Goebbels
Americannoun
noun
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Other sections are apparently based largely on the author’s speculation, including her belief that Goebbels sent the family to Oahu after discovering Ruth’s Jewish heritage.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
Gilroy points to Joseph Goebbels, the Nazis’ minister of propaganda, as a real-life analogue to those in Emperor Palpatine’s employ who are devoted to manipulating the truth.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2025
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 • Jun. 3, 2024
Kim Ki Nam’s role as the country’s chief propagandist earned him notoriety in South Korea, where media nicknamed him the “North Korean Goebbels,” after Nazi Germany’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
From Seattle Times • May 7, 2024
Goebbels would grow bitterly jealous of her influence with Hitler and the immunity it gave her from his own authority.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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