He is quoted as having said, towards the end of his life, "We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time, or as the greatest criminals." We can only conclude that Goebbels didn't care all that much which one of the two it happened to be it was the adjective "greatest" he was aiming for. Nevertheless, a few years later he allowed his own writings in praise of Jewish authors to be burnt in public.Įverything I have ever read about Goebbels agrees about his profound and complete cynicism, his utter lack of belief in anything except the drive for power. He openly admitted that he owed much to the encouragement and stimulation of Jewish literature and science. Even during the war he would read to his family and friends from Naumann's book In Borrowed Plumes, which he almost knew by heart. Goebbels was one of those responsible for the gruesome final solution.His guilt is all the greater in that he did not himself accept the doctrines of anti-Semitism. Here is a description of Josef from Meissner's biography of Magda: Goebbels was an extraordinarily intelligent and even learned man who had earned a doctorate in literature and philosophy from the University of Heidelberg.
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