandering Scholar, I.’ His poems were called, ‘Deep in my Reveries I wandered the Dark Forest,’ ‘Prayer,’ ‘The Death Song of the People,’ ‘Sleep Baby, Sleep,’ and ‘At Night.’”

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On Joseph’s involvement in the arts and contemporary literature

>” He was rootless, restless, and now friendless too: [childhood friend] Richard Flisges had left to work in the mines. Challenged by the Albertus Magnus Society to give due account of his progress, Goebbels replied grandly on January 10, 1922 that he was looking out for a position in the press or theatre. After carrying half a dozen of his pieces, the Westdeutsche Landeszeitung published no more although he heard that they had attracted much attention. He worked briefly as the newspaper’s art critic but was made redundant just before his birthday in 1922. A few days later he delivered a public lecture on Oswald Spengler and other contemporary literature; he praised Spengler’s critical remarks about the Jews, which had gone to the root of the matter and ‘must inevitably bring about a spiritual clarification of the Jewish problem,’ in Goebbels’ view. His mother’s suitcase would hold clippings of just a dozen newspaper contributions by Dr phil Joseph Goebbels”

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On Joseph’s speech on contemporary German literature

>”That autumn he was […] offered the chance to give a talk on “Excerpts from Contemporary German Literature.” He used it to settle his score with postwar literature in general (“one pathetic scribbler trying to outdo another”) but dealt particularly harshly with the worst excesses of Expressionism, although he did not condemn the movement as a whole.”

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This thread fucking owns. Much thanks OP.

OP here. I am nearly reaching halfway through the notes I've prepared. Please keep the thread active if you're interested, as I try and avoid spam-posting.

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On Joseph's failure to become a published author while unemployed

>"his writings are universally rejected by the big Jewish publishers like Mosse and Ullstein in Berlin. He remarks to Else that you cannot get ahead unless you are 'one of the boys.' Else makes no response. 'My creativity is zero,' he writes. 'Why? Am I a failure?'"

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On Joseph's diary and emotional torment

>"on October 17, 1923 he resumed his famous diary. 'I can't stand the anguish any longer,' he wrote. 'I've got to set down all the bitterness that burdens my heart.' For Goebbels, writing the diary became something of a fetish, an advance programming of his brain for great things to come. He was aware of a messianic sense of mission. 'On guard, friend!' he would admonish the diary [...] 'Make your sacrifice! Fulfil your mission!' And a few days later: 'Who am I, why am I here, what is my task and what my purport? Am I a wastrel, or an emissary who is waiting for God's Word?' And he added: 'Again and again one shining light escapes the depths of my despair: my belief in my own purity, and my conviction that some day my hour will come.'"

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On Joseph's despair during his mid-twenties

>"A deep, unremitting despair had seized him. He bemoaned the God that had created him a crippled weakling. 'Despair, despair!' he lamented. 'I can't bear to live and see all this injustice. I must join the fight for Justice and Freedom! Despair! Help me, O Lord, I am at the end of my strength!!!'"

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hey OP, could you clarify whether or not JG ever asked Anka to marry him? Thanks.

>phil
that's Philology, not Philosophy, right?

>"His relationship with Anka suffered several crises, but the two always became reconciled again and then felt "closer to each other than before." There were marriage plans, which bumped up against what Goebbels contemptuously referred to as "conventionalities."

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On Joseph's reaction to his best friend's death in the mines

>"one July afternoon in 1923 [...] he received the shattering news that [childhood friend] Richard Flisges had been crushed to death down the mines at Schliersee. He would dramatise his grief, wallowing for months in self-pity; and he rewrote the ending of [his novel] 'Michael' to send his hero down the mines to his death despite a premonition of doom from his landlady"

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On Joseph working for a bank and his growing dislike for Jews

>"Starting at the bank on January 2, 1923 he sees at first hand the unpalatable side of capitalism, and reacts with repugnance to the 'sacred speculation' by the rich and affluential. The country's banks, he finds, are nearly all Jewish. He begins to ponder upon the relationship between das Judentum (the Jewish community) and the Money Problem. The more he looks around the more he perceives the Jews-young Otto Klemperer whom he hears conducting a Gustav Mahler symphony turns out to be a Jew; so does Mahler"

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On Joseph’s determination to write a drama worthy of publication

>” Trapped in his lodgings, Goebbels’s brain fevered on. He brought forth a new drama, ‘Prometheus,’ and in September another play, ‘The Wanderer,’ in which a Traveller guides an often despairing Poet across the heights and sloughs surrounding the German people. […].The words Judentum, Qual (anguish), and Verzweiflung (despair) whirled kaleidoscopically around his jottings. ‘Politics,’ he noted. ‘I don’t know whether to weep or laugh at it.”

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On the connection between Joseph's failure to publish and his hatred for Jews

>"The more the products of his festering intellect were rejected by unseen editors, the more he saw the Jews behind his torment."

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>"Joseph Goebbels reaches puberty at about thirteen. But given his later reputation is it worth emphasising that he will be thirty-three before he first has sexual intercourse with a woman.
Well, I still have teen years.

oh fuck, OP, are you the Ted Kaczynski guy

Doctor of Philosophy.
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On Joseph’s reading habits and thoughts about the role of the artist

>” He read the diaries kept by Henri Alexandre de Catt as private secretary to Frederick the Great and three times afterwards quoted the great monarch’s dictum: ‘Life becomes a curse, and dying a duty.’ Reading more of Thomas Mann he felt that the great novelist had declined after writing ‘Buddenbrooks.’ “

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On Joseph’s further anti-Semitic convictions

>”His antisemitism was reinforced by reading the book ‘Prozesse’ (Trials) by Maximilian Harden—he recorded afterwards that Harden was not a German at all but a Polish Jew, Isidor Witkowski. ‘What a hypocritical Schweinehund this damn’ Jew is,’ he wrote; and then, broadening his aim: ‘Rogues, blackguards, traitors: they suck the blood out of our arteries. Vampires!’ Harden, he decided, was a dangerous man precisely because he gave his writing all he had—pungency, a caustic wit, and satire. ‘Typical of how the Jews fight,’ assessed Goebbels”

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On Joseph's revised opinion of Wagner in his twenties

>"When he ploughed through Richard Wagner's autobiography he identified painfully with the maestro's anguished struggle to survive in Paris, and his physical suffering. He saw Wagner as a wage-slave enchained by the 'filthy Jew' Schlesinger. 'The philistine today,' noted Goebbels, 'will read that with the comforting reflection that, yes, things were tough for Wagner. That's the artist's lot."

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On Joseph's view of his contemporaries

>" Looking around, he scowled at his smug, shallow-minded, pinstriped contemporaries, their lives dominated by the pay packet, football, and sex, and he understood why the communists hated the bourgeoisie"
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So basically he couldnt get published so he blamed the jews

On Joseph's years of unemployment after leaving the bank

>"The diaries for the next years show him in a painful light-introspective to the point of obsession, scribbling plays, articles, and critiques for a public no larger than himself and, sometimes, the woman in his life. With dwindling hope but dull obstinacy he kept submitting the little, thirty-thousand word typescript of [his novel] 'Michael Voorman' to new publishers. He felt like a bird with clipped wings. Why even get up in the morning? 'Nothing awaits me-no joy, no suffering, no duty, no job.'"

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On Joseph's speech at a communist meeting

>"Once in June 1924 he and Fritz Prang visited a local communist meeting. Invited to speak, Goebbels was interrupted immediately: 'Capitalist swine!' He rounded on his heckler. 'Here is my purse,' he challenged. 'You show me yours. The one who has the most is the capitalist swine!' The miners and textile workers roared with laughter and allowed him to speak on."

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On twenty-seven year old Joseph writing for Völkische Freiheit

>"Under [...] Goebbels the weekly became readable and hard hitting. He was not happy with his writing style, but practice made perfect and his thoughts flowed fast and free. He installed a sub-office in his parental home. As his twenty-seventh birthday came and went his parents were astounded by the change. He still lounged around unshaven, but he had a sense of purpose. He increased his literary intake still more: he digested ten newspapers each day, and dealt with correspondence until two or three A.M. He began a new article, 'The Basic Problems of Jewry.' His parents stopped nagging. His fame as orator and writer was noised across the Rhineland. True, he was not being paid, but this fame was gratification enough"

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On Joseph losing his job at the paper due to infighting

>"Three days later Wiegershaus invited him to resign, and he cast his lot with [friend and Nazi organizer] Kaufmann instead. His personal life now was overshadowed by a humiliating lack of funds. He was often unable to pay his rent or buy food, but when Kaufmann needed it desperately Goebbels proudly loaned him his last forty marks. They became firm friends; Kaufmann was one of the very few men he addressed as du."

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On Joseph's anger after being forced to resign and return to poverty

>"To forget his own poverty he would crawl, his stomach aching for nourishment, into a church pew to hear St. Matthew's Passion with tears streaming down his cheeks at the beauty of the music. He found it hard to make true friends. He found his Alsatian dog more likeable than many a human being; indeed, he began to hate the human race as he often wrote in his diary""

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Noticing a pattern here

>tfw you're literally Goebbels

On Joseph's fears for the future

>"His romantic escapades left him filed with self-hatred too. Else now rarely wrote to him, having found him juvenile and adolescent. He had started a parallel relationship with another girl, Elisabeth Gensicke, but nothing came of it. 'From year to year,' he reflected, 'I shall be more and more lonely until I end up all alone without love and without a family.' That was his dread"

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On Joseph being evicted from his lodgings

>"his landlord gave him notice to quit his lodgings at No.122 Gesundheit Strasse ('Health Street') in Elberfeld. His parents had sent him 150 marks. 'Damn and blast!' he let fly in his diary, and an unkind Fate, hearing him, responded with a final tax demand for 150 marks"

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On Joseph's first experience with Nazism

>"The Weimar meeting [in August 1924] was a milestone in his career. He gained immediate inspiration from the well-attended rally at the National Theatre and the shouts of Heil. He saw for the first time the swastika-this curious four-elbowed symbol-and inked it into his diary. He spotted his old lecturer Professor Kaerst from Wurzburg there, at the back, wearing a swastika and noted: 'Et tu, Brute!' 'All these young people who are fighting alongside me,' he wrote. 'It does my heart good.'"

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On Joseph's intention to honour Nazi ideology

>"That afternoon, still an outsider, he watched the flags and swastikas parading-some thirty thousand marching men in his estimate. The tumultuous roars of Heil when Hitler's name was mentioned made a lasting impression. For a while he sat with [childhood friend] Fritz Prang in a bar [...]. Fritz wanted to relax but Goebbels was so keyed up that he talked only about politics, ignoring the come-hither glances directed, he claimed in his diary, at him by the girls all around. He had found a new passion. 'I have begun to think volkisch,' he wrote. 'It is a Weltanschauung, a philosophy of life. Pure chance had decreed that he emerge from his hibernation here on the far right, and not the left."

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On Joseph's admiration for the imprisoned Hitler

>" 'We are all missing him,' he confessed to his diary. In Hitler, whom he had yet to meet, he saw the unifying concept of the movement-'The fixed pole around which all national socialist thinking orbits."

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> ugly Germanics and their autism

southern europe, please separate

Where can I find his diaries before 1925? Preferable in German, but English is fine as well.

On Joseph's speeches as an early Nazi

>"He recognized in himself the elements of a 'ripe old demagogue' and set about refining his delivery. [...] Ruthlessly mixing metaphors, he recorded that the flames would rage on and he would reap later what he was sowing now. Other workers asked to hear the Little Doctor speak. A locomotive engineer brought his mates to hear him in an ugly tavern in the Ruhr. 'I have found a firm objective,' Goebbels wrote, 'one to which my eyes unblinking turn. This objective is: Freedom for Germany!' Over the next year he would deliver no less than 189 speeches, learning to cast off all cant and phoney philosophizing, becoming preacher, apostle, and agitator alike"

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On the French occupation repressing the movement and Joseph's avoiding capture

>"The same old grief,' he observed in his diary. 'But an Idea cannot be put down.' And, ten days later: 'Prosecution and arrests by the French_ They've knocked us flat. This is the proof that our Idea is the right one.' He had founded a local group at Krefeld, and often spoke to them: one evening three Belgian detectives appeared, blocked the doors, and asked him if 'a Dr Goebbels' was in the hall. Goebbels replied calmly, 'He's busy right now, I'm speaking on his behalf.' The officials left empty handed."

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On the growing crowds attending his speeches

>"He now drew audiences of two and three thousand with ease. Often there were as many thugs outside, armed with firearms too. At Dusseldorf on October 8, 1925 the communists for miles around packed in, but within minutes he had silenced them and held them in his grip for two hours"

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On Joseph and Adolf's first meeting

>"On July 12 [1925] Hitler called all the party's gauleiters [regional supporters] of northern Germany to Weimar, and it was in a beerhall here that he and Goebbels first briefly met that day."

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Looking around, he scowled at his smug, shallow-minded, pinstriped contemporaries, their lives dominated by the pay packet, football, and sex, and he understood why the communists hated the bourgeoisie

On Joseph joining the Nazi newspaper Volkisher Beobachter

>”In Munich, Hitler had revived the Party newspaper Völkischer Beobachter and Alfred Rosenberg, its editor, invited Goebbels to submit occasional pieces from May. He wrote by day and made speeches by night. He did not flinch from the ugly scenes that often resulted. After he spoke at a flag dedication ceremony at Remscheid on June 6 there was a battle with communists in the railroad tunnel and the police arrested 150 of his opponents. ‘I was in the thick of it,’ he chortled. ‘The two factions went berserk and waded into eachother. What a way to One Nation!’”

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On the demanding journey to give speeches across Germany

>”He was living a gypsy existence, changing trains and lodgings with almost equal frequency. He was driving himself to the limit. His diary entries often end with a motif that remains unchanged for years—of dropping off exhausted to bed, for only a few hours’ sleep. He crisscrossed his tough industrial domain, in painfully slow local trains, setting eyes also on Lübeck, Hamburg […], the Ruhr cities smouldering in their infernal polluted semi-darkness, and Hamburg again (‘German sweat and German enterprise, exploited by the Jews.’)”

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On Joseph’s romantic longing and revised view of women

>” He wished he had hearth, home, and family to greet him at Elberfeld; but he found permanent relations with women difficult to achieve. He placed these remote, cantankerous creatures on a sort of pedestal.

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On Joseph’s attitude towards sex

>”He was […] profoundly indignant when he saw Hamburg’s red-light district around the Reeperbahn, with the half naked hookers standing in their doorways. A local Party official later recalled that one keen young S.A. man asked, ‘Doktor, what’ll we do with streets like this after the revolution?’, and Goebbels snarled in reply: ‘We shall sweep them away like the garbage that they are!’ He went on to develop a picture of a Germanic youth elite unexampled in purity and virtuousness since the days of the crusades and monastic orders. ‘I could have wept!’ he noted afterwards privately. ‘Can men do that? For money?’ He saw Germany’s blonde girls embracing slit-eyed Chinamen in the street; the police just stood by grinning..."

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On Joseph’s regret that women are inferior

>” He seldom took his women to his meetings, and no longer sent his writings to them either. After Else wrote him a despairing letter shortly before Christmas he lamented, ‘Why can’t women be like us? Can they be educated? Or are they by their very nature inferior? Only in exceptional cases can women be heroines!’ ‘There is a curse cast over you and women,’ he told himself piteously five days later. ‘Woe betide those who love you!”

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On Joseph and Adolf’s second meeting in November 1925

>”He’s just having a meal [described Goebbels]. At once he jumps to his feet and shakes my hand like an old friend. And those big blue eyes of his! Like stars! He’s pleased to see me. I am in transports of delight. After ten minutes he withdraws. Then he has his speech ready in outline. Meanwhile I am driven over to the meeting, and speak for two hours. Huge applause, and then shouts of Heil and applause: he is there. He shakes my hand. He is still completely exhausted after his own great speech. Then he speaks here for half an hour too. With wit, irony, humour, and sarcasm, with seriousness, with fervour, with passion. This man’s got everything to be a king. The born popular leader! The coming dictator”

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On Joseph and Adolf’s third meeting later in November 1925

>”Two days later he met Hitler again, in Saxony. Hitler invited him to speak first (‘How small I feel!’) then presented him with his photograph inscribed with greetings to the Rhineland. The framed portrait would remain on Goebbels’ desk until the very hour he died.”

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On growing Communist violence at Joseph’s rallies

>”The communist violence at his own meetings was getting out of hand. The meetings often ended with riots, with shattered beer mugs and splintered furniture. At Chemnitz on November 18 he put his views on Lenin and Hitler to two thousand communists, who listened in silence. Then a thousand beer glasses were smashed, 150 people were injured and one (or two) men killed”

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I'm reading this whole thing OP it's interesting

On Joseph’s first arrival in Berlin and hatred of the ‘Judenpresse’

>”On Thursday November 26, 1925 he arrived in Berlin for the first time […] The Nazi Party here in Berlin was weak, probably less than one thousand names. Dr Ernst Schlange, a civil servant, was the local gauleiter [regional leader]. He had lost an arm and half his face in the war […] [Joseph] later learned that the police once found a bottle of liquor and an alarm clock in Schlange’s pockets—the ‘Judenpresse’ laughed that without the one he could not live and without the other he could not wake out of his stupors.”

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On Joseph’s dislike of radio

>”At Rheydt he found that his father had bought a radio set— ‘the modern mind-narrowing device,’ scoffed his son. ‘Everything piped in! The philistine’s ideal!’”

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On Joseph’s program / manifesto to be presented at the 1926 Hannover conference

>”Goebbels spent most of December on it […]. The redrafting was harder than he had anticipated. In its final form it comprised twenty-four basic demands: they were militantly anti-bourgeois. The Party would respect private property, but nationalise all heavy industry and the great land estates. Meanwhile he set about literary projects of his own including a portrait gallery of political personalities, and a collection of his own political letters, ‘The Second Revolution.’”

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Going by the fact Irving got a bunch of his microfilms stolen by other (((historians))), the only way to access the diaries might be to contact the russian authorities directly. Specifically, the non-public section of the Moscow State Archives.

Why not just read Irving's Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich though? It's basically a completely non-(((partisan))) synthesis of Goebbels diaries. If a book a bit under 800 pages long can be called a synthesis.

It's even for free download officially in Irving's website. No epub, sadly, but a pdf is good enough if it's officially free:
fpp.co.uk/books/Goebbels/index.html

On Joseph’s continued fascination with the opposite sex

>”For the time being he is still preoccupied with the opposite sex. They are a welcome distraction from work, a habit rather like the cigarette smoking which he now finds impossible to give up […] His roving eye appraises every handsome woman regardless of social or marital standing. He ogles anonymous women on seaside vacations and indeed why not? He is young and eligible. ‘Opposite me,’ he writes one July day in a Berchtesgaden hotel, ‘sits a beautiful, beautiful woman.’ He spends three days stalking this gorgeous brunette— ‘she stays demure, and I am a silly ass. I am running after her like a schoolboy.’”

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On Joseph’s attending the 1926 Nazi rally at Weimar

>”His […] prepared talk on propaganda had Hitler in stitches. Hitler himself talked on politics, ideologies, and organisation. […]The photographs show him limping at Hitler’s side through Weimar’s cobbled streets, wearing a jacket buttoned just beneath his tieknot."

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On Joseph being invited to Adolf’s mountain villa

>”Up at his still modest mountain villa Hitler dilated on Germany’s social and racial questions; Goebbels fell in love with him all over again and decided that here was the creator of the Third Reich […] Hitler whiled away a whole rainy Sunday with him, spoiling him like a child. He became the Great Architect, talking of how he would set his mark upon Germany’s cities; then the Great Statesman, setting out the new constitution he would impose on Germany. ‘Now,’ wrote Goebbels, hypnotized, leaving him on July 25, ‘the last doubts in me have vanished. Germany will live! Heil Hitler!’”

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On Joseph falling for a woman in his train carriage on the way home from visiting Adolf

>”His brain awhirl with these impressions, he is still nursing Hitler’s farewell bouquet of red roses as he boards the overnight train back to the Rhineland. A beautiful woman shares his compartment. She talks engagingly with him, and they arrange to meet in Düsseldorf on the morrow. He limps around the city for two hours searching for her, but without luck.”

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>”His […] prepared talk on propaganda had Hitler in stitches.
Do you happen to know the contents of that talk or where I could find it? I wonder what could have said to make Hitler laugh with ideas about propaganda.
I alsofind it abit ironic that Goebbels apparently hated the radio but would then later use the Volksempfänger for his propaganda.

OP here. I don't have any notes about that speech unfortunately. And yes, I've included some quotations because of their ironic quality.

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On Joseph being chosen to win Berlin for the Nazis

>”He who held Berlin held Germany. Winning the ‘Red city’ was the task that confronted Dr Goebbels. Hitler gave him authority to rule the gau [region] with an iron fist. […]The Reich capital was like no other city in Europe—over-populated, throbbing with life twenty-four hours a day. It was an international hodgepodge of races, the collision point of western and eastern cultures. This gigantic, sprawling heap of bricks and stone and asphalt was divided into twenty boroughs varying in size from wealthy Zehlendorf […] to the proletarian slum Kreuzberg […]. Politically the city was a red stronghold like the towns all around— Oranienburg, Nauen, Fürstenwalde, and Zossen. Goebbels would find only a few hundred paid up Nazis in Berlin.”

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On the Jewish population of Berlin at the time

>”By the time of Goebbels’ arrival, one-third of Germany’s half-million Jews were concentrated in the city. They made up 4.3 percent of its population: but they provided over half Berlin’s lawyers, fifteen percent of the real estate agents, and nearly eleven percent of the doctors; they dominated the wealthy ranks of Berlin’s dentists, pharmacists, judges, public prosecutors, and academics, and maintained a near stranglehold on the world of the arts. While Mosse’s Berliner Tageblatt would become one of Goebbels’ principal enemies, he would lump all the bourgeois newspapers into the general category of ‘Judenpresse.’ […] Dr Heinrich Brüning, Chancellor of the Reich from 1930 to 1932, could find only one bank not controlled by them”

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On Jewish crime in Berlin and Germany at the time
>” In 1930 Jews would be convicted in forty-two of 210 known narcotics smuggling cases; in 1932 sixty-nine of the 272 known international narcotics dealers were Jewish. Jews were arrested in over sixty percent of the cases of running illegal gambling dens; 193 of the 411 pickpockets arrested in 1932 were Jews. In 1932 no fewer than thirty-one thousand cases of fraud, mainly insurance swindles, would be committed by Jews. Statistical comparisons are of course usually odious, but it was against this background that Goebbels now started his campaign.”

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I refuse to not believe in you.

>I alsofind it abit ironic that Goebbels apparently hated the radio but would then later use the Volksempfänger for his propaganda.
If you think THAT is ironic...

>The charity makes him a final loan of 250 marks. At Munich he studies under
>the Swiss art historian, Professor Heinrich Wölfflin; he studies music under
>Professor Hermann Ludwig Baron von der Pfordten and catholic theology
>under Professor Joseph Schnitzer. But his real intellectual nourishment is
>from what he takes in at the galleries and museums – the paintings of Arnold
>Böcklin, of Carl Spitzweg, and of Anselm Feuerbach. He reads voraciously,
>devouring Sophocles’ drama Antigone, August Strindberg’s The Red Room,
>Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice, and assorted works by Henrik Ibsen and Leo
>Tolstoy.
>He auctions his suits, sees Anka pawn her own Gold watch, and hocks his own
>watch for a pittance to – he recalls in 1925 – an ‘insolent Jew.’ Such stereotyped
>references are rare in his early letters. On the contrary, he sends Anka a gentle
>rebuke (JG to Anka Stalherm, Feb 17, 1919).
>‘As you know, I can’t stand this exaggerated antisemitism,’ he writes,
>in a reference to their teacher Gerhard Bartels. ‘I can’t claim that many of my
>best friends are Jews, but my view is you don’t get rid of them by huffing and
>puffing, let alone by pogroms – and if you could do so that would be both
>highly ignoble and unworthy.

On Joseph’s battle with Berlin police chief Dr Bernhard Weiss

>”Bernhard Weiss would become Goebbels’ sworn enemy—not just because of the rigour with which he deployed his fourteen thousand truncheon-wielding uniformed police in the struggle for the streets of Berlin, but because he was a Jew and even his best friends said he looked like a caricature of one. […] His battle against the Jews turned into a battle against one man, the deputy police chief Dr Weiss. The sheer scale of the legal battle fought between them can be judged from the court records. The police targeted [Goebbels] with no fewer than forty court actions; Weiss himself was involved in twenty-three cases."

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On police chief Weiss’s crusade against Joseph

>”Tirelessly and at taxpayers’ expense Weiss fought the battles against Goebbels and his newspaper: the court dockets ooze with his cold fury at irreverent cartoons […] at its caricatures […] and even at a crossword puzzle, whose solution turned out to be: ‘Get out Angriff until Isidor’s [Joseph’s nickname for Weiss] defeated.’”

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On Joseph accusing alleged Jew Bernhard Weiss of anti-semitism

>”’why does Dr Bernhard Weiss have us up before the judge just because we call him ‘Isidor’? Does he think the name doesn’t suit him? Or does it suit him too well—perhaps because Isidor is a euphemism for a Jew? Since when was it derogatory to be a Jew, then?’. The supreme court in Leipzig found with Goebbels that to call a Jew a Jew was no more defamatory than to call a catholic a catholic.”

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>The supreme court in Leipzig found with Goebbels that to call a Jew a Jew was no more defamatory than to call a catholic a catholic.
rekt

On Joseph’s impact on the Nazi HQ in Berlin

>”over the coming months he forced a level of activity that Berlin had not seen before; he founded a Nazi speakers’ school, he developed a constant, intrusive, drum-beating propaganda, he provoked clashes with the communists that hit Berlin’s newspaper headlines time and again. On Sunday November 14 he led a deliberately provocative propaganda march through the working-class suburb of Neukölln which aroused both fury and consternation among the local communists; the newspapers reported that in the ensuing disorders use was made of ‘missiles, knuckle-dusters, clubs, and even pistols.’Cutting out the dead wood, he threw out half of their members”

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On Joseph causing mischief

>”He had already acquired a taste for the rough and tumble of radical politics. He led a raiding party on a theatre staging an award-winning but anti-German play by Carl Zuckmayer. Goebbels’ Nazis hurled stink bombs into the audience and he was disappointed that only five women swooned”

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On Joseph radicalizing the unemployed and disillusioned

>”His tactical object was to capture the communists’ pawns, the unemployed hordes of Berlin. Typical of his S.A. foot soldiers was the young law student Horst Wessel, whose diary we now have. Aged just nineteen, he had joined the Party that autumn. ‘How I came to the National Socialists?’ he asked. ‘Out of disillusion really. My nationalist radicalism, or rather my radical nationalism had not found a home. But the Nazis, as they were already called, were radical—radical in every respect."

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On Joseph’s reaction to being mocked at a rally

>”The olive-complexioned Goebbels had just recommended his audience to display their ‘forceful gratitude’ to a journalist on Germania who boasted the suspiciously Germanic name of Karl-Otto Graetz but was really, he said, a ‘swine of a Jew’ (Judensau) when Fritz Stucke, an elderly but politically active parson, called out sarcastically, ‘A fine image of Germanic youth you look!’. ‘I take it,’ shouted Goebbels, breaking the pained silence that followed and pointing to the doors, ‘that you’re keen to get flung out on your ear?’ When Stucke opened his mouth again, taunting Goebbels: ‘You mean you?’, burly young men bundled him downstairs, dragging him the last few yards by his feet.”

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On Joseph being banned from speaking in Berlin following the incident

>”The press smelt blood and tasted revenge […] Twenty four hours later the police served a restraining order on Dr Goebbels, banning him from speaking in Berlin, and dissolving his gau. They also charged him with incitement to violence. After just six months in Berlin the unstoppable gauleiter seemed to have run into an immovable object: the police president of Berlin”

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On Joseph’s return to public speaking after his ban

>”Goebbels claimed to have added six hundred new members during April. [1927]. ‘Let the gentlemen in Berlin,’ he said, ‘take note that the time will come when the National Socialists will pay them back in the same coin and with interest. Nothing will be forgotten.’”

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>August Strindberg’s The Red Room,

Any report on how he liked it? I'd imagine he'd hate Ibsen for being progressive vis-a-vis women's rights and Mann for being a pederast fag, but his reaction to Strindberg I think is hard to call. On the one hand, Strindberg could sort of resonate with the nazis, coming from the lower class but developing a sort of aristocratic contempt for the masses through artistic refinement, and on the other, he was at least a part time degenerate bohemian.

He read him in 1919, when he was still a college bohemian with serious religious doubts and a growing inclination towards socialism.

>manlet who cucked himself by looking after his wifes kids

Kek

>people who didn't start out hating jews start hating jews when they learn more about them

wow, what a hypocrit.

I just said it was ironic. Yeah, it's a logical sequence. For example:
>Starting [working] at the bank on January 2, 1923, he sees at first hand the unpalatable
>side of capitalism, and reacts with repugnance to the ‘sacred speculation’ by
>the rich and influential. The country’s banks, he finds, are nearly all Jewish.
>He begins to ponder upon the relationship between das Judentum (roughly,
>Judaism or the Jewish community) and the Money Problem. The more he
>looks around the more he perceives the Jews – young Otto Klemperer, whom
>he hears conducting a Gustav Mahler symphony, turns out to be a Jew; so
>does Mahler himself. He studies Houston Stewart Chamberlain and he finds
>himself troubled by the Jewishness of Else.
>He cannot ignore the contrasts. He himself has to set out from Rheydt each
>morning at five-thirty and gets home at seven or eight each night, while his
>pay packet shrinks in value through the galloping inflation that has set in.
>‘Cologne is ad nauseam,’ he writes. ‘Pay check worthless.’ (On March 27 he
>sends the Albertus Magnus Society a ten-thousand-mark banknote; it is worth
>less than one Gold mark.)

Idealist, left-wing liberal arts students become realist right-wingers when actually coming into the workforce. But still, much more ironic than the radio thing.

>tfw you'll never have a nickname even resembling Ulysses

>this kinda thread about the Unabomber
link pls

Your pathetic show of allegiance only undermines any value in your recommendation

Hey its unabomber-user thanks for doing Goebbels as well.

Which books did you use for this? Most of the english ones seem focused on the last years of the War.

>Your pathetic show of allegiance
Easy there with that frothing from the mouth.

I'm just pointing out that, unlike pretty much any other one, Irving's biography of Goebbels, which was the first one to be written directly from Goebbels diaries, doesn't directly take the jews' side, or any side from that matter.

That is not a show of allegiance - again, it's a show of the book's non-partisanship. And yeah, I'm also pointing out that the more... mainstream Goebbels biographies, like Peter Longerich's and Tobias Jersak's, borrow directly from this book, or at least from the research files that Irving made for the book and these two, and many others, stole.

Also, reading this thread, it looks like OP is using Irving's book (maybe among others, iunno) too.

But don't take my word for it. Hitchens was a jew, and he defended this book tooth and nail:
youtube.com/watch?v=fdxTsWXZdFc

Man, my grammar is currently atrocious.

Don't program for 10 hours straight and then try to write english coherently later, kids.

>scum backtracks to claim non-partisanship as soon as he's called out

You clearly haven't studied propaganda enough yourself

>scum backtracks to claim non-partisanship
Go reread the original post, you idiot:
>It's basically a completely non-(((partisan))) synthesis of Goebbels diaries

This is some fourth dimensional lack of self awareness

>It's basically a completely non-(((partisan))) synthesis of Goebbels diaries
>I'm just pointing out that [...] Irving's biography of Goebbels [...] doesn't directly take the jews' [represented by the echo parentheses when I say "non-(((partisan)))" in the first post you're quoting] side, or any side for that matter
Again, careful with that frothing of the mouth.

My grammar is atrocious atm, yeah, but not to the point of me being rendered 100% incomprehensible.

As someone who is literally Goebells, I can't help but feel like that radicalism is a trap. Sure, Judaism is satanic, but you're only strengthening it by fighting it directly.

Dude should have dealt with his Oedipus complex and learned to love himself, but I guess he didn't know how to sort himself out and that was the problem.

I don't know man