aside. At the second conferenceHitler again predicted ‘a great world conflict’ in five or six years’ time. ‘Germany,’ hetold his colleagues, ‘will prevail in a coming battle, or no longer survive.’GOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH 405Thus for the time being Dr Goebbels had to order restraint in the church conflict.‘What a genius the Führer truly is,’ he wrote, setting all this down for posterity.691 ‘Tagebuch für Joseph Goebbels vom 15. September 1936 bis 12. February 1937.’ Onmicrofiche in Moscow archives, Goebbels papers, box 1.2 Holde Goebbels was born in Feb 1937 after seven months, i.e. conceived around July. Asickly, quiet child, she was later spurned by her sisters as ‘slow-witted and boring.’ JG ribbedher mercilessly and often reduced her to tears (Ebermayer & Meissner, Revue, No.20, May17, 1952).3 Based primarily on Lida Baarova: interviewed by myself, Jul 1993; by Ota Filip (transcriptcourtesy of R G Reuth); and by Westdeutscher Rundfunk, May 1991 (‘Goebbels throughthe eyes of Ufa star Lida Baarova’). See too the articles in Die Wochenpost, Stuttgart, Nov 20,1949 (IfZ archives) and by Stan Czech (former Ufa employee and historian), in Heim undWelt, Hanover, No.8 et seq., Feb 1950.4 Ibid., and JG, Aug 19, 1936.5 Diary, Sep 1; cf Basil C Newton to Eden, and Wigram to Eden, Aug 1936, in PRO fileFO.371/20417.6 JG, Der Bolschewismus in Theorie und Praxis (Berlin, 1936). The speech, based on drafts fromTaubert (diary, Sep 2, 4), ran to 64pp. Hitler was delighted (diary, Sep 8); 15pp summary byB C Newton to Eden, Sep 11, 1936 (PRO file FO.371/19948).7 Baarova interviews; cf diary, Sep 10, 1936.8 Diary, Sep 11, 1936.9 Ibid., Sep 12, 1936.10 Ibid., Sep 15, 1936.11 WDR interview. For what it is worth, Julius Schaub later insisted that JG’s affair withLida Baarova was the only one he ever had with an actress, and that his reputation resultedfrom malicious filmstar gossip: manuscript in Irving collection (IfZ, ED.100/202).12 Diary, May 12, 1936: lunch with the Führer, who has ‘grandiose plans’ in foreign policy.—On Nov 30, 1936 JG noted that Hitler was applying his mind to the production of scarce rawmaterials like copper and iron ore within Germany.13 Ibid., May 30, 1936.14 Ibid., May 3, 1936.15 Ibid., Apr 15; and see Oct 16, 1936.16 Ibid., Jun 9, 1936.17 Ibid., Nov 27, 1936.18 Ibid., Apr 4, 6, 16, May 11, 9, Jun 17, Jul 14, Aug 1, Oct 6, 21, 1936; correspondence,Apr 1–Nov 24, 1936 in Rosenberg’s files, NA film T454, roll 74, 0580ff; BA file R56V/102.19 Ibid., Oct 6, 21, 1936.20 Unpubl. diary, Apr 5, 1935.406 GOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH21 Interview of Rudolf von Ribbentrop, Jul 20, 1989.22 Diary, Sep 18, 19, 1936.23 Ibid., Oct 2, 1936; interviews of Lida Baarova.24 For JG’s Bogensee estate see CSDIC(UK) SIR.1008, an interrogation of the Lanke foresterKloss, Sep 26, 1944, with his sketch plan; JG diary, Sep 16–18, 29, 30, Oct 4, 12, 23,Nov 13, 1936.—For JG’s 1939 staff lists at Lanke see BA file R.55/14.25 Diary, Sep 27, 1936. — ‘Tagebuch für Joseph Goebbels am 29. Oktober 1936 bisDezember 1939 (Haus am Bogensee).’ (Microfiche in Moscow archives, Goebbels papers,box 1).26 Ibid., Oct 6, 1936.27 Ibid., Oct 11, 1936: Magda is ‘always the same: friendly, nice, obliging, amiable. I likeher best of all.’28 Who did not come down? The diary (Oct 13, 1936) does not specify.29 Ibid., Oct 29, 1936.30 A former Berlin film talent scout told MI.14, British Intelligence, in 1944 that ‘the soleinhabitant [at Lanke] is a manservant [Kaiser] who is sent away in the evening when Goebbelsentertains. It is here that Goebbels brings women secretly, offering them two alternatives:either to drive back with him to Berlin, or to remain for dinner…’ (PRO file WO.208/4462).31 SS-Untersturmführer Alfred Rach, born Feb 8, 1911 in East Prussia, a stocky, blue eyedex-fitter with a broad Danzig accent, had been JG’s second chauffeur since the beginning of1933. (BDC file). To him would later fall the grim task of burning his master’s corpse.32 Interviewed in prison by Pinguin (Hamburg).33 Ibid., Nov 2, 1936.34 Ibid., Nov 12, 1936.35 Ibid., Nov 18, 1936.36 Ibid., Sep 17, 20, 1936; information from Lady Mosley, Jan 12 and 22, 1994, and seeher memoirs A Life of Contrasts and Loved Ones. W E D Allen, a former Conservative M.P., andCaptain Gordon-Canning were Mosley’s witnesses, Unity Mitford and Magda were the bride’s.37 Ibid., Oct 12, Nov 14, 25, Dec 5, 1936.38 R Likus to Ribbentrop, Dec 17, 1936 (NA film T120, roll 31); Lochner to his children,Dec 10, 1936 (loc. cit.)39 Ibid., Jan 23, Apr 12, 1937.40 Ibid., Jan 20, Oct 2, 1937.41 Ibid., Jan 12, Feb 7, Apr 10, 12, Aug 14, 1937. Lady Mosley does not believe that Hitlerprovided funds, as the diary suggests; he did however help her to meet Ohnesorge, Ministerof Posts, about Sir Oswald’s plan for commercial broadcasting; the French government hadallowed Captain L Plugge, the Conservative MP, to establish Radio Normandy on as similarbasis.42 Diary, Jul 5, 1936.43 Ibid., Jul 18, 1936.44 Ibid., Oct 21, 1936.45 Ibid., Jan 22, 1937; text of JG’s speech to the Wehrmacht course on the elements ofNazi propaganda, Jan 21, 1937 (BA file R.55/1338)GOEBBELS. MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH 40746 Diary, Jan 28, 1937.47 Ibid., Sep 21, 1937. The RMVP subsequently drafted a general plan for propaganda in ahypothetical war, and insisted on independent control of this ‘new weapon’ (Yivo: G-93).48 Diary, Jan 4, 5, 1937.49 Including Erika Dannhoff, who is (diary, Jan 11, 1937) in a good mood and amiable: ‘Soshe’s learnt her lesson from our last talk’.50 Diary, Jan 18, 1937.51 MS of Fromm diary, ‘Feb 20, 1937’ (Boston Univ. Libr., Fromm papers, box 61).52 Diary, Mar 4, 8, 11, 25, 1937.53 Ibid., Feb 3, 1937.54 Ibid., Feb 11; and see Jan 11, 1937.55 Günther Rettelsky to JG, Feb 26, 1937, re Max Kimmich, born Nov 4, 1893 in Ulm(ZStA Potsdam, Magda Goebbels papers, Rep.90 Go 2, vol.2); diary, Feb 18, 1937.56 Ibid., Feb 3, 4, 1937.57 Ibid., Mar 2, 4, 1937.58 Ibid., Mar 18; on Mar 8, 1937 JG had written,
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