Joseph and Magda Goebbels and their six children committed suicide on April 30, 1945, a day after Adolf Hitler took his life. JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century.

She knew Joseph Goebbels as soon as he appeared, of course: small, frail and tense, with his exquisitely neat hair ... when her flat was bombed. The six children were darlings, so well-behaved ...

The Lou Tellegen as well as the Propaganda Minister of Germany is gimpy little Dr. Paul Joseph ... failed to give his usual Christmas broadcast to Germany’s children, Dr. Goebbels rallied ...

that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never again escape from it," wrote Joseph Goebbels in his diary. Adolph Hitler agreed. Following the Nazis' rise to power in 1933 ...

Shortly after assuming the title of German führer ("leader" or "guide") in 1933, Hitler moved to consolidate his power through propaganda campaigns carefully orchestrated by Joseph Goebbels.