Goebbels

[ gœ-buhls ]

noun

1. Jo·seph Paul [yoh, -zef poul], 1897–1945, German propaganda director for the Nazis.

Goebbels

/ ˈɡœbəls /

noun

1. GoebbelsPaul Joseph18971945MGermanPOLITICS: Nazi politicianPOLITICS: statesman Paul Joseph (paul ˈjoːzɛf). 1897–1945, German Nazi politician; minister of propaganda (1933–45)

Example Sentences

They included Hitler’s propagandist Joseph Goebbels, who wrote in his diary in 1924: “I believe in the inner, but not the factual, truth of The Protocols.”

From Los Angeles Times

Joseph Goebbels once declared, ‘This will always remain one of the best jokes of democracy, that it gave its deadly enemies the means by which it was destroyed.’

From Salon

I worry that Joseph Goebbels was right about democracy handing its enemies the tools for its own destruction.

From Salon

As a Reichstag delegate, Joseph Goebbels observed, “The big joke on democracy is that it gives its mortal enemies the tools to its own destruction.”

From Salon

In the age of the internet and social media this type of propaganda campaign and psyop is much more powerful than even master Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels could have imagined in the 1940s and 1930s.

From Salon