Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945) was born into a working-class, Catholic family from the Rhineland. He went to a Roman Catholic School and studied history and literature at the University of Heidelberg. During World War I, Goebbels was rejected for military service because of a crippled foot caused by his childhood polio. It is said that he spent the next two days crying in his room.
The next ten years of Goebbels' life was spent writing plays, poems, and novels. When he could not find a publisher for his literature, he decided that it was because the publishing company was own by Jews.…
