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Toby Thacker, Joseph Goebbels—Der Journalist. Darstellung seines publizistischen Werdegangs 1923 bis 1933, German History, Volume 29, Issue 4, December 2011, Pages 664–666, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghr008
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More than sixty years after the suicide of Joseph Goebbels in Hitler's bunker in 1945, it is astonishing how many myths—above all about his early adulthood—still abound. This meticulously researched study of Goebbels’ career as a journalist in the period up to 30 January 1933 should serve to dispel some of them, and to correct stereotypical views of Goebbels the propagandist which focus on his influence on film and radio—media which were only really available to him after 1932—and on his public speaking. Simone Richter observes that from his unfulfilled early adulthood through to the end of the Third Reich Goebbels saw himself above all as a journalist, and in this book she reconstructs his involvement in this profession, from his first cultural-political articles in local Rhineland newspapers in the years after the First World War, through his engagement as editor of the Völkische Freiheit in Elberfeld in 1924, then as editor (Schriftleiter) of the Nationalsozialistische Briefe, and finally from July 1927 as editor and leader writer of his own campaigning paper (Kampfblatt) in Berlin, Der Angriff.
