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Lädt ... Goebbels: Eine Biographievon Ralf Georg Reuth
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. It is twenty yea-s since a serious biography of Goebbels was published. Ralf Georg Reuth here draws on a wealth of new source material to produce a brilliant account of Goebbels' life which will stand as the definitive biography for years to come. Some of this source material was held by the East Germans and Russians and has only been available since the fall of the Berlin wall. Goebbels was a small, spindly, highly intelligent man with a clubfoot and an inferiority complex who rose to power with Hitler and was, of all the Nazis, the strongest advocate of the extermination of the Jews. Reuth describes Goebbels' childhood in a strict, Catholic, lower-middle-class family; his poverty; his many affairs with women above his station; his political activity and intrigues in Berlin for Hitler; his career in the Third Reich; his wife and children; his suicide. The use of previously unavailable archival information and diaries, and carefully excavated eyewitness accounts, makes this not only an important social document, but a fascinating and gripping study of a monster. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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The story of the THird Reich as seen through the life of Hitler's propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Another thing implied is a picture of Goebbels as a complete non-entity without Hitler. The early part of his life is undistinguished and, in fact, boring. Only when he attaches himself to the NSDAP, first through Gregor Strasser and, later, Hitler, does he become a more animated being. I am willing to buy into this notion more firmly than the relatively power dependent figure discussed above. For without Hitler, it is clear that Goebbels was nothing. The "poison dwarf" only found purpose through anger and revenge at the bourgeois representatives of capital or the reactionary aristocratic class all of whom he felt conspired against people such as himself to keep them from their proper place in society. Only the arrival of Hitler into his life allowed Goebbels to focus his disappointments and anger in a way that gave value to the Nazis.
Lastly, there is an emphasis on Goebbels' commitment to socialism and a volkisch socialist revolution. He never let that notion go. It was the mechanism through which he wanted to overthrow the old aristocratic order when he was younger. And towards the end of the war it fed his fantasies about making a separate peace with the Soviets in order to fight the Allies on one front.
The tone of this biography, meanwhile, tends towards reflecting an objective attitude. On that score Reuth is much more akin to earlier biographers of the Nazis, such as Alan Bullock, although even Bullock was much more eager to assess and place blame on the likes of Goebbels for their actions than is Reuth. ( )