DOCTOR GOEBBELS: HIS LIFE AND DEATH

Founder of the Reich Chamber of Culture, the Gauleiter of Berlin and the architect of the complex machinery of modern totalitarian propaganda, Josef Goebbels was one of the most dangerous and intelligent members of the Nazi hierarchy. Without his flair for propaganda and impressive organisation the Führer might never have come to power and it was through his understanding of "public enlightenment" that the dictatorship was built and maintained. This book charts the full trajectory of Goebbels's career, showing him at the apex of his power, a master of oratory, a brilliant and cynical showman and a ruthless administrator. It also portrays the man at the end, in the Berlin Bunker; the most devoted of the Führer's henchmen, committing the last gesture of propaganda of which he was capable: the sacrifice of his life and that of his wife and six children.