Paul Jospeh Goebbels was born in 1897. When World War I began, he was kept out of service because of his clubfoot. Intstead, he attended the University of Heidelberg and graduated in 1921, receiving a Ph.D. He began a career as a journalist and wrote a few unsuccesful novels.
He afterwards joined the Nazi Party and worked with Gregor Strasser, who had control of the party in Northern Germany. As the split between Hitler and Strasser developed and deepened, he switched fealty to Hitler and was appointed District Part y Leader in Berlin, where he created a new method of Nazi propaganda. It was called Der Angriff {Attack}. He exploited the emotions of mobs and by employing all modern methods of propaganda, was crucial to Hitler's seizure of power.
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