Joseph Goebbels

Examples of Joseph Goebbels in the following topics:

• The Battle of Stalingrad

  • On 18 February, Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels gave the famous Sportpalast speech in Berlin, encouraging the Germans to accept a total war that would claim all resources and efforts from the entire population.
  • Joseph Goebbels read the text of his speech for him on the radio.

• The End of the War

  • Before his death, Hitler had appointed as his successors Admiral Karl Dönitz as the new President of Germany, and Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels as the new Chancellor of Germany.
  • However, Goebbels committed suicide on May 1, 1945, leaving Dönitz as sole leader of Germany.

• War Propaganda

  • The effectiveness of the committee’s techniques was not forgotten, though, as the onset of the world’s next great conflict in 1939 saw revived use of propaganda and information “spin” as a weapon of war, notoriously by Hitler's top polemicist, German Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, but also by the British Ministry of Information and again by the United States through the efforts of the Office of War Information.

• Noninvolvement and the Diffusion of Responsibility

  • Significantly, while all of the 24 charged were all high up in Nazi leadership, they were not the main Nazi war architects, such as Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels, since all three of these men had committed suicide before the trials began.

• The Nuremberg Trials

  • Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and Joseph Goebbels were not included in the trials because all of these men had committed suicide several months before the indictment was signed.

• The Allied Push to Berlin

  • Hitler appointed his successors as follows; Großadmiral Karl Dönitz as the new Reichspräsident ("President of Germany") and Joseph Goebbels as the new Reichskanzler (Chancellor of Germany).
  • However, Goebbels committed suicide the following day, leaving Dönitz as the sole leader of Germany.

• Hitler's Germany

  • Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels made effective use of film, mass rallies, and Hitler's hypnotising oratory to control public opinion.
  • Hitler made a pact with Joseph Stalin and invaded Poland in September 1939, launching World War II in Europe.

• Joseph II and Domestic Reform

  • Joseph II was Holy Roman Emperor from 1765 to 1790 and ruler of the Habsburg lands from 1780 to 1790.
  • Joseph often threatened to resign as co-regent and emperor.
  • When Maria Theresa died in 1780, Joseph became the absolute ruler over the most extensive realm of Central Europe.
  • Joseph continued education and public health reforms initiated by his mother.
  • Joseph II is plowing the field near Slawikowitz in rural southern Moravia in 1769.

• The Pragmatic Sanction

  • In 1703, Charles and Joseph, the sons of Leopold, signed the Mutual Pact of Succession, granting succession rights to the daughters of Joseph and Charles in case of complete extinction of the male line, but favoring Joseph's daughters over Charles's because Joseph was older.
  • In 1705, Leopold I died and was succeeded by his elder son, Joseph I.
  • Six years later, Joseph I died leaving behind two daughters, Archduchesses Maria Josepha and Maria Amalia.
  • Charles succeeded Joseph, according to the Pact, and Maria Josepha became his heir presumptive.
  • His son, Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria, renounced claims on Austria in exchange for the return of his paternal duchy of Bavaria.

• The Law of Definite Composition

  • French chemist Joseph Proust proposed the law of definite composition or proportions based on his experiments conducted between 1798 and 1804 on the elemental composition of water and copper carbonate.