Joseph Goebbels

Paul Joseph Goebbels German ˈpaʊl ˈjoːzɛf ˈɡœbls 29 October 1897 1 May 1945 was a German Nazi politician and philologist who was the Gauleiter district leader of Berlin chief propagandist for the Nazi Party and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945 He was one of Adolf Hitlers closest and most devoted followers known for his skills in public speaking and his deeply virulent antisemitism which was evident in his publicly voiced views He advocated progressively harsher discrimination including the extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust