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The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it.

Joseph Goebbels

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Joseph Goebbels
Age: 47 †
Born: 1897
Born: October 29
Died: 1945
Died: May 1
Autobiographer
Demagogue
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German Politician
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Paul Joseph Goebbels
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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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Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.
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We have had much to bear already. And still more will we have to bear. Let us thank God for being young.
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