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Secret Sex Lives of Tyrants S01E03
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00:08Evil, powerful, uncompromising, ruthless, behind closed doors, a private hell.
00:21Tyrants often deviate in their sexual behavior.
00:26He fantasized about older women.
00:30He puts makeup on.
00:32He had thousands of concubines.
00:34They were this glamorous, gun-toting sex objects.
00:39Fire on designated targets.
00:41The psychological insights of the degenerate and deviant.
00:45He was obsessed with aphrodisiacs.
00:48It's typical of somebody who's sexually repressed.
00:52Power can change somebody.
01:0830,000 handwritten pages of bile and self-aggrandizement.
01:14Diaries written by the hand that helped conduct a genocide.
01:19Joseph Goebbels dreamt that his words would one day be quoted by descendants of the Third Reich.
01:25They mockingly stand today as testament to the man dubbed the Poisoned Dwarf.
01:32Tellingly, they also secretly document his own lecherous abuse of hundreds of German women.
01:40One of the most sexually powerful people amongst the leaders in the Third Reich.
01:46As Hitler's all-powerful Reich minister of propaganda, he was the face and voice of a regime that slaughtered six
01:54million Jews.
01:55He fervently believed that they are right, that they are the people who will control the entire world.
02:03In public, he was portrayed as the archetypal wholesome Nazi family man.
02:08But in private, Goebbels was a sadistic killer and sexual predator.
02:14He would even grab and fondle women in public in front of his wife.
02:22Described as the most prolific Casanova in the Nazi regime.
02:26He wrote in his journal about all of his sexual conquests, 30,000 pages.
02:33Joseph Goebbels would meet the criteria of what I think is best termed a sexual athlete.
02:39In other words, it was a competition.
02:41So you describe what you're doing, who you're doing it with, and you tick the box.
02:46And then you move on to the next one.
03:03Paul Joseph Goebbels was born on the 29th of October, 1897, in the Rhineland region of Western Germany,
03:12bordering France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
03:17At the turn of the century, the Rhineland was the heart of Germany's Industrial Revolution.
03:25Joseph's father, Fritz Goebbels, was a factory clerk, a strict Roman Catholic and a harsh disciplinarian.
03:34From his earliest years, it was his mother, Katerina, to whom young Joseph turned for comfort.
03:43Growing up, Goebbels really didn't like his dad much at all, but he was very close with his mother.
03:50And it's likely that that relationship influenced his future relationships with women.
03:58If you look at Goebbels' relationship with his parents, you see the same thing you see in Adolf Hitler.
04:05There's an overbonded, probably pathological relationship with a mother,
04:11and a distance, even a hostility, towards a father who's perceived as absent, cruel, all those things.
04:19Joseph, seen here with his brother, took communion aged 12.
04:25Without money or social standing, he even contemplated the priesthood,
04:29an historical sliding door moment barely comprehensible with the monster he would become.
04:36But Joseph was not a healthy child.
04:39Smaller than the other kids, he had a club foot,
04:42believed to be due to polio, osteomyelitis, or perhaps a congenital deformity.
04:48He was a shrimp, and he was a shrimp with a limp.
04:53Goebbels suffered from polio, and this caused him to have a physical disability.
04:58And that, of course, impacted his psyche growing up.
05:03It caused him to feel insecure, low self-esteem, inferior.
05:08He had a physical handicap.
05:11And at that time and in that society, that wasn't something easy to live with.
05:18But he translated that into leaning in on his sharp intellect.
05:24It is here that he garnered the most power.
05:29Joseph's parents paid for corrective surgery to his club foot.
05:33It failed.
05:35His physical disability would curse Goebbels for life.
05:41He later wrote in his diary,
05:45From that moment, my youth held little joy for me.
05:49I had to look after myself and could no longer join in the other children's games.
05:54I became lonely and solitary.
05:58My former friends had no affection for me.
06:03Goebbels' diaries reveal, by their sheer obsessiveness,
06:08the fact that he was preoccupied with his own image,
06:13his self-esteem, and how he was perceived by the world.
06:17But what Goebbels did possess was a formidable intellect.
06:22His brain compensated for his physical deformities.
06:28He was very pushy, extremely ambitious,
06:33extraordinarily reaching for heights that were out of the ordinary.
06:41Together with this intellectual drive and physical insecurity,
06:46went to hyperactive libido.
06:48In his mid-teens, Goebbels began to yearn for sexual encounters with older women.
06:55So Goebbels' fantasy about older women
06:58is typical of somebody who's sexually repressed.
07:01So an older woman would seem knowledgeable, sexually experienced,
07:06one that, like a sexual mother,
07:09will replace the mother but work with them sexually.
07:16Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot down by a Serbian patriot,
07:20and the greatest war the world had known exploded in Europe.
07:25In 1914, Germany's territorial ambitions swept across Europe.
07:31But as thousands of young men marched into the Great War,
07:35Goebbels was rejected by the army due to his club foot.
07:39When we read accounts of Goebbels,
07:43it's obvious that he did overcompensate for his physical ability.
07:48He was extremely ambitious.
07:52So he was overcompensating, I believe,
07:56for his physical deformity and his problems as a child in competitive sports.
08:04Humiliated at his rejection by the military,
08:07Goebbels instead threw himself into academia at Bonn University.
08:12He studied literature first,
08:14and that was, of course, a very good basis
08:17for becoming the world's greatest propagandist.
08:20Goebbels' appetite for learning, like his sex drive, was insatiable.
08:25He quickly learned that having a sharp intellect
08:28would compensate for his feelings of physical inadequacy
08:31in all sorts of ways.
08:36Then, as a student at Freiburg,
08:39Goebbels met pretty 21-year-old Anka Stalhelm.
08:43The attraction was mutual.
08:47But Anka's parents did not approve.
08:50Her well-to-do mother referred to Goebbels as
08:53Anka's penniless, crippled boyfriend.
08:56When Anka broke off their affair in 1920
08:59and started seeing another man,
09:01it is said that Goebbels threatened to take his own life.
09:06In his diary, Goebbels wrote about the eroticism of death.
09:10And it seemed for a moment
09:12as if the world might be spared
09:15the life of this disturbed, malevolent creature.
09:23Four calamitous years of world war
09:26had left much of Europe in ruins
09:29and Germany a pariah.
09:31The first world war of our time was over.
09:36The news of the armistice was a bit premature,
09:40but that didn't prevent a full-scale celebration
09:43in Times Square.
09:45But for the Germans,
09:47the cost of peace was pain and poverty.
09:53Germany was a country
09:54that was completely decimated
09:56by the First World War.
09:58The Victoria's allies
10:00really wanted Germany to pay for the war.
10:03These reparations absolutely bankrupted the country.
10:07In Germany in the 1920s,
10:09there was massive unemployment,
10:11hunger and skyrocketing inflation,
10:14the perfect breeding ground for fascism.
10:17People would go to buy a loaf of bread
10:19with one wheelbarrow full of money
10:21and by the time they got there,
10:23found they needed another.
10:24There was starvation.
10:26The fledgling Weimar Republic
10:27really was on its knees.
10:30The inflation ruins the middle classes
10:32and the workers.
10:34Hitler holds the Republic responsible
10:36for the distress and misery.
10:37A new political movement emerged,
10:40national socialism.
10:42Its vigorous leader promising
10:44to sweep away the old establishment
10:46and to make Germany great once again.
10:49Here you have Goebbels
10:51who's looking for some way
10:53of finding a meaning in life
10:56and this fits in perfectly.
10:59We've been betrayed.
11:00I can be one of the people
11:01who make us great again.
11:03But the way I'm going to do it
11:05is with the only thing
11:06I've got going so far,
11:08which is my intellect.
11:10After completing his doctorate,
11:12Goebbels had returned
11:13to his hometown, Raitt,
11:15where he worked on novels
11:17and journalism.
11:18His interest in nationalism grew
11:21and in 1922,
11:23he started a relationship
11:24with a schoolteacher,
11:26Elsa Janka.
11:28How great it was yesterday.
11:31Today I am so happy.
11:33It is so nice
11:34that I can respect you so much
11:35and you should know
11:36that I also want to be good
11:38and noble.
11:39Their relationship flourished
11:41during these turbulent times.
11:43In common with an ever-growing segment
11:46in German society,
11:48Goebbels blamed the Jews
11:49for Germany's defeat
11:50in World War I
11:51and subsequent bankruptcy.
11:54Imagine his horror
11:55when he discovered
11:56his new love's mother
11:59was Jewish.
12:03She told me her roots.
12:05Since then,
12:06her charms were destroyed for me.
12:12In 1924,
12:14Goebbels joined
12:15the National Socialist
12:17German Workers' Party,
12:19Adolf Hitler's Nazis.
12:21Goebbels found a home
12:24when he found Hitler
12:25and the Nazi Party.
12:27This was the ultimate way
12:29for him to exercise
12:30his sharp intellect.
12:32And Hitler recognized that
12:33immediately
12:34when he met Goebbels.
12:36Hitler was so impressed
12:38by Goebbels' loyalty,
12:39skill,
12:40and rabid anti-Semitism
12:42that in 1926,
12:44he appointed him
12:45the Nazi Party chief
12:46for Berlin.
12:48Goebbels established himself
12:50as an impressive speaker,
12:52agitator,
12:53and master propagandist.
12:54To his delight,
12:56he discovered
12:57his newfound prominence
12:58also won him
12:59new female fans.
13:01The entire humming
13:03of Nazi Germany
13:05was because
13:06of Goebbels' ability
13:08to draw attention
13:10to the agenda
13:12of the Third Reich.
13:13Everybody remembers
13:15his comment
13:15that if you repeat
13:16a lie often enough,
13:18people will believe it.
13:20The age of
13:23a Jewish intellectual
13:25is now to end.
13:28Goebbels preyed
13:29upon the hardship
13:30of the German people
13:31and tapped
13:32into their resentment
13:33to stir up
13:34the most ancient
13:35of human hatreds.
13:36They needed a scapegoat.
13:38Anti-Semitism
13:38was rife throughout Europe
13:40in the 1930s anyway,
13:41so they were just
13:43grabbing onto something
13:44that was already
13:45in its beginnings.
13:46The seeds of hatred
13:47were already there
13:49and Hitler and Goebbels
13:51said that the Jewish people
13:53were responsible
13:54for the fact
13:55that Germany
13:55lost the First World War.
13:59Goebbels weaponised
14:00anti-Semitic tropes
14:02to elevate his own standing
14:04and that of the Nazi Party.
14:05Goebbels did an amazing job
14:08of promoting
14:08not just Hitler
14:09but the Nazi Party
14:11and its imagery.
14:13And it wasn't just
14:14the German people
14:15in his thrall.
14:17Goebbels soon had
14:18the attention
14:18of the world's media.
14:21They said that persons
14:22of a so-called
14:23German blood
14:25were a master race
14:27entitled to subjugate
14:28or even exterminate
14:30other races.
14:31Goebbels had
14:32the unique ability
14:33to understand
14:34that if you keep
14:36telling a lie
14:37over and over again,
14:38people will believe it.
14:39And because he was already
14:41in this position
14:42as the minister
14:43of propaganda,
14:44those lies
14:45were gobbled up
14:47by the masses.
14:49Scarcely out of kindergarten,
14:50the child must take
14:51the place allotted to him
14:52in the great Nazi scheme.
14:54And from then on,
14:55think and act
14:56as he is told.
14:58So not just targeting
15:00unemployment
15:01or the financial crisis,
15:03but the racial targets,
15:05the slurs on the Jews,
15:06for example,
15:07all started to work
15:08their way into
15:09these speeches
15:10and soon became
15:12the only subject
15:13of those speeches.
15:14And people believed them
15:16because of the way
15:17that they were delivered.
15:32But even as Goebbels
15:34skillfully controlled
15:35the Nazi message
15:36to the masses,
15:37he couldn't control
15:38what his own peers
15:40were saying about him
15:41behind his back
15:42or indeed certain sections
15:44of the world's media
15:45about the irony
15:47of the alleged master race
15:48being led by such
15:50unprepossessing
15:51physical specimens.
15:53And limping
15:54Joseph Goebbels,
15:55plenty potentiary
15:56for total war effort,
15:58whipping German morale
15:59to further frenzies
16:00of resistance,
16:01the man whose mouth
16:02utters all
16:03of Hitler's lies.
16:05And the contrast
16:06is astonishing
16:07because you can look
16:09at Hitler,
16:10this marginal Austrian
16:12of no achievement
16:13whatsoever
16:14in the past.
16:15You look at Goebbels
16:16himself,
16:17this miserable,
16:20stunted guy
16:20with that limp.
16:21Where is the Aryan image there?
16:25But they managed
16:26to ride over that.
16:27The Nazi party
16:28gave Goebbels a voice,
16:30a platform,
16:31and power.
16:32And he soon realised
16:34he could use it
16:35to pursue women
16:36for sex.
16:37So when he starts
16:38getting on what we today
16:40call the dating scene,
16:41it's not good.
16:43His first relationship
16:45reminds him
16:46the fact that
16:47he's not going to be
16:48a great lover
16:50in women's eyes
16:50the way he looks.
16:52And the next few
16:53don't get very far.
16:54But once he starts
16:55getting into power,
16:57he starts learning
16:58not only how to
17:00sell propaganda,
17:02but how to sell himself.
17:04And that works
17:06very nicely for him.
17:07The lonely and solitary
17:09teenage Goebbels,
17:11whose self-pity
17:12had been so extensively
17:13diarised,
17:14had become
17:14an arrogant fanatic
17:16who could deliver
17:16a tub-thumping speech
17:18to an enwrapped audience.
17:20His distorted message
17:22of anti-Semitic rants
17:23cut through.
17:24Hitler loved it,
17:25and Goebbels
17:27revelled in it.
17:28So Goebbels
17:29found himself
17:30moving from
17:31a childhood
17:33where he was
17:34frail,
17:36unathletic,
17:38not handsome,
17:40not attractive,
17:42to an adulthood
17:44where he was
17:45the central cog
17:47in the major
17:49political movement
17:51in Germany
17:51and then the world.
17:54One of the women
17:55who'd been impressed
17:56by those rallies,
17:5729-year-old divorcee
17:59Magda Quant,
18:00went on to work
18:01for Goebbels
18:02and then
18:03fell for him.
18:06She was desirable
18:07to both Goebbels
18:08and Hitler
18:09because she was
18:11upper class,
18:12very much
18:13upper class,
18:14wealthy,
18:15educated,
18:16all the things
18:17they weren't.
18:18Even as they married
18:20in 1931,
18:22there were rumours
18:23that Magda
18:24was more interested
18:25in Hitler
18:26than in her
18:27new husband.
18:30Magda
18:31was fascinated
18:32with Hitler
18:34or maybe even
18:35infatuated
18:36with Hitler
18:37and,
18:38as far as I can tell,
18:39didn't really care
18:40much at all
18:41about Goebbels,
18:42but she wanted
18:43to be near Hitler
18:43and Goebbels knew
18:45that she wanted
18:46to be near Hitler
18:47and so he married her.
18:50And this contributed
18:52to his open philandery.
18:55Goebbels was using
18:57his wife to get
18:58closer to Hitler
18:59but at the same time
19:01he didn't quite
19:03know himself
19:04how far that had gone.
19:06He didn't know,
19:07for example,
19:09how much his wife
19:11was attracted to Hitler
19:12and how much Hitler
19:14was attracted to his wife.
19:15Even though he admired
19:17Frau Goebbels,
19:18Hitler would never
19:19have countenanced
19:20intimacy with her.
19:21And rather than
19:22confront his wife,
19:23Goebbels used
19:24her infatuation
19:25with the Fuhrer
19:26to his political advantage
19:28and to justify
19:30his aggressive pursuit
19:31of other women.
19:32Goebbels' marriage
19:33to Magda
19:34was ultimately a sham.
19:37This was really
19:38to appease Hitler
19:39and Magda's
19:40bizarre relationship.
19:42We don't see
19:43any evidence
19:43that Hitler and Magda
19:45actually consummated
19:46their relationship
19:47in any way
19:48but they were
19:48certainly very friendly
19:50and this contributed
19:51to this bizarre triangle
19:53between Goebbels,
19:54Magda and Hitler
19:56in which everyone
19:57was serving a purpose.
19:59There was a need
20:01for everyone
20:01to fit into that triangle.
20:03A sham it may have been
20:05but Magda bore Goebbels'
20:07six children
20:07and her popularity
20:09with Hitler
20:09ensured Goebbels'
20:11ascent to the pinnacle
20:12of Nazi leadership.
20:13Whilst the bizarre
20:15love triangle
20:16fueled gossip
20:16in Germany
20:17Hitler's rise
20:18to Chancellor
20:19in 1933
20:20ignited fear
20:22around the globe.
20:27January 30th, 1933
20:29Hitler's popularity
20:30was increasing
20:31by leaps and bounds.
20:32The people greeted
20:33the announcement
20:33of his becoming Chancellor
20:34with wild enthusiasm.
20:37For his help
20:39in Hitler's ascent
20:39to power
20:40the mastermind
20:41of the Nazi propaganda machine
20:43who was now
20:44widely referred to
20:45as the Poisoned Dwarf
20:46by the Fuhrer's entourage
20:48was handsomely rewarded.
20:51Hitler saw something
20:53in Goebbels
20:54and he gave him something
20:55that nobody else could
20:56and that was status.
20:58And from that status
21:00his power-hungry nature
21:02grew
21:03and it was voracious.
21:05At just 35 years old
21:07Joseph Goebbels
21:08became the youngest minister
21:10in Hitler's cabinet.
21:11He wasted no time
21:13using his newfound power
21:14to take away liberty's rights
21:16and freedom
21:17from those
21:18he and his beloved Fuhrer
21:20deemed
21:20untermensch
21:21or subhuman.
21:24Banned by the oratory
21:25of Hitler's minister
21:26of propaganda
21:27Goebbels
21:27anti-Semitism
21:29has swept Germany
21:30to fire and pillage.
21:32On the 1st of April
21:341933
21:35Goebbels launched
21:37the Nazis'
21:38official anti-Semitic campaign
21:40with a boycott
21:41of all Jewish businesses.
21:42The following month
21:44he initiated
21:45the public burning
21:46of what he termed
21:47un-German books.
21:49So the dichotomy
21:51of the 1933 book burnings
21:54headed up by
21:55Dr Goebbels
21:56is a very interesting one
21:57and I say doctor
21:58in that way
21:59because he was
21:59a doctor of literature.
22:02This man
22:02was a man of words.
22:04He was learned.
22:05He was well read.
22:06Right the way
22:07through his education
22:08he would have been reading
22:09great works of literature
22:11some of which
22:12would be by Jews
22:13and having a well-rounded education
22:15so the works of Freud
22:17and of Einstein
22:18would have been part
22:20of his being.
22:23And this shows you
22:24the intellectually
22:27anarchistic nature
22:28of Nazism.
22:30It's to destroy
22:31the establishment
22:32and recreate it
22:33on our own terms.
22:35Goebbels' education
22:36was fuelled
22:37by Jewish scholars
22:38Friedrich Gundolf
22:39and Max Freier
22:40von Valkberg
22:41and yet here he was
22:43calling on students
22:44to destroy
22:45all Jewish literary works.
22:48Why did he do it?
22:50Was he doing it
22:51for show
22:52to tow the party line
22:54to show people
22:55how they should be reacting
22:57to the Nazi regime
22:59or did he truly believe
23:01in what he was doing?
23:04What made him particularly hideous
23:06I think
23:07is that
23:08he could see
23:10the effect of his propaganda
23:12he could see
23:14what it was doing
23:15but he continued.
23:18Later that same year
23:20Goebbels became president
23:22of the newly formed
23:23Chamber of Nazi Culture.
23:25He now had control
23:28of the press
23:29literature
23:29radio
23:30fine arts
23:31theatre
23:32and films
23:33and the biggest
23:34casting couch
23:36in Germany.
23:37So he suddenly
23:38found himself
23:39at the centre
23:41of everything
23:42particularly
23:43because
23:44his work
23:45involved
23:46filming
23:47which involved
23:49glamorous women
23:52and these
23:53glamorous women
23:54were finding
23:56that
23:57Goebbels
23:58was at the centre
23:59of all the power
24:00and if they wanted work
24:02it was through him.
24:05You can take
24:06the worst Hollywood
24:07director
24:08and producers
24:09you've ever seen
24:10roll them all into one
24:11and you've got him.
24:13He interfered
24:14he poured money in
24:16but he manipulated
24:17and really saw it
24:19as a celluloid couch.
24:21on which he could
24:22bed anybody
24:23and everybody.
24:29The studios there
24:31actually gave him
24:32the nickname
24:32the Randy Goat
24:34of Babelsburg
24:35which was the location
24:36where the movie studios
24:37were in Germany
24:38at the time.
24:40Germany's most famous
24:41film director
24:42was Leni Riefenstahl.
24:44It is said
24:45that she only escaped
24:46Goebbels' clutches
24:47due to her sway
24:49with her number one fan
24:51Adolf Hitler.
24:52Others were not so lucky.
24:55If the actress
24:56wouldn't do what he want
24:57in other words
24:58go to bed with him
24:59he would just get rid of them
25:00and do what he could
25:01to block their career.
25:04He created a fabricated world
25:08in which he
25:11a person with physical disabilities
25:15a person who
25:18was not attractive
25:20became the center of attention
25:24of beautiful women
25:25he became the hero.
25:29In that fictional world
25:31he had the ideal family.
25:34In public
25:35Goebbels presented
25:37the image
25:37of the devoted husband
25:39and family man.
25:40With Hitler maintaining
25:42his singular aloofness
25:43the Goebbels
25:44became the unofficial
25:46first family
25:47of the Third Reich.
25:48But Goebbels
25:49had an affair
25:50that not even Hitler
25:51knew about
25:52at least initially.
25:53He had become
25:55totally besotted
25:56with the young
25:57Czech actress
25:58Lida Barova.
26:00The other issue
26:01was with a
26:02Czechoslovakian actress
26:04who had some
26:05Jewish roots
26:05and this was
26:06definitely forbidden.
26:08In fact
26:08she might have been
26:09one of the few women
26:10that slipped behind
26:11his guard
26:12because he was
26:13very reluctant
26:13to give her up.
26:15When Goebbels
26:16first met Barova
26:17she was already
26:18in a relationship
26:19with this leading man
26:20Gustav Fröhlich
26:22but that did not
26:23stop Goebbels.
26:27The affair
26:29ignited by his power
26:30over her career.
26:35These women
26:36stood no chance
26:37that Goebbels
26:39was going to take
26:39whomever he wanted
26:40and he did.
26:41As the young actress
26:43became more famous
26:44so did her fear
26:45of their affair
26:46being uncovered.
26:47But Barova was merely
26:49another conquest
26:50for the Nazi minister.
26:52His lecherous behavior
26:53was becoming
26:54more brazen.
26:55He would
26:56fondle a woman's breast
26:58or grab a woman's
26:59buttocks in public
27:00and people knew
27:02that he was
27:03this kind of
27:04public creepster
27:05but because he was
27:07so powerful
27:08people had to
27:09bow to his knee.
27:11He would even
27:11grab and fondle
27:13women in public
27:14in front of his wife.
27:15He had no qualms
27:18about talking
27:20about his sexual
27:21conquests.
27:22He wrote in his journal
27:23about all of his
27:25sexual conquests
27:2630,000 pages.
27:27Goebbels' diaries
27:29reveal by their
27:30sheer obsessiveness
27:33the fact that
27:34he was preoccupied
27:35with his own image
27:37his self-esteem
27:38and how he was
27:40perceived by the world.
27:42By this time
27:43Magda Goebbels
27:44was openly
27:45having an affair
27:46with Goebbels'
27:47right-hand man
27:47Karl Hunker
27:49and increasingly
27:50concerned Fuhrer
27:51felt obliged
27:52to step in.
27:53The relationship
27:54between Goebbels,
27:56Magda and Hitler
27:57became more
27:58complicated
28:01as Goebbels
28:02became
28:03more and more
28:05infatuated
28:07with this
28:07sleeping with
28:09other women
28:10outside his
28:12marriage
28:12and eventually
28:14he wanted
28:15to leave
28:16his wife
28:16but Hitler
28:18intervened
28:19and prevented
28:20Goebbels
28:21from leaving
28:22his wife.
28:23Goebbels'
28:24marriage
28:24and his public
28:25persona
28:26as the poster boy
28:27for Nazi family
28:28planning
28:28was simply
28:29too important
28:30to be sacrificed
28:31for the sake
28:32of his prodigious
28:33sexual appetite.
28:34Hitler simply
28:35would not tolerate
28:36them separating
28:37because it was bad
28:38for the whole
28:39Nazi family
28:41men
28:41family image.
28:43Despite his
28:44peccadillos
28:45Goebbels' star
28:46continued to rise.
28:48He took control
28:48of all newspapers
28:49and handed out
28:51millions of cheap
28:52radio sets
28:53so the German people
28:54could listen
28:55to the Nazi message.
28:57Only those
28:57who get behind
28:58the scenes
28:59know that this
28:59outward cheerfulness
29:00is the creation
29:01of Adolf Hitler's
29:02fanatic little
29:03propaganda minister
29:04Paul Joseph Goebbels.
29:06In the most
29:06concentrated
29:07propaganda campaign
29:08the world
29:08has ever known.
29:09By 1938
29:10Germany was
29:12on the march.
29:13Hitler's nationalist
29:14movement was
29:15escalating
29:15with terrifying
29:16speed and violence.
29:18And as the
29:19tentacles of his
29:20tyranny spread
29:21the need for
29:22Goebbels'
29:23stage management
29:24became ever
29:25greater.
29:25Hitler needed
29:27Goebbels
29:27because he
29:29needed propaganda
29:30to fabricate
29:32this image
29:34of himself
29:35and the Nazi
29:36movement.
29:40On the evening
29:41of November 9th
29:421938
29:42rioters destroyed
29:45synagogues
29:46and Jewish shops
29:47throughout Germany
29:48and Austria
29:49in what became
29:50known as the
29:51Kristallnacht
29:52or Night of the
29:54Broken Glass.
29:55The master of
29:57propaganda
29:57had manipulated
29:58the emotions
29:59of everyday
30:00German citizens
30:01driving them
30:02into horrific
30:03acts
30:04and set the
30:05stage for the
30:06onset of
30:07World War II.
30:09Goebbels had
30:09helped craft
30:10a new world
30:11order so
30:12twisted and
30:13perverse
30:14that it would
30:15soon claim
30:15the lives
30:16of millions
30:17even those
30:18closest to him.
30:29In March 1939
30:31German troops
30:33invaded
30:33Czechoslovakia.
30:34Six months
30:35later
30:36on the 1st
30:37of September
30:371939
30:38Germany
30:39launched
30:39a surprise
30:40attack
30:41on Poland
30:41triggering
30:42the start
30:43of the
30:44Second World
30:44War.
30:45Warsaw is
30:46bombed
30:47blasted
30:47and shelled.
30:48Poland
30:49is in
30:49ruin.
30:52Even as
30:53the Nazi
30:54war machine
30:55plunged
30:55Europe
30:56into chaos
30:56and Goebbels
30:58appropriated
30:59the airwaves
30:59of yet
31:00more conquered
31:01nations,
31:02in secret
31:02he continued
31:04to leverage
31:04his power
31:05and influence
31:06for sex.
31:07Joseph Goebbels
31:09would meet
31:10the criteria
31:10of what I think
31:11is best termed
31:12a sexual
31:13athlete.
31:14In other words,
31:15it was a
31:15competition.
31:17So you describe
31:18what you're doing,
31:19who you're doing,
31:20it with,
31:20and you tick
31:21the box
31:21and then you move
31:22on to the next
31:23one.
31:24And for somebody
31:25with very ambivalent
31:27feelings about
31:28himself physically,
31:30after all,
31:31he was disabled,
31:32he was deformed.
31:34This is his
31:34compensation.
31:36Doesn't matter what you do,
31:37it's the fact that you've done it
31:39and you're moving on to more.
31:41And his reaction to rejection
31:43was telling.
31:45When young German actress
31:47Annalise Ehrlich
31:48rejected his sexual advances,
31:50Goebbels cancelled her film.
31:55Really, every day he was gaining
31:57more power.
31:58As the Nazi party was,
32:00so was he.
32:01And that allowed him
32:03to indulge his sexual interest,
32:05grabbing on women in public,
32:07having sex with whomever he wished.
32:10That was built into the structure
32:13of his status and power
32:14as a result of the Nazi party.
32:17The same ruthlessness
32:18was later inflicted
32:19on Charlotte Teal,
32:21even though she had become
32:22well known for her starring role
32:24in the 1943 film,
32:26Titanic.
32:28Fame was no protection
32:29from Goebbels' predation.
32:31He was extremely
32:33emotionally manipulative.
32:35Maybe one of the most infamous
32:37and successful manipulators
32:40of all times.
32:43And Goebbels' relentless pursuit
32:46of sex was not limited
32:47to actresses.
32:50One of his secretaries
32:52reported that Goebbels
32:53would proposition the girls
32:54in the office,
32:55no matter how young they were.
32:59Tyrants often deviate
33:01in their sexual behaviour
33:04because they can.
33:06Because they deviate
33:08in all their other behaviours.
33:11They deviate
33:12in the use of power.
33:14They deviate
33:16in the use
33:18of relationships
33:20generally.
33:22Their relationships
33:24with their families
33:25are deviants.
33:27So the deviation
33:29of tyrants
33:30in the sexual arena
33:31is just a reflection
33:33of their general deviation.
33:35And it is because they can.
33:38They have the power
33:39to do it.
33:44In regimenting German thought,
33:46all radio programmes
33:48emanate from
33:48the Department of Propaganda.
33:50Every newspaper
33:51prints only
33:52what the state
33:53wants its people to read.
33:56From the safety
33:57of his Berlin ministry,
33:59well behind the front line,
34:01Goebbels became
34:02the public cheerleader
34:04for the most horrific genocide
34:06the world has ever seen.
34:09There are some deeply
34:11chilling speeches
34:13by Goebbels
34:14about the way
34:15that the Jews
34:16must pay
34:16about their downfall,
34:19what effectively
34:20becomes the Holocaust.
34:22And Goebbels
34:23is the mouthpiece
34:24for this.
34:25We don't want
34:27to forget the fact
34:28that Goebbels
34:29is probably
34:31the most notorious
34:32propagandist
34:33of all
34:34of the 20th century.
34:36but as a result
34:38of his lies,
34:39the lies
34:40that he told
34:41over and over again
34:42to make sure
34:42people would believe them,
34:44that millions
34:45of people died
34:46at his hand.
34:58And as the war
34:59turned against
35:00the Nazis,
35:01Goebbels
35:02demanded
35:02total war,
35:04a fight
35:04to the death
35:05by the German people
35:06for the sake
35:07of the craven
35:08Nazi creed
35:09for which Goebbels
35:10and so many others
35:11had sold
35:12their souls.
35:13As the combined
35:14might of the allied forces
35:16started to reclaim Europe,
35:17Hitler's dream
35:18was fast evaporating
35:20in a cloud
35:21of misery
35:21and self-destruction.
35:23Do you want
35:24to be totally
35:25and radical
35:27as we can
35:29and today
35:30can show you
35:31to the end?
35:34And that's why
35:36the word
35:38is now
35:38the word
35:39now,
35:42stand up
35:43and the storm
35:45breaks.
35:48His propaganda
35:50ministers' calls
35:51to action
35:51were now falling
35:52on deaf ears.
35:54He fervently
35:56believed in this
35:56thousand-year Reich
35:58that they are right,
35:59that they are
36:00the people
36:01who will control
36:02the entire world
36:03and oversee
36:04the downfall
36:05of the people
36:06that they want
36:06to subjugate
36:07or murder.
36:09Hitler rewarded
36:10Goebbels' fanaticism
36:11by giving him
36:13even greater powers
36:14in running
36:15the war effort.
36:15By 1945,
36:17he essentially
36:18became the second
36:19most powerful
36:20person in Germany.
36:22He was extraordinarily
36:23good at being
36:26the person
36:27who organized
36:28all their
36:29communications,
36:31who organized
36:32their propaganda
36:33schemes,
36:34and of course,
36:36for Hitler's movement,
36:38propaganda
36:38was central.
36:48But these words
36:49soon turned
36:50to poison
36:51and these words
36:52became responsible
36:53for the death
36:54of millions
36:55of people
36:56across the whole world.
36:57It's a crushing
36:58irony that
36:59Goebbels' rise
37:00to power
37:01was hastened
37:02by the Nazis'
37:03flailing war effort.
37:04The decimation
37:05of the Wehrmacht
37:06on the Eastern Front
37:07and then the successful
37:08landing of Allied troops
37:10at D-Day
37:10meant that Goebbels'
37:12incessant lies
37:13were more important
37:14than ever
37:14to try and prop up
37:15the Nazi myth.
37:18Nazis in full retreat
37:20less than three weeks
37:21after D-Day,
37:22crushing defeat
37:23for the master race.
37:24Our infantry
37:25smashes forward.
37:26By April 1945,
37:28however,
37:29no amount
37:30of propaganda
37:31could save
37:32the devastated
37:32and dying
37:33German war machine.
37:35On both sides
37:36of the river Spray,
37:37the charred
37:38and twisted graveyard
37:39of 300,000 Nazis.
37:41In four and a half years,
37:43Allied bombs
37:44hit Berlin
37:45day and night.
37:46Many buildings
37:47still standing
37:48are mere shells.
37:49As the Soviet Red Army
37:51moved into
37:51Eastern Germany
37:52and the Allies
37:53surged from the West,
37:55the last
37:55vestige
37:56of the hateful
37:57Nazi regime
37:58was caught
37:58in a deadly vice.
38:00So now you have
38:01the man who believed
38:02in the Nazi ideal
38:04until the very last days.
38:06The Russians
38:07are surrounding
38:08the bunker.
38:09They can hear the cannon.
38:10They know
38:11Hitler's going to kill himself
38:12and it's impossible
38:13to ignore reality
38:15any longer.
38:17They decide that
38:19if things aren't going
38:20to go their way,
38:20if Germany is going
38:21to lose the war,
38:22then Hitler
38:23and his partner
38:25who became his wife,
38:26Eva Braun,
38:27will commit suicide
38:28and Goebbels
38:30will do the same.
38:31He will follow Hitler
38:32to the grave.
38:38On April 30, 1945,
38:41a besieged Hitler,
38:42determined to avoid
38:44the very public humiliation
38:45of his long-time ally
38:47Mussolini,
38:48shot himself
38:51before his bodyguards
38:53carried out
38:54his instructions
38:54by burning his
38:56and Eva Braun's bodies.
38:58Bulletin!
38:59Adolf Hitler is dead!
39:01He is dead
39:02and how he died
39:03the world little cares.
39:05For Hitler's death
39:05millions have paid
39:06and millions are now
39:07thankful for justice.
39:10As per the instructions
39:11in Hitler's will,
39:13Goebbels became
39:14Chancellor of the Reich.
39:16But his time
39:17as the Supreme Leader
39:18of Germany
39:19would not only
39:20be short-lived,
39:21it would also reveal him
39:23as one of history's
39:24greatest cowards.
39:34Days before Hitler's death
39:36on April 30,
39:37Goebbels,
39:38his wife Magda
39:39and their six children
39:41had moved into the bunker
39:42beneath the Reich Chancellery.
39:46I will always be proud
39:48of having belonged
39:49to a family
39:50that even in adversity
39:52and up to the last moment
39:54has been faithful
39:56to the Fuhrer
39:57and his pure
39:58and holy cause.
40:00Having served
40:01only a day
40:02as Chancellor,
40:03Goebbels prepared
40:04to follow his beloved Fuhrer
40:06to his death.
40:07But he wouldn't go alone.
40:09What Hitler had done
40:11in committing suicide,
40:13they now needed
40:15to do as well.
40:16That was their final
40:18act of loyalty to him.
40:20Magda Goebbels
40:21tied white ribbons
40:23in her daughter's hair
40:24before sedating
40:25all six children.
40:27She and Joseph
40:28then forced them
40:29to drink
40:30a lethal dose
40:31of cyanide.
40:50What sort of man
40:52decides that
40:53because he's done,
40:55because his power
40:56is taken away,
40:57that also means
40:58that the six children
41:00that he has brought
41:00into the world
41:01also deserve to die
41:03and so does his wife.
41:05Having murdered
41:06their children,
41:07Magda and Joseph Goebbels
41:08then went upstairs
41:09and with the help
41:11of the SS,
41:12they committed suicide
41:14before their bodies
41:15were burned.
41:18Only this time,
41:20there wasn't enough petrol
41:21to do the job properly,
41:22so Goebbels' ghastly remains
41:25were visible
41:26for all to see.
41:28Everything was falling apart.
41:30It was more painful
41:32for him
41:33to face reality
41:36than to kill himself
41:38and have all of his family
41:42killed with him.
41:45So he accompanies Hitler
41:47even into death.
41:49Soon after,
41:50their remains were found
41:51by Soviet troops.
41:53Hitler's chancelry
41:54was captured.
41:55Hitler committed suicide
41:57here at the last minute
41:58like a scorpion
42:00surrounded by a ring of fire.
42:04These are the ruins
42:05of Goebbels'
42:06ministry of propaganda.
42:08He himself
42:09will no longer poison
42:10the world
42:10with his man-hating invections.
42:13Goebbels came from nothing.
42:16He achieved power
42:17through his gifts
42:18as an excellent propagandist
42:21and orator,
42:22but once power
42:23was taken away,
42:24he didn't believe
42:25there was any point
42:26in existing.
42:27All it would take
42:28would be a charismatic leader
42:30saying the same words
42:31or lies often enough
42:33that people start
42:34to believe them
42:35and preaching
42:36to a disillusioned public.
42:38They're really
42:39the only ingredients
42:40one would need
42:41for this to happen
42:42all over again.
42:44Joseph Goebbels
42:45left the world
42:46a terrible legacy
42:47and it's summed up
42:48by his statement
42:49that if you keep
42:51repeating a lie
42:51people will believe it
42:53and this has been
42:54something that's
42:55been repeated
42:55time and time again
42:57in tyrannical
43:00and oppressive regimes
43:01and we live in a world
43:03where the lie
43:04is now almost
43:06overriding
43:07reality and truth.
43:09That's a pretty awful legacy.
43:11A legacy cemented
43:13by the horrific brutality
43:15his hate-filled
43:16invective inspired
43:17as well as
43:19by the hundreds
43:20of women
43:20he preyed upon
43:22and defiled.
43:23But also
43:26with a
43:27imponizing
43:29mannishucht
44:00mennishput
44:00mennishput
44:00mennishput
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