8. Joseph Goebbels

Goebbels was Nazi Germany’s propaganda minister. He tried to persuade the Germans and the outside world to believe in Hitler’s regime . Goebbels controlled newspapers, radio programmes, motion pictures and the arts in Germany. At the end of the war, Goebbels and his wife poisoned their six children and then he asked a Nazi soldier to kill them both.




Joseph Goebbels
Image:  Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1968-101-20A / Heinrich Hoffmann / CC-BY-SA 3.0,
  CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons



Words

  • motion picture = movie, film
  • persuade = convince; to make someone believe you
  • poison = something that can lead to death or make you ill if you eat or drink it
  • propaganda = information that is wrong, tells lies or is only part of the truth
  • regime = the government of a country; mostly one that was not elected in a fair way