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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.
01:18Joseph 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 poison dwarf.
01:36One 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.
02:21Described 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.
02:41So 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,
03:11bordering 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,
03:47but 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,
04:10and 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.
04:35But 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.
04:58And that, of course, impacted his psyche growing up. It caused him to feel insecure, low self-esteem, inferior.
05:08He had a physical handicap. And 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. It is here that he garnered the most power.
05:29Joseph's parents paid for corrective surgery to his club foot.
05:33It failed. His 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. I had to look after myself and could no longer
05:52join in the other children's games.
05:54I became lonely and solitary. My 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, his self-esteem,
06:14and 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 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, so an older woman would seem knowledgeable,
07:05sexually experienced, one 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, and the greatest war the world had known exploded
07:23in 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.
07:48He 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 Bonn 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.
10:14The 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.
10:25The 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, 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.
10:58We'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,
11:14Raitt, where he worked on novels and journalism.
11:18His interest in nationalism grew, and in 1922 he started a relationship with a schoolteacher, Elsa Junker.
11:28How great it was yesterday.
11:30Today I am so happy.
11:32It is so nice that I can respect you so much, and you should know that I also want to
11:38be 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.
12:03She told me her roots.
12:05Since 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.
12:27This was the ultimate way for him to exercise his sharp intellect, and Hitler recognized that immediately when he met
12:35Goebbels.
12:36Hitler was so impressed by Goebbels' loyalty, skill, and rabid anti-Semitism that in 1926 he appointed him the Nazi
12:45Party 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 prayed 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.
13:38Anti-Semitism was rife throughout Europe in the 1930s anyway, so they were just grabbing onto something that was already
13:45in its beginnings.
13:46The seeds of hatred were already there, and Hitler and Goebbels said that the Jewish people were responsible for the
13:54fact that Germany lost the First World War.
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.
14:12And it wasn't just the German people in his thrall.
14:17Goebbels 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,
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
15:45about the irony of the alleged master race being led by such unprepossessing physical specimens.
15:53And limping Joseph Goebbels, plenipotentiary for total war effort,
15:58whipping German morale to further frenzies of resistance,
16:01the man whose mouth utters all of Hitler's lies.
16:05And 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? But 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 a great lover in women's eyes,
16:50the way he looks. And the next few don't get very far. But once he starts getting into power,
16:57he starts learning not only how to sell propaganda, but how to sell himself. And that works very nicely for
17:07him.
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. Hitler loved it. And Goebbels reveled in it.
17:28So Goebbels found himself moving from a childhood where he was frail,
17:37unathletic, not handsome, not attractive, to an adulthood where he was the central cog
17:48in the major political movement in Germany and then the world.
17:54One of the women who'd been impressed by those rallies, 29-year-old divorcee Magda Quant,
17:59went on to work for Goebbels and then fell for him. She was desirable to both Goebbels and Hitler
18:10because she was upper class, very much upper class, 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
18:26than in her new husband. Magda was fascinated with Hitler or maybe even infatuated with Hitler.
18:37And as far as I can tell, didn't really care much at all about Goebbels, but she wanted to be
18:43near
18:43Hitler and Goebbels knew that she wanted to be near Hitler. And so he married her. And this contributed to
18:52his open philandering. Goebbels was using his wife to get closer to Hitler, but at the same time,
19:01he didn't quite know himself how far that had gone. He didn't know, for example, how much
19:10his wife was attracted to Hitler and how much Hitler was attracted to his wife.
19:15Even though he admired Frau Goebbels, Hitler would never have countenanced intimacy with her. And
19:21rather than confront his wife, Goebbels used her infatuation with the Führer to his political
19:27advantage and to justify his aggressive pursuit of other women. Goebbels' marriage to Magda was
19:35ultimately a sham. This was really to appease Hitler and Magda's bizarre relationship. We don't see any
19:43evidence that Hitler and Magda actually consummated their relationship in any way, but they were
19:48certainly very friendly. And this contributed to this bizarre triangle between Goebbels, Magda,
19:54and Hitler, in which everyone was serving a purpose. There was a need for everyone to fit into that
20:02triangle. A 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. Whilst the bizarre love triangle
20:16fueled gossip in Germany, Hitler's rise to chancellor in 1933 ignited fear around the globe.
20:27January 30th, 1933, Hitler's popularity was increasing by leaps and bounds. The people
20:33greeted 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,
20:48was handsomely rewarded.
20:51Hitler saw something in Goebbels and he gave him something that nobody else
20:56could. And 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. He wasted no
21:12time using his newfound power to take away liberty's rights and freedom from those he and his beloved
21:19Fuhrer deemed untermensch or subhuman.
21:24Fanned by the oratory of Hitler's minister of propaganda, Goebbels, anti-Semitism has swept
21:30Germany's fire and pillage.
21:33On the 1st of April 1933, Goebbels launched the Nazis' official anti-Semitic campaign with a boycott of all
21:41Jewish businesses. The following month, he initiated the public burning of what he termed
21:47un-German books.
21:49So the dichotomy of the 1933 book burnings, headed up by Dr Goebbels, is a very interesting one. And I
21:57say doctor in that way because he was a doctor of literature. This man was a man of words. He
22:04was
22:04learned. He was well-read. Right the way through his education, he would have been reading great works
22:10of literature, some of which would be by Jews, and having a well-rounded education. So the works
22:16of Freud and of Einstein would have been part of his being.
22:23And this shows you the intellectually anarchistic nature of Nazism. It's to destroy the establishment
22:32and recreate it on our own terms. Goebbels' education was fuelled by Jewish scholars Friedrich
22:39Gundolf and Max Freier von Walkberg. And yet here he was calling on students to destroy all Jewish
22:46literary works. Why did he do it? Was he doing it for show, to tow the party line, to show
22:55people
22:56how 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
23:22the newly formed Chamber of Nazi Culture. He now had control of the press, literature, radio,
23:31fine arts, theatre, and films, and the biggest casting couch in Germany.
23:36So he suddenly found himself at the centre of everything, particularly because his work involved
23:47filming, which involved glamorous women. And these glamorous women were finding that Goebbels was at
23:58the centre of all the power. And 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. Germany's most famous film director
24:42was Leni Riefenstahl. It is said that she only escaped Goebbels' clutches due to her sway with her
24:49number 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,
24:59he would just get rid of them and do what he could to block their career.
25:03He created a fabricated world in which he, a person with physical disabilities,
25:16a 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
25:46of the Third Reich. But Goebbels had an affair that not even Hitler knew about, at least initially.
25:53He had become totally besotted with the young Czech actress Lida Barova.
26:00The other issue was with a Czechoslovakian actress who had some Jewish roots,
26:05and this was definitely forbidden. In fact, she might have been one of the few women that
26:10slipped behind his guard, because 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.
26:27The 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.
26:41As 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. His lecherous behavior was becoming more brazen.
26:55He would fondle a woman's breast or grab a woman's buttocks in public, and people knew that he was this
27:03kind of public creepster. But because he was so powerful, people had to bow to his knee. He would
27:11even grab and fondle women in public in front of his wife. He had no qualms about talking about his
27:20sexual
27:21conquests. He wrote in his journal about all of his sexual conquests, 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. But 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 because it was bad for the
28:39whole Nazi family men, family image.
28:43Despite his peccadillos, Goebbels' star continued to rise. He took control of all newspapers,
28:49and handed out millions of cheap radio sets so 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. Hitler's nationalist movement was escalating,
29:15with terrifying speed and violence. And 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 to fabricate
29:33this image of himself and the Nazi movement.
29:39On the evening of November 9th 1938, rioters destroyed synagogues and Jewish shops throughout
29:47Germany and Austria, in 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. Six months later, on the 1st of September 1939,
30:38Germany launched a surprise attack on Poland, triggering 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, and Goebbels appropriated the airwaves of yet
31:00more conquered nations, in 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.
31:36Doesn'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 Annalise Ehrlich rejected his
31:49sexual advances, Goebbels cancelled 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
32:03indulge his sexual interest, grabbing on women in public, having sex with whomever he wished. That was
32:10built into the structure of his status and power as a result of the Nazi party.
32:16The same ruthlessness was later inflicted on Charlotte Thiel, even though she had become
32:22well known for her starring role in the 1943 film Titanic.
32:31He was extremely emotionally manipulative, maybe one of the most infamous and successful manipulators
32:40of all times. And 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, no matter how young
32:56they were. Tyrants often deviate in their sexual behaviour because they can. Because they deviate in all their
33:08other behaviours. They deviate in the use of power. They deviate in the use of relationships generally.
33:22Their relationships with their families are deviants. So the deviation of tyrants in the sexual arena is
33:32just a reflection of their general deviation. And 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, Goebbels became the public
34:03cheerleader 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 about their
34:18downfall, 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
34:34the 20th century. But as a result of his lies, the lies that he told over and over again to
34:42make sure
34:42people would believe them, that millions of people died at his hand.
34:58And as the war turned against the Nazis, Goebbels demanded total war, a fight to the death by the
35:05German people for the sake of the craven Nazi creed for which Goebbels and so many others had sold their
35:12souls. As the combined might of the Allied forces started to reclaim Europe, Hitler's dream was fast
35:19evaporating in a cloud of misery and self-destruction.
35:23We need total and radicals as we are and today, as we can show up.
35:48His propaganda minister's calls to action were now falling on deaf ears.
35:54He fervently believes in this thousand-year Reich that they are right, that they are the people who
36:01will control the entire world and oversee the downfall of the people that they want to subjugate or murder.
36:09Hitler rewarded Goebbels' fanaticism by giving him even greater powers in running the war effort.
36:15By 1945, he essentially became the second most powerful person in Germany.
36:22He was extraordinarily good at being the person who organized all their communications,
36:30who organized their propaganda schemes. And of course, for Hitler's movement, propaganda was central.
36:48But these words soon turned to poison and these words became responsible for the death of millions
36:55of people across the whole world. It's a crushing irony that Goebbels' rise to power was hastened by the
37:02Nazis' flailing war effort. The decimation of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front and then the successful
37:08landing of Allied troops at D-Day meant that Goebbels' incessant lies were more important
37:13than ever to try and prop up the Nazi myth. Nazis in full retreat, less than three weeks after D
37:21-Day,
37:22crushing defeat for the master race. Our infantry smashes forward. By April 1945, however,
37:29no amount of propaganda could save the devastated and dying German war machine. On both sides of the river
37:36spray the charred and twisted graveyard of 300,000 Nazis. In four and a half years, Allied bombs hit Berlin
37:45day and night. Many buildings still standing are mere shells. As the Soviet Red Army moved into Eastern
37:52Germany and the Allies surged from the West, the last vestige of the hateful Nazi regime was caught in a
37:59deadly vice.
38:00So now you have the man who believed in the Nazi ideal until the very last days. The Russians are
38:07surrounding the bunker. They can hear the cannon. They know Hitler's going to kill himself and it's
38:13impossible to ignore reality any longer. They decide that if things aren't going to go their way, if
38:20Germany is going to lose the war, then Hitler and his partner, who became his wife, Eva Braun,
38:27will commit suicide. And Goebbels will do the same. He will follow Hitler to the grave.
38:38On April 30, 1945, a besieged Hitler, determined to avoid the very public humiliation of his long-time
38:46ally Mussolini, shot himself.
38:51Before his bodyguards carried out his instructions by burning his and Eva Braun's bodies.
38:58Bulletin, Adolf Hitler is dead. He is dead and how he died, the world little cares.
39:05For Hitler's death, millions have paid and millions are now thankful for justice.
39:10As per the instructions in Hitler's will, Goebbels became Chancellor of the Reich.
39:16But his time as the Supreme Leader of Germany would 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, Goebbels, his wife Magda and their six children had moved
39:42into the bunker beneath the Reich Chancellery.
39:46I will always be proud of having belonged to a family that, even in adversity and up to the last
39:53moment, has been faithful to the Fuhrer and his pure and holy cause.
40:00Having served only a day as Chancellor, Goebbels prepared to follow his beloved Fuhrer
40:06to his death. But he wouldn't go alone.
40:09What Hitler had done in committing suicide, they now needed to do as well. That was their final
40:18act of loyalty to him.
40:20Magda Goebbels tied white ribbons in her daughter's hair before 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, because his power is taken away, that
40:57also means that the six children that he has brought into the world also deserve to die,
41:03and so does his wife.
41:05Having murdered their children, Magda and Joseph Goebbels then went upstairs,
41:10and with the help of the SS, they 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. It was more painful for him to face reality than to kill himself
41:39and have all of his family killed with him.
41:45So he accompanies Hitler even into death.
41:48Soon after, their remains were found by Soviet troops.
41:53Hitler's chancellery was captured. Hitler 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. He achieved power through his gifts as an excellent propagandist
42:21and orator. But 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, saying the same words or lies often enough that
42:33people start to believe them, and preaching to a disillusioned public. They're really the only
42:39ingredients one would need for this to happen all over again.
42:44Joseph Goebbels left the world a terrible legacy, and it's summed up by his statement that
42:50if you keep repeating a lie, people will believe it. And this has been something that's been repeated
42:55time and time again in tyrannical and oppressive regimes. And we live in a world where the lie
43:04is now almost overriding reality and truth. That's a pretty awful legacy.
43:11A legacy cemented by the horrific brutality his hate-filled invective inspired,
43:17as well as by the hundreds of women he preyed upon and defiled.
44:04I'm doing this to a very corrupt world.
44:06So, as you can say, I'm going to say the poor man who's ever also
44:06You're in peace.
44:07You're in power of a lâmpath.
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