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Joseph Goebbels  

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  • Paul Joseph Goebbels is credited by contemporary historians with being the single most influential person in propaganda history and the most important leader of the Third Reich next to Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring. For more than 12 years he served as Hitler's minister for Propaganda and Popular Enlightenment and controlled virtually every aspect of Germany's cultural life. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Communication; Goebbels, Joseph (1897–1945)]

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