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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.
02:42So 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 and a distance, even a hostility towards a father who's perceived
04:16as 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, an historical sliding door moment barely comprehensible with the monster
04:34he would become.
04:36But Joseph was not a healthy child.
04:39Smaller than the other kids, he had a club foot, believed to be due to polio, osteomyelitis or perhaps a
04:46congenital 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.
04:59And 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, the 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, extraordinarily reaching for heights that were out of the ordinary.
06:41Together with this intellectual drive and physical insecurity, went a hyperactive libido.
06:48In his mid-teens, Goebbels began to yearn for sexual encounters with older women.
06:55So Goebbels' fantasy about older women is typical of somebody who's sexually repressed.
07:01So an older woman would seem knowledgeable, sexually experienced, one that, like a sexual mother, will replace the mother, but
07:11work 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, Goebbels was rejected by the army due to his
07:38club foot.
07:40When we read accounts of Goebbels, it's obvious that he did overcompensate for his physical ability.
07:49He was extremely ambitious.
07:52So he was overcompensating, I believe, for his physical deformity.
07:58And his problems as a child in competitive sports.
08:04Humiliated at his rejection by the military, Goebbels instead threw himself into academia at Bonn University.
08:12He studied literature first.
08:14And that was, of course, a very good basis for 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 would compensate for his feelings of physical inadequacy in all sorts of
08:33ways.
08:36Then, as a student at Freiburg, Goebbels met pretty 21-year-old Anka Stalholm.
08:43The attraction was mutual.
08:47But Anka's parents did not approve.
08:50Her well-to-do mother referred to Goebbels as Anka's penniless crippled boyfriend.
08:56When Anka broke off their affair in 1920 and started seeing another man, it is said that Goebbels threatened to
09:04take his own life.
09:06In his diary, Goebbels wrote about the eroticism of death.
09:10And it seemed for a moment as if the world might be spared the life of this disturbed, malevolent creature.
09:23Four calamitous years of world war had left much of Europe in ruins and Germany a pariah.
09:31The first world war of our time was over.
09:36The news of the armistice was a bit premature, but that didn't prevent a full-scale celebration in Times Square.
09:46But for the Germans, the cost of peace was pain and poverty.
09:53Germany was a country that was completely decimated by the First World War.
09:58The victorious allies really wanted Germany to pay for the war.
10:03These reparations absolutely bankrupted the country.
10:07In Germany in the 1920s, there was massive unemployment, hunger and skyrocketing inflation.
10:14The perfect breeding ground for fascism.
10:17People would go to buy a loaf of bread with one wheelbarrow full of money.
10:22And by the time they got there, found they needed another.
10:24There was starvation.
10:26The fledgling Weimar Republic really was on its knees.
10:30The inflation ruins the middle classes and the workers.
10:34Hitler holds the republic responsible for the distress and misery.
10:37A new political movement emerged.
10:40National Socialism.
10:42Its vigorous leader promising to sweep away the old establishment and to make Germany great once again.
10:49Here you have Goebbels who's looking for some way of finding a meaning in life.
10:56And this fits in perfectly.
10:58Actually, we've been betrayed.
11:00I can be one of the people who make us great again.
11:03But the way I'm going to do it is with the only thing I've got going so far, which is
11:09my intellect.
11:10After completing his doctorate, Goebbels had returned to his hometown, Rate, where he worked on novels and journalism.
11:18His interest in nationalism grew.
11:21And in 1922, he started a relationship with a schoolteacher, Elsa Janker.
11:28How great it was yesterday.
11:31Today I am so happy.
11:32It is so nice that I can respect you so much.
11:35And you should know that I also want to be good and noble.
11:39Their relationship flourished during these turbulent times.
11:44In common with an ever-growing segment in German society, Goebbels blamed the Jews for Germany's defeat in World War
11:51I and subsequent bankruptcy.
11:54Imagine his horror when he discovered his new love's mother was Jewish.
12:12In 1924, Goebbels joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party, Adolf Hitler's Nazis.
12:21Goebbels found a home when he found Hitler and the Nazi Party.
12:27This was the ultimate way for him to exercise his sharp intellect.
12:32And Hitler recognized that immediately when he met Goebbels.
12:36Hitler was so impressed by Goebbels' loyalty, skill, and rabid anti-Semitism that in 1926, he appointed him the Nazi
12:46Party chief for Berlin.
12:47Goebbels established himself as an impressive speaker, agitator, and master propagandist.
12:55To his delight, he discovered his newfound prominence also won him new female fans.
13:01The entire humming of Nazi Germany was because of Goebbels' ability to draw attention to the agenda of the Third
13:13Reich.
13:13Everybody remembers his comment that if you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it.
13:28Goebbels preyed upon the hardship of the German people and tapped into their resentment to stir up the most ancient
13:35of human hatreds.
13:36They needed a scapegoat. Anti-Semitism was rife throughout Europe in the 1930s anyway, so they were just grabbing onto
13:43something that was already in its beginnings.
13:46The seeds of hatred were already there.
13:49And Hitler and Goebbels said that the Jewish people were responsible for the fact that Germany lost the First World
13:56War.
13:59Goebbels weaponized anti-Semitic tropes to elevate his own standing and that of the Nazi Party.
14:05Goebbels did an amazing job of promoting not just Hitler, but the Nazi Party and its imagery.
14:13And it wasn't just the German people in his thrall. Goebbels soon had the attention of the world's media.
14:21They said that persons of a so-called German blood were a master race, entitled to subjugate or even exterminate
14:30other races.
14:30Goebbels had the unique ability to understand that if you keep telling a lie over and over again, people will
14:39believe it.
14:39And because he was already in this position as the Minister of Propaganda, those lies were gobbled up by the
14:48masses.
14:49Scarcely out of kindergarten, the child must take the place allotted to him in the great Nazi scheme.
14:54And from then on, think and act as he is told.
14:58So not just targeting unemployment or the financial crisis, but the racial targets, the slurs on the Jews, for example,
15:07all started to work their way into these speeches and soon became the only subject of those speeches.
15:14And people believed them because of the way that they were delivered.
15:32But even as Goebbels skillfully controlled the Nazi message to the masses,
15:37he couldn't control what his own peers were saying about him behind his back,
15:42or indeed certain sections of the world's media, about the irony of the alleged master race
15:48being led by such unprepossessing physical specimens.
15:53And limping Joseph Goebbels, plenty potentiary for total war effort,
15:58whipping German morale to further frenzies of resistance.
16:01The man whose mouth utters all of Hitler's lies.
16:04And the contrast is astonishing because you can look at Hitler,
16:10this marginal Austrian of no achievement whatsoever in the past.
16:15You look at Goebbels himself, this miserable, stunted guy with that limp.
16:21Where is the Aryan image there?
16:25But they managed to ride over that.
16:27The Nazi party gave Goebbels a voice, a platform and power.
16:32And he soon realised he could use it to pursue women for sex.
16:37So when he starts getting on what we today call the dating scene, it's not good.
16:43His first relationship reminds him the fact that he's not going to be, you know,
16:49a great lover in women's eyes the way he looks.
16:52And the next few don't get very far.
16:54But once he starts getting into power, he starts learning not only how to sell propaganda,
17:02but how to sell himself.
17:04And that works very nicely for him.
17:07The lonely and solitary teenage Goebbels, whose self-pity had been so extensively diarised,
17:14had become an arrogant fanatic who could deliver a tub-thumping speech to an enwrapped audience.
17:19His distorted message of anti-Semitic rants cut through.
17:24Hitler loved it.
17:25And Goebbels reveled in it.
17:28So Goebbels found himself moving from a childhood where he was frail, unathletic,
17:38not handsome, not attractive, to an adulthood where he was the central cog in the major political
17:50movement in Germany and then the world.
17:54One of the women who'd been impressed by those rallies, 29-year-old divorcee Magda Quant,
18:00went on to work for Goebbels and then fell for him.
18:05She was desirable to both Goebbels and Hitler because she was upper class, very much upper
18:13class, wealthy, educated, all the things they weren't.
18:18Even as they married in 1931, there were rumours that Magda was more interested in Hitler than
18:26in her new husband.
18:30Magda was fascinated with Hitler or maybe even infatuated with Hitler and, as far as I can
18:39tell, didn't really care much at all about Goebbels.
18:42But she wanted to be near Hitler and Goebbels knew that she wanted to be near Hitler and so
18:48he married her and this contributed to his open philandery.
18:55Goebbels was using his wife to get closer to Hitler, but at the same time, he didn't quite
19:03know himself how far that had gone.
19:06He didn't know, for example, how much his wife was attracted to Hitler and how much Hitler was
19:14attracted to his wife.
19:15Even though he admired Frau Goebbels, Hitler would never have countenanced intimacy with
19:20her.
19:21And rather than confront his wife, Goebbels used her infatuation with the Fuhrer to his
19:27political advantage and to justify his aggressive pursuit of other women.
19:32Goebbels' marriage to Magda was ultimately a sham.
19:36This was really to appease Hitler and Magda's bizarre relationship.
19:42We don't see any evidence that Hitler and Magda actually consummated their relationship
19:47in any way, but they were certainly very friendly.
19:50And this contributed to this bizarre triangle between Goebbels, Magda and Hitler in which
19:57everyone was serving a purpose.
19:59There was a need for everyone to fit into that triangle.
20:03A sham it may have been, but Magda bore Goebbels' six children, and her popularity with Hitler
20:09ensured Goebbels' ascent to the pinnacle of Nazi leadership.
20:14Whilst the bizarre love triangle fuelled gossip in Germany, Hitler's rise to Chancellor in
20:191933 ignited fear around the globe.
20:27January 30th, 1933, Hitler's popularity was increasing by leaps and bounds.
20:32The people greeted the announcement of his becoming Chancellor with wild enthusiasm.
20:37For his help in Hitler's ascent to power, the mastermind of the Nazi propaganda machine,
20:43who was now widely referred to as the Poisoned Dwarf by the Fuhrer's entourage, was handsomely
20:49rewarded.
20:51Hitler saw something in Goebbels, and he gave him something that nobody else could, and that
20:57was status.
20:58And from that status, his power-hungry nature grew, and it was voracious.
21:04At just 35 years old, Joseph Goebbels became the youngest minister in Hitler's cabinet.
21:11He wasted no time using his newfound power to take away liberty's rights and freedom from
21:18those he and his beloved Fuhrer deemed untermensch, or subhuman.
21:32On the 1st of April, 1933, Goebbels launched the Nazis' official anti-Semitic campaign with
21:40a boycott of all Jewish businesses.
21:43The following month, he initiated the public burning of what he termed un-German books.
21:50So the dichotomy of the 1933 book burnings, headed up by Dr. Goebbels, is a very interesting
21:57one.
21:57And I say doctor in that way, because he was a doctor of literature.
22:01This man was a man of words.
22:04He was learned.
22:05He was well-read.
22:06Right the way through his education, he would have been reading great works of literature,
22:11some of which would be by Jews, and having a well-rounded education.
22:15So the works of Freud and of Einstein would have been part of his being.
22:22And this shows you the intellectually anarchistic nature of Nazism.
22:30It's to destroy the establishment and recreate it on our own terms.
22:35Goebbels' education was fuelled by Jewish scholars Friedrich Gundolf and Max Freier von
22:41Valkberg, and yet here he was, calling on students to destroy all Jewish literary works.
22:48Why did he do it?
22:50Was he doing it for show, to toe the party line, to show people how they should be reacting
22:57to the Nazi regime?
22:59Or did he truly believe in what he was doing?
23:04What made him particularly hideous, I think, is that he could see the effect of his propaganda,
23:13he could see what it was doing, but he continued.
23:18Later that same year, Goebbels became president of the newly formed Chamber of Nazi Culture.
23:25He now had control of the press, literature, radio, fine arts, theatre and films,
23:33and the biggest casting couch in Germany.
23:37So he suddenly found himself at the centre of everything,
23:43particularly because his work involved filming, which involved glamorous women.
23:52And these glamorous women were finding that Goebbels was at the centre of all the power,
24:00and if they wanted work, it was through him.
24:05You can take the worst Hollywood director and producers you've ever seen,
24:10roll them all into one, and you've got him.
24:13He interfered, he poured money in, but he manipulated and really saw it as a celluloid couch.
24:21On which he could bed anybody and everybody.
24:29The studios there actually gave him the nickname,
24:33the Randy Goat of Babelsberg,
24:35which was the location where the movie studios were in Germany at the time.
24:40Germany's most famous film director was Leni Riefenstahl.
24:44It is said that she only escaped Goebbels' clutches due to her sway with her number one fan, Adolf Hitler.
24:52Others were not so lucky.
24:55If the actress wouldn't do what he want, in other words, go to bed with him,
24:59he would just get rid of them and do what he could to block their career.
25:04He created a fabricated world in which he, a person with physical disabilities,
25:16a person who was not attractive,
25:21became the centre of attention of beautiful women.
25:34In public, Goebbels presented the image of the devoted husband and family man.
25:40With Hitler maintaining his singular aloofness,
25:44the Goebbels became the unofficial first family of the Third Reich.
25:48But Goebbels had an affair that not even Hitler knew about,
25:52at least initially.
25:54He had become totally besotted with the young Czech actress Lida Barova.
26:00The other issue was with a Czechoslovakian actress
26:04who had some Jewish roots, and this was definitely forbidden.
26:07In fact, she might have been one of the few women that slipped behind his guard
26:12because he was very reluctant to give her up.
26:15When Goebbels first met Barova,
26:17she was already in a relationship with this leading man,
26:21Gustav Fröhlich.
26:22But that did not stop Goebbels.
26:27The affair ignited by his power over her career.
26:35These women stood no chance.
26:38That Goebbels was going to take whomever he wanted, and he did.
26:41As the young actress became more famous,
26:44so did her fear of their affair being uncovered.
26:47But Barova was merely another conquest for the Nazi minister.
26:52His lecherous behavior was becoming more brazen.
26:55He would fondle a woman's breast or grab a woman's buttocks in public,
27:00and people knew that he was this kind of public creepster.
27:06But because he was so powerful, people had to bow to his knee.
27:11He would even grab and fondle women in public in front of his wife.
27:15He had no qualms about talking about his sexual conquests.
27:22He wrote in his journal about all of his sexual conquests, 30,000 pages.
27:27Goebbels' diaries reveal, by their sheer obsessiveness,
27:33the fact that he was preoccupied with his own image,
27:37his self-esteem, and how he was perceived by the world.
27:42By this time, Magda Goebbels was openly having an affair
27:46with Goebbels' right-hand man, Karl Hunker.
27:49An increasingly concerned Fuhrer felt obliged to step in.
27:53The relationship between Goebbels, Magda, and Hitler became more complicated
28:00as Goebbels became more and more infatuated with this sleeping with other women
28:10outside his marriage, and eventually he wanted to leave his wife.
28:17But Hitler intervened and prevented Goebbels from leaving his wife.
28:23Goebbels' marriage and his public persona as the poster boy for Nazi family planning
28:28was simply too important to be sacrificed for the sake of his prodigious sexual appetite.
28:35Hitler simply would not tolerate them separating
28:37because it was bad for the whole Nazi family men, family image.
28:43Despite his peccadillos, Goebbels' star continued to rise.
28:48He took control of all newspapers
28:50and handed out millions of cheap radio sets
28:53so the German people could listen to the Nazi message.
28:57Only those who get behind the scenes know that this outward cheerfulness
29:00is the creation of Adolf Hitler's fanatic little propaganda minister,
29:04Paul Joseph Goebbels.
29:06In the most concentrated propaganda campaign the world has ever known.
29:09By 1938, Germany was on the march.
29:13Hitler's nationalist movement was escalating
29:15with terrifying speed and violence.
29:18And as the tentacles of his tyranny spread,
29:21the need for Goebbels' stage management became ever greater.
29:25Hitler needed Goebbels because he needed propaganda
29:30to fabricate this image of himself and the Nazi movement.
29:39On the evening of November 9th, 1938,
29:43rioters destroyed synagogues and Jewish shops
29:47throughout Germany and Austria
29:49in what became known as the Kristallnacht,
29:52or Night of the Broken Glass.
29:55The master of propaganda had manipulated the emotions
29:59of everyday German citizens,
30:01driving them into horrific acts,
30:04and set the stage for the onset of World War II.
30:09Goebbels had helped craft a new world order
30:12so twisted and perverse
30:14that it would soon claim the lives of millions,
30:17even those closest to him.
30:29In March 1939, German troops invaded Czechoslovakia.
30:34Six months later, on the 1st of September 1939,
30:39Germany launched a surprise attack on Poland,
30:42triggering the start of the Second World War.
30:45Warsaw is bombed, blasted and shelled.
30:48Poland is in ruin.
30:52Even as the Nazi war machine plunged Europe into chaos
30:56and Goebbels appropriated the airwaves
30:59of yet more conquered nations,
31:02in secret, he continued to leverage his power
31:05and influence for sex.
31:07Joseph Goebbels would meet the criteria
31:10of what I think is best termed a sexual athlete.
31:14In other words, it was a competition.
31:16So you describe what you're doing,
31:19who you're doing it with,
31:20and you tick the box,
31:22and then you move on to the next one.
31:24And for somebody with very ambivalent feelings
31:27feelings about himself physically,
31:30after all, he was disabled, he was deformed.
31:33This is his compensation.
31:36It doesn'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 was telling.
31:44When young German actress Annalise Ehrlich
31:48rejected his sexual advances,
31:51Goebbels cancelled her film.
31:55Really, every day he was gaining more power.
31:58As the Nazi party was, so was he.
32:01And that allowed him to 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.
32:16The same ruthlessness was later inflicted
32:19on Charlotte Thiel,
32:21even though she had become well-known
32:23for her starring role in the 1943 film Titanic.
32:27Fame was no protection from Goebbels' predation.
32:31He was extremely emotionally manipulative,
32:35maybe one of the most infamous
32:37and successful manipulators of all times.
32:43And Goebbels' relentless pursuit of sex
32:46was not limited to actresses.
32:50One of his secretaries reported
32:52that Goebbels would proposition the girls in the office,
32:55no matter how young they were.
32:59Tyrants often deviate in their sexual behaviour
33:04because they can,
33:06because they deviate in all their other behaviours.
33:10They deviate in the use of power.
33:15They deviate in the use of relationships generally.
33:23Their relationships with their families are deviants.
33:28So the deviation of tyrants in the sexual arena
33:31is just a reflection of their general deviation.
33:35And it is because they can.
33:38They have the power to do it.
33:44In regimenting German thought,
33:47all radio programmes emanate from the Department of Propaganda.
33:50Every newspaper prints only what the state wants its people to read.
33:56From the safety of his Berlin ministry,
33:59well behind the front line,
34:01Goebbels became the public cheerleader
34:04for the most horrific genocide the world has ever seen.
34:09There are some deeply chilling speeches by Goebbels
34:14about the way that the Jews must pay,
34:17about their downfall,
34:19what effectively becomes the Holocaust.
34:21and Goebbels is the mouthpiece for this.
34:26We don't want to forget the fact that Goebbels
34:29is probably the most notorious propagandist
34:33of all of the 20th century.
34:36But as a result of his lies,
34:39the lies that he told over and over again
34:42and to make sure people would believe them,
34:44that millions of people died at his hand.
34:58And as the war turned against the Nazis,
35:01Goebbels demanded total war,
35:04a fight to the death by the German people
35:06for the sake of the craven Nazi creed
35:09for which Goebbels and so many others
35:11had sold their souls.
35:13As the combined might of the Allied forces
35:16started to reclaim Europe,
35:17Hitler's dream was fast evaporating
35:20in a cloud of misery and self-destruction.
35:48His propaganda minister's calls to action
35:51were now falling on deaf ears.
35:54He fervently believed in this thousand-year Reich
35:58that they are right,
35:59that they are the people
36:01who will control the entire world
36:03and oversee the downfall of the people
36:06that they want to subjugate or murder.
36:09Hitler rewarded Goebbels' fanaticism
36:11by giving him even greater powers
36:14in running the war effort.
36:16By 1945, he essentially became
36:19the second most powerful person in Germany.
36:22He was extraordinarily good
36:24at being the person
36:27who organised all their communications,
36:31who organised their propaganda schemes,
36:34and of course, for Hitler's movement,
36:38propaganda was central.
36:41Das Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda.
36:44Reichsminister Dr. Goebbels
36:46verließ die Proclamation des Führers.
36:48But these words soon turned to poison,
36:51and these words became responsible
36:53for the death of millions of people
36:56across the whole world.
36:57It's a crushing irony
36:59that Goebbels' rise to power
37:01was hastened by the Nazis' flailing war effort.
37:04The decimation of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front
37:07and then the successful landing of Allied troops at D-Day
37:10meant that Goebbels' incessant lies
37:13were more important than ever
37:14to try and prop up the Nazi myth.
37:18Nazis in full retreat
37:20less than three weeks after D-Day,
37:22crushing defeat for the master race.
37:24Our infantry smashes forward.
37:27By April 1945, however,
37:29no amount of propaganda could save
37:32the devastated and dying German war machine.
37:35On both sides of the river Sprey,
37:37the charred and twisted graveyard
37:39of 300,000 Nazis.
37:41In four and a half years,
37:43Allied bombs hit Berlin day and night.
37:46Many buildings still standing are mere shells.
37:49As the Soviet Red Army moved into Eastern Germany
37:52and the Allies surged from the West,
37:55the last vestige of the hateful Nazi regime
37:58was caught in a deadly vice.
38:00So now you have the man who believed in the Nazi ideal
38:04until the very last days.
38:06The Russians are surrounding the bunker.
38:09They can hear the cannon.
38:10They know Hitler's going to kill himself
38:12and it's impossible
38:13to ignore reality any longer.
38:17They decide that
38:19if things aren't going to go their way,
38:20if Germany is going to lose the war,
38:22then Hitler and his partner
38:25who became his wife,
38:26Eva Braun,
38:27will commit suicide
38:28and Goebbels will do the same.
38:31He will follow Hitler to the grave.
38:38On April 30, 1945,
38:41a besieged Hitler,
38:42determined to avoid the very public humiliation
38:45of his long-time ally Mussolini,
38:48shot himself
38:51before his bodyguards carried out his instructions
38:54by burning his and Eva Braun's bodies.
38:58Bulletin! Adolf Hitler is dead!
39:00He is dead and how he died,
39:03the world little cares.
39:05For Hitler's death,
39:06millions have paid
39:06and millions are now thankful for justice.
39:10As per the instructions in Hitler's will,
39:13Goebbels became Chancellor of the Reich.
39:16But his time as the supreme leader of Germany
39:19would not only be short-lived,
39:21it would also reveal him
39:23as one of history's greatest cowards.
39:34Days before Hitler's death on April 30,
39:37Goebbels, his 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 to a family
39:50that even in adversity
39:52and up to the last moment
39:54has been faithful to the Fuhrer
39:57and his pure and holy cause.
40:00Having served only a day as Chancellor,
40:03Goebbels prepared to follow
40:05his beloved Fuhrer to his death.
40:07But he wouldn't go alone.
40:09What Hitler had done
40:11in committing suicide,
40:13they now needed to do as well.
40:16That was their final act of loyalty to him.
40:20Magda Goebbels tied white ribbons
40:23in her daughter's hair
40:24before sedating all six children.
40:27She and Joseph then forced them
40:29to drink a lethal dose of cyanide.
40:50What sort of man decides
40:53that because he's done,
40:55because his power is taken away,
40:57that also means
40:58that the six children
41:00that he has brought into the world
41:01also deserve to die
41:03and so does his wife.
41:05Having murdered their children,
41:07Magda and Joseph Goebbels
41:08then went upstairs
41:09and with the help of the SS,
41:12they committed suicide
41:14before their bodies were 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 for all to see.
41:28Everything was falling apart.
41:30It was more painful for 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 chancellery was captured.
41:55Hitler committed suicide
41:56here at the last minute
41:58like a scorpion
42:00surrounded by a ring of fire.
42:04These are the ruins
42:05of Goebbels' ministry of propaganda.
42:08He himself will no longer poison
42:10the world with 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,
42:21but once power was taken away,
42:24he didn't believe
42:25there was any point in 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 to believe them
42:35and preaching
42:36to a disillusioned public.
42:38They're really the only ingredients
42:39one would need
42:41for this to happen
42:42all over again.
42:44Joseph Goebbels left the world
42:46a terrible legacy
42:47and it's summed up
42:48by his statement
42:49that if you keep repeating a lie,
42:52people will believe it.
42:53And this has been something
42:54that's been repeated
42:55time and time again
42:57in tyrannical
43:00and oppressive regimes.
43:02And 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 invective
43:17inspired,
43:18as well as by the hundreds
43:20of women
43:20he preyed upon
43:21and defiled.
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