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Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Minister of Propaganda kept a diary throughout his time as a member of the Nazi Party and this covers the period of the last weeks of WW2 from February-April, 1945. Only Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's unwavering idolator till the end, was in a position to write this veritable Gotterdammerung of Nazi Europe. Goebbels, the Gauleiter of Berlin and Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment, was Hitler's most trusted confidant, with intimate and virtually daily access to his leader. As Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper, author of The Last Days of Hitler and editor and introducer of this book notes, Goebbels was eloquent, highly intelligent, and ‘the Third Reich's most interesting man besides Hitler'. Joseph Goebbels' diaries surfaced thirty-two years after the violent death of Nazi Germany's arch-propagandist. In the regime's last days, from February to April 1945, Goebbels alternates between despair and vain hopes. He sees treachery and cowardice all around him, particularly in the sybaritic Marshall Hermann Goring, leader of the now impotent Luftwaffe. In Final Entries, Goebbels' malevolent genius stands revealed in its most transparent and personal form. After Hitler's suicide, he became Reichskanzler for a day before arranging for the killing of his six children and the suicide of his wife and himself on 1 May, 1945. Edited, Introduced and annotated by Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper, this is a remarkable account from within of the crumbling of the Nazi empire by its arch-apologist.

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