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Historical person
1897–1945
Joseph Goebbels was the Nazi propaganda minister and one of Adolf Hitler’s closest political allies. He shaped the regime’s public messaging, antisemitic agitation and mobilisation of German society during the Second World War.
Joseph Goebbels also held the offices or ranks of member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic, member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany, Reich Chancellor, and Gauleiter. Joseph Goebbels belonged to the Goebbels family and operated within Nazi Germany; Germany. Joseph Goebbels was born in Rheydt and died in Führerbunker.
Rory Clements’ Evil in High Places makes Joseph Goebbels’ relationship with a missing film star the reason Sebastian Wolff’s investigation becomes politically dangerous, showing how the propaganda minister’s private influence reaches into policing and the film industry. In Nemesis, Goebbels is central to the propaganda battle over the sinking of the Athenia, promoting the claim that Britain destroyed the liner to manipulate American opinion. Simon Scarrow’s A Death in Berlin sets another criminal investigation inside a capital where party leaders such as Goebbels can shield vice and violence from ordinary law. Erik Larson’s In the Garden of Beasts places Goebbels among the Nazi elite encountered by the American ambassador’s family as they slowly recognise the coercion and theatrical politics sustaining Hitler’s regime.
Series
The CI Schenke novels follow Berlin criminal inspector Horst Schenke during the Second World War. A professional detective who has avoided joining the Nazi Party, Schenke must solve ordinary crimes inside a dictatorship whose police, party and security organisations protect the powerful and turn private secrets into mortal…
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The Detective Sebastian Wolff series follows a Munich police detective attempting to investigate crime as Nazi rule destroys judicial independence. Beginning in the mid-1930s, the novels place disappearances, murder and political violence inside propaganda spectacles, party rivalries and the personal compromises demanded by dictatorship. Wolff’s professional duty repeatedly…
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The Tom Wilde series follows an American-born Cambridge history professor drawn into British and Allied intelligence work from the crises of 1936 through the Second World War and the early Cold War. The novels combine espionage with political extremism, scientific research, royal scandal, propaganda and contested wartime memory.…
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Non Fiction
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