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Joseph Goebbels
Age: 47 †
Born: 1897
Born: October 29
Died: 1945
Died: May 1
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The Jew is contrary to our being. ... He desecrated our people, spit on our ideals, paralyzed the strength of the nation, made our customs rotten, and polluted the morale.
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I'm looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.
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The night folds her trembling hands over a weary world. Out of a pale blue rises the shining moon. My thoughts are flying to the stars like lonely swans.
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If you tell a lie, tell a big one.
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During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.
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We have made the Reich by propaganda
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A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth
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If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted as truth.
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Christ cannot possibly have been a Jew. I don't have to prove that scientifically. It's a fact.
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Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.
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[Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin.
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Short shrift is made of the Jews in all eastern occupied areas. Tens of thousands of them are liquidated.
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I'm so despondent about everything. Everything I try goes totally wrong. There's no escape from this hole here. I feel drained. So far, I still haven't found a real purpose in life. Sometimes, I'm afraid to get out of bed in the morning. There's nothing to get up for.
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The English follow the principle that when one lies, it should be a big lie, and one should stick to it.
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Propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. If the means achieves the end then the means is good... the new Ministry has no other aim than to unite the nation behind the ideal of the national revolution.
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