Goebbels, Peter Longerich
Goebbels, Peter Longerich
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Goebbels
A Biography

Author: Peter Longerich, Alan Bance, Jeremy Noakes, Lesley Sharpe, Leslie Sharpe

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Unabridged: 28 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/19/2015

Synopsis

As a young man, Joseph Goebbels was a budding narcissist with a constant need of approval. Through political involvement, he found personal affirmation within the German National Socialist Party. In this comprehensive volume, Peter Longerich documents Goebbels’ descent into anti-Semitism and ideology and ascent through the ranks of the Nazi party, where he became an integral member Hitler’s inner circle and where he shaped a brutal campaign of Nazi propaganda.

In life and in his grisly family suicide, Goebbels was one of Hitler’s most loyal acolytes. Though powerful in the party and in wartime Germany, Longerich’s Goebbels is a man dogged by insecurities and consumed by his fierce adherence to the Nazi cause. Longerich engages and challenges the careful self—portrait that Goebbels left behind in his diaries, and, as he delves deep into the mind of Hitler’s master propagandist, Longerich discovers first—hand how the Nazi message was conceived. This complete portrait of the man behind the message is sure to become a standard for historians and students of the holocaust for years to come.

About Peter Longerich

Peter Longerich is professor of modern German history at Royal Holloway University of London and founder of the College's Holocaust Research Centre. An internationally renowned authority on the Nazis, he has published widely on the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, including Holocaust: The Nazi Murder and Persecution of the Jews, which is widely recognized as the standard account of the Nazi machinery of mass murder and the steps by which it unfolded, and Himmler, described by the London Review of Books as "one of the landmark Nazi biographies."

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anthony on August 09, 2023

Deluded. A name that has been etched into the infamy of history is Joseph Goebbels. He was one of Adolf Hitler’s most loyal followers and was at the top of the Nazi regime, famously becoming Chancellor after Hitler’s suicide and then killing himself, his wife Magda and their five children in the bunk......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on October 28, 2014

I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for this honest review. This should teach me to pay more attention when I ask for an ARC. I requested this from NetGalley on a whim when I saw the title, and I didn’t realize that I was getting a book that was almost a thousand pages.* I a......more

Goodreads review by Cold War Conversations Podcast on January 25, 2015

Longerich has set the bar high for anyone to surpass this volume. Peter Longerich is a German professor of history. He is regarded by fellow historians as one of the leading German authorities on the Holocaust. Benefiting from the 1997 discovery of the microfilmed diaries in a Russian archive of Longe......more

Goodreads review by Owen on February 09, 2023

I picked this up after reading a lot on the Entartete Kunst exhibition, thinking it would help to understand exactly what Goebbels was up to and what Nazi cultural policy actually was. It doesn't - in fact, Longerich's argument is very much that Goebbels was a chancer with no strong cultural or even......more

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