Doctor Goebbels: His Life & Death

it’s a boy!’42 Diary, Mar 22, Aug 1, 15, Sep 8, 1935.43 Unpubl. diary, Apr 9, 11, 1935.382 GOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH44 Diary, Apr 29, Sep 19, 25, Oct 1, 1935.45 Ibid., Apr 15, Aug 1, Sep 4, 1935.46 Ibid., Apr 21, 23, 1935.47 Ibid., Jul 3, 1935 (‘I console her to the best of my ability’).48 Ibid., Jul 8, 1935.49 Ibid., Jul 13, 1935.50 Fromm diary, Nov ,12, 1935.51 Diary, Aug 3, 1935.52 Ibid., Jul 25, Aug 9, 15, 27, 31, 1935.53 Ibid., Sep 25, 1935.54 Ibid., Oct 3, 1935.55 Ibid., Oct 5, 1935. Otto Meissner’s wife later claimed the real father was Hitler: Stars &Stripes, Oct 9, 1946.56 Post mortem on Hellmut Goebbels, May 1945; Behrend, op. cit., No.8, Feb 23, 1952;JG diary, Oct 3, 1941 on the need to put Hellmut with other boys. ‘Nothing’ll come of a boywho grows up surrounded by girls.’ (BA file NL.118/28).57 Diary, Oct 24, 1935.58 Ibid., Nov 21, 1935.59 Ibid., Oct 26, 1935.60 Ibid., Oct 24, 1935; and ZStA Potsdam,Rep.50.01, vol.748.61 t 9, 1935.62 Borresholm, 139.63 Diary, Dec 9, 11, 1935.64 JG to Anka, Christmas 1935 (Irene Prange papers); diary, Jan 1, 9, 1936.65 Ibid., Jan 11, 19, 21, 23, 1936.66 Ibid., Jan 29, 1936.67 Ibid., Jan 29, 1936.68 Ibid., Mar 4, 1936.69 Ibid., Aug 21–27, 1935; JG’s testimony in subsequent court proceedings, 1936 (BA fileKl.Erw.550); Daluege’s final report (BA file R.19/77), and police file (ibid., /406).70 Diary, Oct 11, 13, 1935; the deaths of Gauleiter Wilhelm Loeper and MinisterialratOtto Laubinger, head of his Dept.VI, Theatre also unsettled him: Ibid., Oct 24, 26, 28; Nov1, 9, 1935.71 Newton to Hoare, Jul 31, 1935 (PRO file FO.371/18858).72 Diary, Dec 1, 1935; Borresholm, 137f.73 Diary, Jan 11, 13, 19, 1936. Staging his own press ball he was careful to pre-emptcomparisons (ibid., Jan 17, 1936).74 Ibid., Oct 6, 1936.75 Ibid., Oct 13, 1935.76 RMVP budget for fiscal 1935. Revenues were 18·45m marks higher than estimated;increased domestic propaganda and cultural efforts would increase costs to 37,893,650 marks,partly offset by savings from closing down the Pornographic Literature Censorship office.Rebuilding the opera house had cost 2.9m. JG’s ministerial salary was 102,840 marks less21,640 across-the-board cut, or 86,000 net ($21,000). (ZStA Potsdam, Rep 50.01, vol.1059).GOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH 38377 Julian Petley, Capital and Culture. German Cinema 1933-45 (London, 1979), 60; Viktoriade Grazia, ‘Mass Culture and Sovereignty. The American Challenge to European Cinemas,1920–1960,’ in Journal of Modern History, vol.61, Mar 1989, 53ff.78 Diary, Oct 15, 1935.79 Premiere in Munich’s Gloria Palace cinema, Mar 28; Best Film, May 1; major triumphat Venice festival (diary, Aug 27, 1935).80 Interview with Riefenstahl, Jul 15, 1989. Ufa Filmverleih loaned her 300,000 marks tomake ‘Triumph,’ of which she used 270,000. JG diary, Mar 25 (unpubl.), Aug 17, 21; Oct 3,10; Nov 7, 1935.81 Ibid., Nov 27, 1935.82 Ibid., Jul 21, 23, Aug 17, 1935.83 Ibid., Sep 6, 9, 1935.84 Interrogation of Hans Fritzsche, Nov 1, 1946 (ZStA Nuremberg, F86); and Karl Hederich,Jul 9, 1948 (ibid., G15).85 Diary, Jul 15; he referred to the demo in a speech at Essen, Aug 4; Newton to Hoare,Aug 6, 1935 (PRO file FO.371/18858).86 12 Uhr Blatt, Feb 17, 1933.87 Rösner to legal dept of SA-Gruppe Berlin-Brandenburg, May 4, 1935, quoting witnessesOberführer von Arnim and (the late) Karl Ernst. Hanussen’s killers were named asthe SA men Schmidt alias Schweinbacke, Obersturmbannführer Ohst (Ernst’s adjutant),and Steinle (BDC file, Helldorff).88 SA Gruppe Berlin-Brandenburg to Röhm, Mar 29, 1933 (BDC file, Helldorff).89 Rösner minute, Feb 2, 1935; in Helldorff’s file (BDC) are receipts for 500 and 1,000marks signed by him on Feb 9 and Mar 4, and by Stabsführer von Arnim for 400 marks onMar 4, 1933.90 Diary, Jul 19, 1935; and BDC file, Helldorff.91 Manchester Guardian, Aug 24, 1935: ‘Starving out the Jews.’ RMVP to German FO, Sep 9,1935 (NA film T120, roll 467, 4318).92 Taubert report.—Acquitted at the Reichstag fire trial, Torgler had been taken into ‘protectivecustody’ during which he and fellow communist deputy Maria Reese jointly wrotethis manuscript. The book was suppressed (JG diary, Dec 2), but Torgler himself was freed(diary, Dec 23, 1935); Hitler subsequently paid him 800 marks monthly as a consultantprovided he did not resume his public career (diary, Dec 25–6, 1937). In 1940 he beganworking for the RMVP’s black transmitters. See BA files R.55/450, 567, and 1289.93 Kommunismus ohne Maske (Munich, 1935); Phipps to Hoare, Sep 16, 1935 (PRO fileFO.371/18883).94 For Hitler’s reluctance, see e.g. diary, Jun 25, 1936: ‘Führer strongly disapproves ofwork of all the race agencies.’95 Circular directive by Hinkel to presidents of the sub-chambers, Apr 29, 1936 (BA fileR.56V/102).96 Ibid., Sep 17, 1935.97 Ibid., Oct 1, 5, Nov 1, 7, 15, 1935.98 Ibid., Sep 19, 1935.384 GOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH99 Ibid., Sep 25, 1935. The Bundesarchiv would not permit me to review the missingword. See Introduction.100 Ibid., Oct 1, 1935.101 Ibid., Oct 19; Cabinet, Oct 18; and see Oct 26, Nov 15, 1935.102 Ibid., Nov 1, 1935.103 Ibid., Nov 6, 1935. Emil Ludwig, Der Mord in Davos (Amsterdam, 1936), on which seeZStA Rep.50.01 file 998.104 Ibid., Dec 9–16, 1936. Speaking at Magdeburg in ‘impressive language’ (Phipps) on theworld menace of Jewry, JG stated: ‘I regret that the foreign press should display the attitude“it is not the murderer but the murder victim who is guilty”’ (Phipps to FO, Feb 22, 1936.PRO file FO.371/19922).105 Files on the case in ZStA Potsdam, Rep.50.01, files 570, 714–5, 994–7, 999, 1040.97 Diary Jul 5, 1936.106 Phipps to FO, Nov 3, 1936 (PRO file FO.371/19924).107 JG speech to Eleventh International Penal and Prison congress in Berlin, Aug.1935(ibid., /18880); NYT, Aug 28, 1935.108 JG speech to Wehrmacht academy, ‘The Nature of Propaganda,’ (NA film T78, roll 372,5312ff.)109 Unpubl. diary, May 15, 1935.110 Ibid. May 15, 25, 27, 1935.111 Ibid., May 27, 1935.112 Diary, Aug 19, 1935. As Italy became more deeply involved in Abyssinia JG longed forBritain to declare war on Italy. ‘That’s when we’ll reap the harvest.’113 Ibid., Oct 13, 15, 1935.114 JG speech to gau, Jan 17—the DAZ, Jan 18, alone printed