Verlag | Random House UK |
Auflage | 2016 |
Seiten | 992 |
Format | 12,9 x 19,8 x 4,3 cm |
B-format paperback | |
Gewicht | 672 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 0099523698 |
EAN | 9780099523697 |
Bestell-Nr | 09952369EA |
A revelatory biography of Hitler's Minister of Propaganda, from renowned German Holocaust historian Peter Longerich.
Klappentext:
Joseph Goebbels was one of Adolf Hitler's most loyal acolytes. But how did this club-footed son of a factory worker rise from obscurity to become Hitler's malevolent minister of propaganda, most trusted lieutenant and personally anointed successor?
In this definitive one-volume biography, renowned German Holocaust historian Peter Longerich sifts through the historical record - and thirty thousand pages of Goebbels's own diary entries - to answer that question. Longerich paints a chilling picture of a man driven by a narcissistic desire for recognition who found the personal affirmation he craved within the virulently racist National Socialist movement - and whose lifelong search for a charismatic father figure inexorably led him to Hitler.
This comprehensive biography documents Goebbels' ascent through the ranks of the Nazi Party, where he became a member of the Führer's inner circle and launched a brutal campaign of anti-Semitic propaganda. Goebbels delivers f resh and important insight into how the Nazi message of hate was conceived, nurtured, and disseminated, and shreds the myth of Goebbels' own genius for propaganda. It also reveals a man dogged by insecurities and - though endowed with near-dictatorial control of the media - beset by bureaucratic infighting. And, as never before, Longerich exposes Goebbels's twisted personal life - his mawkish sentimentality, manipulative nature, and voracious sexual appetite.
This complete portrait of the man behind Hitler's message is sure to become a standard for historians and students of the Holocaust for decades to come.
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