During 1942 and 1943, when Nazi Germany was passing the peak of its power, Joseph Goebbels wrote a gigantic personal diary, covering every plot, every plan, every doubt and jealousy and confidence of the closely guarded Nazi hierarchy.
Goebbels was closer to Hitler than any of the others, and if he was mad, he was a madman with an eye on history. His diaries are an almost unbearably intimate record of unrelieved evil. Yet they are also the best and most accurate record we are likely to have of what went on inside Germany during the war.
Goebbels was the world's most skillful and immoral liar. He was also we find, one of a very small group of men in wartime Germany who knew the truth about what was happening and what was planned. As he fabricated his network of lies to the German people and to the world by day, he was telling the truth to his diary at night. You will find many remarkable revelations in these diaries.
Goebbels was closer to Hitler than any of the others, and if he was mad, he was a madman with an eye on history. His diaries are an almost unbearably intimate record of unrelieved evil. Yet they are also the best and most accurate record we are likely to have of what went on inside Germany during the war.
Goebbels was the world's most skillful and immoral liar. He was also we find, one of a very small group of men in wartime Germany who knew the truth about what was happening and what was planned. As he fabricated his network of lies to the German people and to the world by day, he was telling the truth to his diary at night. You will find many remarkable revelations in these diaries.
