In 1929, Goebbels was elected to the Reichstag, whose fire, to all appearances, was one of the researchers, slightly later, in 1933, Hitler comes to power and appointed him minister of propaganda.
Immediately ordered the Ministry to build one just for him, without even asking for the cost, and settled with his family in a palace surrounded by a beautiful garden.
The arts of Nazi Germany fell under the absolute power as Minister of Propaganda Goebbels. The cinema, theater and the Press were under the orders of Goebbels, who organized the German culture as an industry generating adherence and obedience to the Nazi party. I did not want it otherwise.
The music slipped a little this way. The only Jewish composer Hindemith was wiped off the map, but most composers, orchestra directors and performers non-Jews, unlike the writers, chose to stay in Germany. Were cases of Furtwaengler of Gieseking and, most surprising of all, Richard Strauss, who was not only in Germany, as he accepted the leadership of the Reich Music Chamber.
Tragedy in the bunker
In the last hours of Nazi Germany, Hitler, already abandoned by Goering and Himmler and others, dictated the list of the Doenitz government which would succeed to his death.Appointed Goebbels as chancellor. His last major position was that of general-fur bevollmachtigter dentotalen Krieg, in August 1944, something like Attorney General for total war. Days were deadly in the Chancellery bunker, with the Russian artillery to fire continuously. Goebbels wrote that did not want to stay alive after Hitler died.
On May 1, 1945, at dusk, Goebbels called his sons, who were playing in the garden, and no doubt knew what awaited them. Lethal injections were administered by the same physician who was on the eve of Hitler poisoned dogs.
Then Goebbels called his assistant, Gunther Schwaegermann, and told to prepare cans of gasoline. Explained that he had resolved to die with his wife and told her that when the dead were esles watered them with gasoline and caught fire. At half past eight that day, when it began to darken, the Goebbels rose garden of the bunker and there an SS man shot at the two neck. Showered us with gasoline and ignited.
The english version of this article will be available soon. In the meanwhile, the text above was the result of a Google translation from portuguese version to english.
