Further Reading
Biography
Manvell, Roger and Heinrich Fraenkel. Dr. Goebbels: His Life and Death. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960, 306 p.
Details Goebbels's life before and during the Nazi ascendancy in Germany using data from first-hand accounts, letters, and diaries.
Reuth, Ralf Georg. Goebbels, translated by Krishna Winston. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993, 471 p.
Chronicle of Goebbels's life based upon more recently available primary sources.
Riess, Curt. Joseph Goebbels. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1948, 367 p.
Early biography that recognizes the importance of Goebbels's youth. Riess accepts the thorough evilness of his subject and therefore refuses to make moral considerations on Goebbels's character.
Semmler, Rudolf. Goebbels—The Man Next to Hitler, edited by D. McLachlan and G. S. Wagner. London: Westhouse, 1947, 234 p.
Biography, originally written before the discovery of the Goebbels diaries in the West, based on the journals of Semmler from 31 December 1940 to the end of the Second World War.
Criticism
Bramsted, E. K. "The Propagandist in Private." Times Literary Supplement, No. 3970 (May 5, 1978): 506.
Review of Goebbels's diaries from the period 28 February to 10 April, 1945 occasioned by their translation into English.
Breindel, Eric. Review of Final Entries 1945: The Diaries of Joseph Goebbels. The New Republic 179, No. 11 (September 9, 1978): 40.
Review of Goebbels's late diaries notes his admiration for Stalin and "early identification with the more radical 'left-wing' element in the [Nazi] party."
Carsten, F. L. "The Goebbels Diaries." Historical Journal, Vol. 32, No. 3, September, 1989: 751-56
Commentary on Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, a five-volume edition of Goebbels's diaries published in Germany in 1987.
Crossman, R. H. S. Review of The Goebbels Diaries. The New Statesman and Nation XXV, No. 891 (April 3, 1948): 277.
Review of Goebbels's diaries from 1942 to 1943 that highlights the Nazi Propaganda Minister's postwar goals.
Delmer, Sefton. "The Secret Minutes of Dr. Goebbels." Times Literary Supplement, No. 3428 (November 9, 1967): 1063-64.
Discusses Goebbels's methods of subversion and psychological warfare as revealed in the minutes of his daily meetings with the Nazi propaganda chiefs.
Dulles, Allen W. "A Brilliant, Distorted Mind." New York Times Book Review (April 25, 1948): 1, 25.
Review of The Goebbels Diaries 1942-43 that describes the "evil perfection" of his propaganda.
James, Harold. "Minister of Misinformation." Times Literary Supplement, No. 4, 172 (March 18, 1983): 275.
Review of The Goebbels Diaries 1939-41 that examines evidence about Goebbels's personal life and the propaganda techniques he devised and employed in the early years of World War II.
Lemmons, Russel. Goebbels and 'Der Angriff.' Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 1994, 172 p.
Investigates Nazi propaganda in the years prior to 1933, especially that of Goebbels's Berlin newspaper Der Angriff.
Lochner, Louis P. Introduction to The Goebbels Diaries 1942-43, pp. 3-30. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948.
Brief summary of Goebbels's rise to power within the Third Reich.
Speier, Hans. Review of The Goebbels Diaries 1942-43. Public Opinion Quarterly 12, No. 3 (Fall 1948): 500-05.
Comments on textual issues, such as authenticity and scholarly value, relating to Louis Lochner's translation of Goebbels's diaries.
Watts, Richard, Jr. "The Evil Men Do." New Republic 118, No. 17 (April 26, 1948): 21-3.
Review of The Goebbels Diaries 1942-43 that calls this exploration of "the black and bitter recesses of [Goebbels's] soul" a "repulsive but oddly arresting literary adventure."
Additional coverage of Goebbels's life and career is available in the following sources published by Gale Research: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 115, 148.
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