German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1897)

Joseph Goebbels

Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and philologist who was the Gauleiter of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler's closest and most devoted followers and was known for his skills in public speaking and his extreme antisemitism which was evident in his publicly voiced views. He advocated for progressively harsher discrimination, including the extermination of Jews and other groups in the Holocaust.

Born

1897

October 29

Died

1945

Era

1890s

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1897 Born
1945 Died

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312 Constantine the Great enters Rome after his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, stages a grand adventus in the city, and is met with popular jubilation. Maxentius' body is fished out of the Tiber and beheaded.
437 Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople unifying the two branches of the House of Theodosius.
1390 First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people.
1467 Battle of Brustem: Charles the Bold defeats Prince-Bishopric of Liège.

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The world in 1945

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april 1 World War II: The Tenth United States Army attacks the Thirty-Second Japanese Army on Okinawa.
april 11 World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
april 12 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office; Vice President Harry S. Truman succeeds him.
april 12 World War II: The U.S. Ninth Army under General William H. Simpson crosses the Elbe River astride Magdeburg, and reaches Tangermünde—only 80 kilometres from Berlin.

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1897

Alan Kippax 1897–1972 Australian cricketer (died 1972) Albert Aalbers 1897– Dutch architect, designed the Savoy Homann Bidakara Hotel (died 1961) Aneurin Bevan 1897–1960 Welsh-English politician, Secretary of State for Health (born 1897) August Heissmeyer 1897– German SS officer (died 1979) Bernard DeVoto 1897–1955 American historian and author (died 1955) Bill Woodfull 1897–1965 Australian cricketer and educator (born 1897) Constance Savery 1897– English author (died 1999) Denise Robins 1897–1985 English journalist and author (died 1985) Eithne Coyle 1897–1985 Irish republican revolutionary, (died 1985)

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