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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.
00:35They were this glamorous, gun-toting sex objects.
00:39The 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.
01:26They mockingly stand today as testament to the man dubbed the poison dwarf.
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.
02:09But 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.
02:21Described as the most prolific Casanova in the Nazi regime.
02:27He 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.
03:51And 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 the mother, and a distance,
04:13even 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,
04:30an historical sliding door moment barely comprehensible with the monster he would become.
04:36But Joseph was not a healthy child. Smaller than the other kids, he had a club foot,
04:41believed 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.
04:59And 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.
05:17But 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, his self-esteem, and how he was perceived by the
06:17world.
06:18But 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 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 is typical of somebody who's sexually repressed.
07:01So an older woman would seem knowledgeable, sexually experienced.
07:06One that, like a sexual mother, will 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.
07:40When we read accounts of Goebbels, it's obvious that he did overcompensate for his physical ability.
07:48He was extremely ambitious, so he was overcompensating, I believe, for his physical deformity and his problems as a child
08:01in competitive sports.
08:03Humiliated at his rejection by the military, Goebbels instead threw himself into academia at Bond University.
08:12He studied literature first, and 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, but 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, and it seemed for a moment as if the world
09:14might 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, the perfect breeding ground for fascism.
10:17People would go to buy a loaf of bread with one wheelbarrow full of money, and by the time they
10:22got there, found they needed another.
10:24There was starvation. The fledgling Weimar Republic really was on its knees.
10:30The inflation ruins the middle classes and the workers. Hitler holds the republic responsible for the distress and misery.
10:37A new political movement emerged. National Socialism. Its vigorous leader promising to sweep away the old establishment and to make
10:47Germany 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. We've been betrayed. I 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, Reit, where he worked on novels and journalism.
11:18His interest in nationalism grew, and in 1922 he started a relationship with a schoolteacher, Elsa Janker.
11:28How great it was yesterday. Today I am so happy. It is so nice that I can respect you so
11:35much, and you should know that I also want to be good and noble.
11:39Their relationship flourished during these turbulent times.
11:43In 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.
12:03She told me her roots. Since then her charms were destroyed for me.
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. This was the ultimate way for him to
12:30exercise 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.
13:42So they were just grabbing onto something that was already in its beginnings. The 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.
14:06Goebbels 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.
14:31Goebbels had the unique ability to understand that if you keep telling a lie over and over again,
14:38people will believe it. And because he was already in this position as the Minister of Propaganda,
14:44those lies were gobbled up by the masses.
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,
15:05the slurs on the Jews, for example, all started to work their way into these speeches
15:10and 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, this marginal Austrian of no
16:13achievement whatsoever in the past. You look at Goebbels himself, this miserable,
16:20stunted guy with that limp. Where is the Aryan image there? But they managed to ride over that.
16:27The Nazi Party gave Goebbels a voice, a platform and power. And he soon realised he could
16:34use it to pursue women for sex. So when he starts getting on what we today call the dating scene,
16:42it's not good. His 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. And the next few don't get very far. But once
16:55he
16:55starts getting into power, he starts learning not only how to sell propaganda, but how to sell himself.
17:04And that works very nicely for him. The lonely and solitary teenage Goebbels,
17:11whose self-pity had been so extensively diarised, had become an arrogant fanatic who could deliver
17:17a tub-thumping speech to an enwrapped audience. His distorted message of anti-Semitic rants cut through.
17:24Hitler loved it. And Goebbels reveled in it. So Goebbels found himself moving from
17:32a childhood where he was frail, unathletic, not handsome, not attractive,
17:42to an adulthood where he was the central cog in the major political movement in Germany,
17:52and then the world. One of the women who'd been impressed by those rallies, 29-year-old divorcee
17:59Magda Quant, went 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 class,
18:14wealthy, 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 in her new
18:27husband.
18:30Magda was fascinated with Hitler, or maybe even infatuated with Hitler.
18:38And as far as I can tell, 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 he
18:48married her.
18:50And this contributed to his open philandering.
18:55Goebbels was using his wife to get closer to Hitler, but at the same time, he didn't quite know himself
19:04how far that had gone.
19:06He didn't know, for example, how much his wife was attracted to Hitler, and how much Hitler was attracted to
19:14his wife.
19:15Even though he admired Frau Goebbels, Hitler would never have countenanced intimacy with her.
19:21And rather than confront his wife, Goebbels used her infatuation with the Führer to his political advantage,
19:28and to justify his aggressive pursuit of other women.
19:32Goebbels' marriage to Magda was ultimately a sham.
19:37This 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 in any way,
19:48but they were certainly very friendly.
19:50And this contributed to this bizarre triangle between Goebbels, Magda, and Hitler,
19:56in which everyone 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,
20:10ensured Goebbels' ascent to the pinnacle of Nazi leadership.
20:14Whilst the bizarre love triangle fuelled gossip in Germany,
20:18Hitler's rise to Chancellor in 1933 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 Poison Dwarf by the Führer's entourage, was handsomely rewarded.
20:51Hitler saw something in Goebbels, and he gave him something that nobody else could,
20:57and that was status. And from that status, his power-hungry nature grew, and it was voracious.
21:05At 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
21:17from those he and his beloved Führer deemed untermensch, or subhuman.
21:24Banned by the oratory of Hitler's minister of propaganda, Goebbels,
21:28anti-Semitism has swept Germany's fire and pillage.
21:32On the 1st of April, 1933, Goebbels launched the Nazis' official anti-Semitic campaign
21:40with a boycott of all Jewish businesses. The following month, he initiated the public burning
21:46of what he termed un-German books. So the dichotomy of the 1933 book burnings,
21:54headed up by Dr Goebbels, is a very interesting one. And I say doctor in that way, because he was
22:00a
22:00doctor of literature. This man was a man of words. He was learned. He was well-read. Right the way
22:07through
22:07his education, he would have been reading great works of literature, some of which would be by
22:12Jews, and having a well-rounded education. So the works of Freud and of Einstein would have been part
22:20of his being. And this shows you the intellectually anarchistic nature of Nazism. It's to destroy the
22:31establishment and recreate it on our own terms. Goebbels' education was fuelled by Jewish scholars
22:38Friedrich Gundolf and Max Freyer von Walkberg. And yet here he was, calling on students to destroy
22:45all Jewish literary works. Why did he do it? Was he doing it for show, to tow the party line,
22:54to show
22:55people how they should be reacting to the Nazi regime? Or 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. Later that same year, Goebbels became president of the
23:22newly formed Chamber of Nazi Culture. He now had control of the press, literature, radio, fine arts,
23:32theatre and films, and the biggest casting couch in Germany. So he suddenly found himself
23:40at the centre of everything, particularly because his work involved filming, which involved glamorous
23:50women. And 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, roll them all into
24:11one and you've got him. He interfered, he poured money in, but he manipulated and really saw it
24:19as a celluloid couch on which he could bed anybody and everybody.
24:29The studios there actually gave him the nickname, the Randy Goat of Babelsberg, which was the location
24:36where the movie studios were in Germany at the time.
24:40Germany's most famous film director was Leni Riefenstahl. It is said that she only escaped
24:46Goebbels' clutches due to her sway with her number one fan, Adolf Hitler. Others were not so lucky.
24:55If the actress wouldn't do what he want, in other words, go to bed with him, he would just get
25:00rid of
25:00them and do what he could to block their career.
25:04He created a fabricated world in which he, a person with physical disabilities,
25:17a person who was not attractive, became 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, the Goebbels became the unofficial first family of the
25:47Third Reich. But Goebbels had an affair that not even Hitler knew about, at least initially. He had become
25:55totally besotted with the young Czech actress Lida Barova.
26:00The other issue was with a Czechoslovakian actress who had some Jewish roots and this was
26:06definitely forbidden. In 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, she was already in a relationship with this leading man,
26:20Gustav Fröhlich. But that did not stop Goebbels.
26:28The affair ignited by his power over her career.
26:35These women stood no chance that Goebbels was going to take whomever he wanted and he did.
26:42As the young actress became more famous, so did her fear of their affair being uncovered.
26:48But 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.
27:05But 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 conquest.
27:21He wrote in his journal about all of his sexual conquest, 30,000 pages.
27:27Goebbels' diaries reveal, by their sheer obsessiveness, the 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 with 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
28:01as Goebbels became more and more infatuated with this sleeping with other women outside his marriage.
28:13And 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,
28:29was simply too important to be sacrificed for the sake of his prodigious sexual appetite.
28:34Hitler simply would not tolerate them separating because it was bad for the
28:39whole Nazi family men, family image.
28:43Despite his peccadillos, Goebbels' star continued to rise.
28:47He took control of all newspapers and 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 is the creation of
29:01Adolf Hitler's fanatic little propaganda minister, Paul Joseph Goebbels.
29:05In 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 with terrifying speed and violence.
29:18And as the tentacles of his tyranny spread, the need for Goebbels' stage management became ever greater.
29:25Hitler needed Goebbels because he needed propaganda to fabricate this image of himself and the Nazi movement.
29:39On the evening of November 9, 1938, rioters destroyed synagogues and Jewish shops throughout Germany and Austria,
29:49in what became known as the Kristallnacht, or Night of the Broken Glass.
29:55The master of propaganda had manipulated the emotions of everyday German citizens,
30:01driving them into horrific acts, and set the stage for the onset of World War II.
30:09Goebbels had helped craft a new world order so twisted and perverse,
30:14that it would soon claim the lives of millions, even those closest to him.
30:29In March 1939, German troops invaded Czechoslovakia.
30:34Six months later, on the 1st of September 1939, Germany launched a surprise attack on Poland,
30:42triggering the start of the Second World War.
30:45Warsaw is bombed, blasted and shelled. Poland is in ruin.
30:52Even as the Nazi war machine plunged Europe into chaos,
30:57and Goebbels appropriated the airwaves of yet more conquered nations,
31:02in secret, he continued to leverage his power and influence for sex.
31:07Joseph Goebbels would meet the criteria of what I think is best termed a sexual athlete.
31:14In other words, it was a competition. So you describe what you're doing, who you're doing it with,
31:20and you tick the box, and then you move on to the next one. And for somebody with very ambivalent
31:27feelings about himself physically, after all, he was disabled, he was deformed. This is his compensation.
31:35It doesn't matter what you do, it's the fact that you've done it, and you're moving on to more.
31:41And his reaction to rejection was telling. When young German actress Anneliese Ehrlich rejected his
31:49sexual advances, Goebbels canceled her film.
31:55Really, every day he was gaining more power. As the Nazi party was, so was he. And that allowed him
32:03to indulge his sexual interest, grabbing on women in public, having sex with whomever he wished. That was built
32:12into the structure of his status and power as a result of the Nazi party.
32:16The same ruthlessness was later inflicted on Charlotte Thiel,
32:21even though she had become well known for her starring role in the 1943 film Titanic.
32:27Fame was no protection from Goebbels' predation.
32:43And Goebbels' relentless pursuit of sex was not limited to actresses.
32:50One of his secretaries reported that Goebbels would proposition the girls in the office,
32:55no matter how young they were.
32:59Tyrants often deviate in their sexual behaviour because they can.
33:06Because they deviate in all their other behaviours.
33:11They deviate in the use of power.
33:13They deviate in the use of relationships generally.
33:22Their relationships with their families are deviants.
33:27So the deviation of tyrants in the sexual arena is just a reflection of their general deviation.
33:36And it is because they can. They have the power to do it.
33:44In regimenting German thought, all 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, well behind the front line,
34:01Goebbels became the public cheerleader for the most horrific genocide the world has ever seen.
34:09There are some deeply chilling speeches by Goebbels about the way that the Jews must pay,
34:17about their downfall, what effectively becomes the Holocaust, and Goebbels is the mouthpiece for this.
34:26We don't want to forget the fact that Goebbels is probably the most notorious propagandist of all of the 20th
34:35century.
34:36But as a result of his lies, the lies that he told over and over again to make sure people
34:43would believe them,
34:44that millions of people died at his hand.
34:58And as the war turned against the Nazis, Goebbels demanded total war,
35:03a fight to the death by the German people for the sake of the craven Nazi creed,
35:09for which Goebbels and so many others had sold their souls.
35:13As the combined might of the Allied forces started to reclaim Europe,
35:17Hitler's dream was fast evaporating in a cloud of misery and self-destruction.
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35:29can't even show up.
35:34And that's why the words of the word
35:40Now, people, stand up, and the storm breaks down.
35:48His propaganda ministers' calls to action
35:51were now falling on deaf ears.
35:55He fervently believed in this thousand-year Reich
35:58that they are right, that 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 in running the war effort.
36:16By 1945, he essentially became
36:19the second most powerful person in Germany.
36:22He was extraordinarily good at being the person
36:27who organised all their communications,
36:30who organised their propaganda schemes.
36:34And, of course, for Hitler's movement, propaganda was central.
36:48But these words soon turned to poison,
36:51and these words became responsible for the death of millions of people
36:56across the whole world.
36:57It's a crushing irony that 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,
37:11meant that Goebbels' incessant lives
37:13were more important than ever to 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 spray,
37:37the charred and twisted graveyard of 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 to ignore reality any longer.
38:17They decide that if things aren't going to go their way,
38:20if Germany is going to lose the war,
38:22then Hitler and his partner, who became his wife,
38:26Eva Braun, will commit suicide.
38:29And Goebbels will do the same.
38:31He will follow Hitler to the grave.
38:38On April 30, 1945, a besieged Hitler,
38:43determined to avoid the very public humiliation
38:45of his long-time ally Mussolini,
38:48shot himself...
38:51..before his bodyguards carried out his instructions
38:54by burning his and Eva Braun's bodies.
38:58Bulletin! Adolf Hitler is dead!
39:01He is dead, and how he died, the world little cares.
39:05For Hitler's death, millions have paid,
39:07and 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 as one of history's greatest cowards.
39:34Days before Hitler's death on April 30,
39:37Goebbels, his wife Magda, and their six children
39:41had moved into the bunker beneath the Reich Chancellery.
39:46I will always be proud of having belonged to a family
39:50that even in adversity and up to the last moment,
39:54has been faithful to the Fuhrer and his pure and holy cause.
40:00Having served only a day as Chancellor,
40:04Goebbels prepared to follow his beloved Fuhrer to his death.
40:07But he wouldn't go alone.
40:09What Hitler had done in 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 in her daughter's hair
40:24before sedating all six children.
40:27She and Joseph then forced them to drink a lethal dose of cyanide.
40:50What sort of man decides that because he's done,
40:55because his power is taken away,
40:57that also means that the six children that he has brought into the world
41:01also deserve to die, and so does his wife.
41:05Having murdered their children, Magda and Joseph Goebbels then went upstairs,
41:10and with the help of the SS,
41:12they committed suicide before their bodies were burned.
41:18Only this time, there wasn't enough petrol to do the job properly,
41:22so Goebbels' ghastly remains were visible for all to see.
41:28Everything was falling apart.
41:30It was more painful for him to face reality
41:37than to kill himself and have all of his family killed with him.
41:45So he accompanies Hitler even into death.
41:49Soon after, their remains were found by Soviet troops.
41:53Hitler's chancellery was captured.
41:55Hitler committed suicide here at the last minute,
41:59like a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire.
42:04These are the ruins of Goebbels' ministry of propaganda.
42:08He himself will no longer poison the world with his man-hating invections.
42:13Goebbels came from nothing.
42:16He achieved power through his gifts as an excellent propagandist and orator.
42:22But once power was taken away, he didn't believe there was any point in existing.
42:27All it would take would be a charismatic leader,
42:30saying the same words or lies often enough that people start to believe them,
42:35and preaching to a disillusioned public.
42:38They're really the only ingredients one would need for this to happen all over again.
42:44Joseph Goebbels left the world a terrible legacy,
42:47and it's summed up by his statement that if you keep repeating a lie, people will believe it.
42:53And this has been something that's been repeated time and time again in tyrannical and oppressive regimes.
43:01And we live in a world where the lie is now almost overriding reality and truth.
43:09That's a pretty awful legacy.
43:11A legacy cemented by the horrific brutality his hate-filled invective inspired,
43:18as well as by the hundreds of women he preyed upon and defiled.
43:23But also with an imponential mannese.
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