THREE-PARTY COMMISSION TRILATERAL COMMISSION January 2011 (Second final part of the list of persons)

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LEGEND MADAME X

PACIFIC ASIAN GROUP

Note: Those without city names are Japanese Members.

Chinese and Korean names are shown with surname first.

Narongchai Akrasanee, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Export-Import Bank of Thailand, Bangkok;

former Minister of Commerce of Thailand

Philip Burdon, Chairman, Asia New Zealand Foundation, Wellington; former Chairman, Asia 2000

Foundation; New Zealand Chairman, APEC; former New Zealand Minister of Trade Negotiations

Chen Dongxiao, Vice President, Shanghai Institute for International Studies, Shanghai

Fujio Cho, Chairman of the Board, Toyota Motor Corporation

Cho Suck-Rai, Chairman, Hyosung Corporation, Seoul

Chung Mong-Joon, Member, Korean National Assembly; Vice President, Federation Internationale de

Football Association (FIFA),Seoul

Tarun Das, President, Aspen Institute India, Gurgaon, New Delhi; former Chief Mentor, Confederation

of Indian Industry (CII)

Barry Desker, Dean, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University

(NTU), Singapore

Takashi Ejiri, Partner, Nishimura & Asahi

Jesus P. Estanislao, Chairman, Institute for Solidarity in Asia; Chairman, Institute of Corporate

Directors, Manila; former Philippine Secretary of Finance

Hugh Fletcher, Chancellor, The University of Auckland; former Chief Executive Officer, Fletcher

Challenge

Hiroaki Fujii, Chairman, Mori Arts Center; Advisor, The Japan Foundation, former Japanese

Ambassador to the United Kingdom

Shinji Fukukawa, Chairman, TEPIA, The Machine Industry Memorial Foundation

Yoichi Funabashi, Editor-in-Chief, The Asahi Shimbun

Victor K. Fung, Chairman, Li & Fung Group, Hong Kong

Carrillo Gantner, President, The Myer Foundation, Melbourne

Ross Garnaut, Professor of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian

National University, Canberra

Jamshyd N. Godrej, Chairman & Managing Director, Godrej & Boyce Mfg Co. Ltd., Mumbai;

Chairman, CII Climate Change Council, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), New Delhi

*Toyoo Gyohten, President, Institute for International Monetary Affairs; Senior Advisor, The Bank of

Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.

*Han Sung-Joo, Chairman, The Asan Institute for Policy Studies; former President, Korea University,

Seoul; former Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs; former Korean Ambassador to the United States;

Pacific Asia Deputy Chairman, Trilateral Commission

*Stuart Harris, Professor of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies,

Australian National University, Canberra; former Australian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs

Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Azman Hashim, Chairman, AmBank Group, Kuala Lumpur 15

John R. Hewson, Chairman, GlobalDC; Chairman, The John Hewson Group, Sydney; former Leader of

the Federal Opposition, Australia; Special Adviser to the Under Secretary of the United Nations;

Executive Secretary, UNESCAP on Infrastructure Financing

Ernest M. Higa, President, Higa Industries Co., Ltd.

Hong Seok Hyun, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Joong Ang Ilbo, Seoul; former Korean

Ambassador to the United States

Shintaro Hori, Chairman, Bain Capital Japan, Inc.

Murray Horn, Managing Director, Institutional Banking, ANZ (NZ) Ltd., Sydney; Chairman, ANZ

Investment Bank; former Parliament Secretary, New Zealand Treasury

Huang Renwei, Vice President, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai

Hyun Hong-Choo, Senior Partner, Kim & Chang, Seoul; former Korean Ambassador to the United

Nations and to the United States

Hyun Jae-Hyun, Chairman, Tong Yang Group, Seoul

Shin’ichi Ichimura, Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University; former Director, International Centre for the

Study of East Asian Development, Kitakyushu

Noriyuki Inoue, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Daikin Industries, Ltd.

Jamshyd Irani, Director, Tata Sons, Ltd., Mumbai

Tan Sri Mohamed Jawhar, Chairman, Institute of Strategic International Studies (ISIS), Malaysia

Motoo Kaji, Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo

Kasem Kasemsri, Honorary Chairman, Thailand-U.S. Business Council, Bangkok; Chairman, Advisory

Board, Chart Thai Party; Chairman, Thai-Malaysian Association; former Deputy Prime Minister of

Thailand

Koichi Kato, Member, Japanese House of Representatives; former Secretary-General, Liberal

Democratic Party

Kim Kihwan, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Korea Development Institute, Seoul; Chair, Seoul

Financial Forum; former Korean Ambassador-at-Large for Economic Affairs

Kim Kyung-Won, President Emeritus, Seoul Forum for International Affairs, Seoul; Senior Advisor,

Kim & Chang Law Office; former Korean Ambassador to the United States and the United Nations

Eizo Kobayashi, Chairman, ITOCHU Corporation

Shoichiro Kobayashi, Advisor, Kansai Electric Power Company, Ltd.

*Yotaro Kobayashi, former Chairman of the Board, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.; Pacific Asian Chairman,

Trilateral Commission

Akira Kojima, Trustee & Senior Fellow, Japan Center for Economic Research (JCER)

Koo John, Chairman and CEO, LS Corporation, Seoul

Kenji Kosaka, former member, Japanese House of Representatives; former Minister of Education,

Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

*Lee Hong-Koo, Chairman of the Board, Seoul Forum for International Affairs, Seoul; former Korean

Prime Minister; former Korean Ambassador to the United Kingdom and the United States

Lee Jay Y., Executive Vice President, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Seoul

Lee Kyungsook Choi, Vice Chairperson, Korean National Committee for UNESCO, Seoul; former

Chairperson, Korean Presidential Transition Committee; former President, Sookmyung Women's

University

Lee Shin-wha, Professor & Chair, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Korea

University, Seoul

Leong Vai Tac, Member, Executive Council, Macao SAR Governement; Deputy to the 11th

National

People’s Congress; CEO, Seng San Enterprises, Ltd.; Chairman,Smartable Holding Ltd., Macau

Adrianto Machribie, Chairman, PT Freeport Indonesia, Jakarta

*Minoru Makihara, Senior Corporate Advisor, Mitsubishi Corporation

Hiroshi Mikitani, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Rakuten, Inc.

Yoshihiko Miyauchi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ORIX Corporation 16

Isamu Miyazaki, Honorary Advisor, Daiwa Institute of Research, Ltd.; former Director-General of the

Japanese Economic Planning Agency

Yuzaburo Mogi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Kikkoman Corporation

Mike Moore, former Director-General, World Trade Organization, Geneva; former Prime Minister of

New Zealand

Hugh Morgan, Principal, First Charnock, Melbourne

Moriyuki Motono, former Japanese Ambassador to France

Satoru Murase, Partner, Bingham McCutchen Murase, New York

N.R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman of the Board and Chief Mentor, Infosys Technologies Ltd.,

Bangalore

Osamu Nagayama, President and Chief Executive Officer, Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Philip Ng, Chief Executive Officer, Far East Organization, Singapore

Masashi Nishihara, President, Research Institute for Peace and Security

Roberto F. de Ocampo,Chairman, Board of Advisors, RFO Center for Public Finance & Regional

Economic Cooperation, Manila; former Philippine Secretary of Finance

Sadako Ogata, President, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA); former United Nations High

Commissioner for Refugees

Shijuro Ogata, former Deputy Governor, Japan Development Bank; former Deputy Governor for

International Relations, Bank of Japan

Sozaburo Okamatsu, President, Industrial Property Cooperation Center; former Chairman, Research

Institute of Economy, Trade & Industry (RIETI)

*Yoshio Okawara, Special Advisor, Institute for International Policy Studies (IIPS); former Japanese

Ambassador to the United States

Yoichi Okita, Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies

Ariyoshi Okumura, Chairman, Lotus Corporate Advisory, Inc.

Ong Keng Yong, Ambassador-at-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Director, Institute of Policy

Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore; former ASEAN

Secretary General

Takuma Otoshi, Chairman, IBM Japan, Ltd.

Anand Panyarachun, Chairman, Thai Industrial Federation, Bangkok; Chairman, Saha-Union Public

Company, Ltd.; former Prime Minister of Thailand

Qin Yaqing, Vice President, China Foreign Affairs University, Beijing

Ryu Jin Roy, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Poongsan Corp., Seoul

Eisuke Sakakibara, Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University; former Japanese Vice Minister of Finance

for International Affairs

SaKong Il, Chair of the Presidential Committee for G20 Summit, Office of the President of Republic of

Korea; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Korea International Trade Association, Seoul; former

Korean Minister of Finance

Yoshiyasu Sato, Advisor, Shiseido Co. Ltd.; former Japanese Ambassador to China

Yukio Satoh, Member of Japan’s National Commission on Public Safety; Vice Chairman of the Board of

Trustees, The Japan Institute of International Affairs; former Japanese Ambassador to the United

Nations

Masahide Shibusawa, President, Shibusawa Ei’ichi Memorial Foundation

Shin Dong-Bin, Vice-President, Lotte Group, Seoul

Yasuhisa Shiozaki, Member, Japanese House of Representatives; former Chief Cabinet Secretary

Arifin Siregar, Chairman of the Governing Board, Indonesian Council on World Affairs (ICWA),

Jakarta; former International Advisor, Goldman Sachs (Pacific Asia) LLC; former Ambassador of

Indonesia to the United States

Jacob Soetoyo, Executive Director, The Gesit Companies, Jakarta

Howard Stringer, Chairman, President and CEO, Sony Corporation 17

Shigemitsu Sugisaki, Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs Japan Co., Ltd.; former Deputy Managing

Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Dato’ Sri Dr. Tahir, President & CEO, Mayapada Group, Jakarta

Keizo Takemi, former Member, Japanese House of Councillors; former Vice Minister for Health, Labour

and Welfare of Japan

Akihiko Tanaka, Managing Director and Executive Vice-President, University of Tokyo

Hitoshi Tanaka, Chairman, Institute for International Strategy (IIS), Japan Research Institute, Ltd.;

Senior Fellow, Japan Center for International Exchange; former Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs

Naoki Tanaka, President, Center for International Public Policy Studies

Teh Kok Peng, President, GIC Special Investments Private Ltd., Singapore

Gautam Thapar, Chairman and CEO, Avantha Group, New Delhi, Chairman, Aspen Institute India

Kiyoshi Tsugawa, Member of the Board, Aozora Bank, Ltd.

Junichi Ujiie, Chairman, Nomura Holdings, Inc.

Sarasin Viraphol, Executive Vice President, Charoen Pokphand Co., Ltd., Bangkok; former Deputy

Permanent Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Thailand

Cesar E. A. Virata, Director and Corporate Vice Chairman and Acting Chief Executive Officer, Rizal

Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC), Manila; former Prime Minister of Philippines

*Jusuf Wanandi, Vice Chairman, Board of Trustees, CSIS Foundation, Centre for Strategic and

International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta

Wang Jisi, Dean, School of International Relations, Peking University, Beijing

Etsuya Washio, President, The Foundation for Workers Welfare and Cooperative Insurance; former

President, Japanese Trade Union Confederation (RENGO)

Koji Watanabe, Senior Fellow, Japan Center for International Exchange; former Japanese Ambassador

to Russia

Osamu Watanabe, President, Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd.

Wei Jianguo, former Vice Minister of Commerce, Beijing

YY Wong, Chairman and Founder, Wywy Group, Singapore

Wu Jianmin, Member, Foreign Policy Advisory Committee, Chinese Foreign Ministry, Beijing; Member,

European Academy of Sciences; Honorary President, Bureau of International Exhibitions; former

Chinese Ambassador to France

Taizo Yakushiji, Research Counselor, Institute for International Policy Studies; Visiting Professor,

National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)

Ryuji Yamada, President and Chief Executive Officer, NTT Docomo, Inc.

Tadashi Yamamoto, President, Japan Center for International Exchange; Pacific Asia Director, Trilateral

Commission

Yang Jiemian, President, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, Shanghai

Noriyuki Yonemura, Secretary General, Intellectual Collaboration Group to Promote Market-Oriented

Economics

Zhang Yunling, Professor and Director, Academic Division of International Studies, Chinese Academy

of Social Sciences (CASS), Beijing

Former Member in Public Service

Hisashi Owada, President, International Court of Justice

PARTICIPANTS FROM OTHER AREAS

“Triennium Participants”

Andr; Azoulay, Adviser to H.M. King Mohammed VI, Rabat

Morris Chang, Chairman, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Taipei

Omar Davies, Member of the Jamaican Parliament and former Minister of Finance and Planning,

Kingston; former Director General, Planning Institute of Jamaica

H;sn; Dogan, General Coordinator, Nurol Holding; former Chairman of the Board of Trustees,

Development Foundation of Turkey; former Minister of Defence, Ankara

Alejandro Foxley, Senior Associate, Carnegie International Economics Program, Washington, DC;

former Chilean Minister of Foreign Affairs, Valparaiso

Jacob A. Frenkel, Chairman, JPMorgan Chase International, New York, NY; Chairman and CEO, Group

of Thirty (G30); former Vice Chairman, American International Group, Inc. (AIG); former Governor,

Bank of Israel

Frene Ginwala, former Speaker of the National Assembly, Parliament of the Republic of South Africa,

Cape Town

H.R.H. Prince El Hassan bin Talal, President, The Club of Rome; Moderator of the World Conference

on Religion and Peace; Chairman, Arab Thought Forum, Amman

Ricardo Hausmann, Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, Center for International

Development, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; former

Chief Economist, Inter-American Development Bank; former Venezuelan Minister of Planning and

Member of the Board of the Central Bank of Venezuela

Sergei Karaganov, Dean, School of World Economics and International Affairs, State University–Higher

School of Economics; Chairman, Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy;

Chairman, Editorial Board, “Russia in Global Affairs,” Moscow

Jeffrey L.S. Koo, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Chinatrust Investment, Bank, Taipei

Ricardo Lopez Murphy, Visiting Research Fellow, Latin American Economic Research Foundation,

Buenos Aires; former Argentinian Finance Minister and Defence Minister

Andr;nico Luksic Craig, Vice Chairman, Banco de Chile, Santiago

Itamar Rabinovich, Ettinger Chair of Contemporary Middle Eastern History, Tel Aviv University, Tel

Aviv; Charles and Andrea Bronfman Distinguished Fellow at the Saban Center, The Brookings

Institution; Distinguished Global Professor at New York University; Visiting Professor, Kennedy

School of Government, Harvard University; former Ambassador to the United States

R;sd; Saracoglu, President of the Finance Group, Ko; Holding; Chairman, Makro Consulting, Istanbul;

former State Minister and Member of the Turkish Parliament; former Governor of the Central Bank

of Turkey

Roberto Egydio Setubal, President and Chief Executive Officer, Banco Ita; S.A. and Banco Ita;

Holding Financeira S.A., Sao Paulo

Stan Shih, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Acer Group, Taipei

Grigory A. Yavlinsky, Chairman and Co-Founder of the Russian Democratic Party “Yabloko” and

former Member of the State Duma; Chairman of the Center for Economic and Political Research, Moscow

Reichstag, Berlin 1945.

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Joseph Paul Goebbels (Goebbels) (1897-1945)

Joseph Paul Goebbels is a small man, only 154 cm tall, with a curved foot and too long nose. With his treacherous singing, he, like the legendary siren Lorelyi, lured all the German people to the deadly rocks. What is the secret of his power?

A high-ranking leader of the Nazi party, the chief propagandist of the Third Reich, a close ally and friend of Hitler. Goebbels was born on October 29, 1897 in Reytte, Rhineland. His father worked as an accountant and was a very devout man, he hoped that his son would become a priest of the Roman Catholic Church. Goebbels learned the torments of unsatisfied vanity early. His family was willing to make any sacrifices to get into the respectable middle class. On cold winter evenings, the boy played the piano (symbol of bourgeoisness) with freezing fingers, pulling a hat deeper - because there was no money for heating. Goebbels, against the will of his father, dreaming of a career as a writer or journalist, after graduating from burghershalle and high school in Reid, preferred to study the humanities. From 1917 to 1921 he studied philosophy, Germanism, history and literature at the universities of Freiburg, Bonn, Wurzburg, Cologne, Munich and Heidelberg. At the University of Heidelberg, under the direction of Professor Friedrich Gundolf, a historian of literature, a Jew, Goebbels defended in 1921 a thesis on romantic drama, and acquired a degree.

When the First World War began, Goebbels was declared unfit for military service because of lameness (he was born disabled), which hurt his self-love, because he considered it a shame for himself the inability to serve his country during the war. He always felt very acutely and painfully his own physical inferiority, as he constantly felt behind his back humiliating taunts of comrades who called him by the eyes "little mouse doctor". Students from wealthy families mocked the lame young man, he paid them with contempt, and he was so proud that he preferred to starve, but refused the offerings of his housewife. His inoc pinched self-love gave rise to deep-seated hatred, compounded in the future by the need to speak to a healthy, blue-eyed "Aryan" audience.

In 1922 he joined the NSDAP, initially joining its left-wing, socialist wing, whose leaders were the Strasser brothers at the time. In 1924, having moved to Ruhr, Goebbels tried his hand at journalism - as editor of "Felkishe Freichet" ("People's Freedom") in Elberfeld, then in Strasser's "NS-Brif". This period, colored by the furious polemics between Strascer and Hitler about the degree of socialism in the National Socialist movement, belongs to Goebbels' famous saying: "Bourgeois Adolf Hitler should be expelled from the National Socialist Party!".

However, in 1926 his political sympathies changed dramatically in favor of Hitler, whom he began to perceive "either as Christ or as St. John." John." "Adolf Hitler, I love you!" he wrote in his diary. And it was Hitler who first noticed the magic golden hairs in Goebbels' dark hair. His praises of the Fuhrer were fervent: "Even before the trial in Munich, you appeared before us in the guise of a leader. What you said there are the greatest revelations that have not been heard in Germany since Bismarck. God gave you the words to call Germany's ailments. You started from the very bottom, like any true great leader. And like every leader, you became more and more majestic as your tasks became more majestic."

Such words could not but attract Hitler's favorable attention. In 1926 he appointed Goebbels Gauleiter NSDAP in Berlin-Brandenburg. It was in the capital that Goebbels' oratorical abilities were revealed, which predetermined his future as the main agitator and propagandist of the Nazi Party, and later the entire Reich.

"Our thoughts are on the soldiers of the German revolution who threw their lives on the altar of the future for Germany to rise up again... retribution! retribution! His day is coming... We bow our heads in front of you, dead. Germany begins to awaken in the gleams of your spilled blood... Let the marching step of the brown battalions be laid out: For freedom! Storm soldiers! An army of the dead marches with you into the future!"

The exaggerated romanticism of goebbels' speeches created a striking contrast with his deeds. This romantic at the beginning of his oratorical activity considered the rally a failure, if no one was beaten on it. Goebbels achieves fame at all costs and attracts masses of people who were thrown to the sidelines by the post-war crisis in the country and the world economic depression. His performances gather tens of thousands of people in Lustgarten Park. Hitler appoints a "baby doctor" Reichsleitir NSDAP on propaganda issues.

From 1927 to 1935, he was editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Angriff. The new newspaper was conceived as a "publication for all tastes" and had on the first page a motto: "Long live the oppressed, down the exploiters!" Goebbels's main desire was to attract a mass reader, and for this he tried to write in a popular manner, abandoning all objectivity. He, like Hitler, was convinced of the unpretentiousness of mass consciousness and the addiction of the masses to simple unilateral decisions. As tiny as the new leaf was, Goebbels used modern methods of advertising to alert the world to its appearance. The first rule, which he learned, read: "The public should be intrigued even before the appearance of the goods!" and for this purpose were issued, one after another, three advertising posters, pasted on the streets of Berlin. The first asked, "Attack us?" the second declared, "We are attacking on July 4!", and the third explained: "Attack" ("Der Angriff") is a new German weekly newspaper, published under the motto "For the oppressed! Down with the exploiters!" and its editor is Dr. Joseph Goebbels. The newspaper has its own political program. Every German, every German woman should read our newspaper and subscribe to it!" the new newspaper addressed its attacks on two main fronts. First, it incited readers to speak out against democracy, i.e. against the existing Weimar Republic, and secondly, to inflame and exploit anti-Semitic sentiments. The slogan of the newspaper is "Germany, wake up! In the end, the newspaper was a resounding success, it became the main mouthpiece of the party.

In 1928 Goebbels was elected deputy of the Reichstag from the Nazi party. At numerous rallies and demonstrations, this little man with a long nose, constantly dressed in a cloak that was too long for him, with a strong and sharp voice, shouting sarcasm and insults at the Berlin city government, Jews and communists, managed to attract widespread attention. He "discovered" In Horst Wessel, a Nazi killed in a street brawl, a political martyr, and put forward Wessel's foul poems as the official party anthem. Hitler was so impressed and delighted with Goebbels' work in Berlin that he appointed him in 1929 as The Imperial Propaganda Leader of the Nazi Party. It is Goebbels, more than anyone else, who owns the laurels for such a rapid advance of Hitler to the top of political power. In 1932, he organized and led Hitler's presidential election campaigns, doubling his electoral vote. His propaganda was crucial on the eve of Hitler's inauguration as chancellor. Goebbels demonstrated the amazing ability of psychological impact on the audience. His "Ten Commandments of the National Socialist," written at the dawn of the Nazi movement, became a prototype of the party's ideological agenda.

After becoming chancellor, Hitler on March 13, 1933 appointed Goebbels Reichsministor as the national education and propaganda, instructing him to use all means to implement the Lyahshaltung program. In this activity Goebbels demonstrated that there are no principles or morals for him. He subordinated all elements of the life of the country - the press, cinema, theater, radio, sports - to national-socialist ideals and became essentially a dictator of the cultural life of the nation. To please Hitler, he made vicious and violent attacks against Jews. In May 1933, on the initiative of Goebbels, several German universities publicly burned books. Destroying Heinrich Heine's books across the country, he assembled a large collection of his lifetime editions to enjoy them alone. Alone with himself, goebbels didn't care that Heine was Jewish. He took the form of a zealot of "racial purity" to please the Fuhrer, and at the same time with typical Goebbels cynicism poured jokes from Jewish humor, inserted words in Hebrew and Yiddish, and his fined subordinates said that the Jews would cope with their work better: "If only I could replace you with Jews!"

Goebbels loved women, and they reciprocated. There were stories of him using his power to get some beauty into bed. But the stories were brazenly lied to. He just didn't need to do that. He knew how to interest women, and they came to him themselves. Like butterflies on fire, even without much self-serving motives. His wife Magda Kwant, a beautiful and elegant lady whom Hitler considered the standard of Nordic beauty, divorced a Jewish businessman, and six of them and Joseph's children became special favorites among the closest entourage of the Fuhrer in Berkhtesgaden.

During the Second World War, Goebbels was tasked with maintaining the morale of the nation. His propaganda machine was aimed at causing discontent with Soviet Russia and encouraging the Germans to hold on until the final victory. This task became more and more difficult when the course of the war turned in favor of the Allies. Goebbels worked vigorously to support the morale of the Germans, constantly reminding them of their fate in the event of surrender. After the failure of the July 1944 conspiracy, Hitler appointed Goebbels as the chief mobilization commissioner for the "total war" and instructed him to collect all material and human resources to fight to the last drop of blood. He supported the myth of the "national heroes" who were dying and created the Werwolf Resistance Organization, which brought many sleepless nights to allied leaders and distracted large military forces to fight the non-existent danger. But it was too late: Germany was on the brink of doom.

But the propaganda machine worked as an exact mechanism, the main wheel of which was Goebbels. All executive decisions came personally from him. This was his strength, but also the weakness of the Nazi system based on the "Fuhrer Principle": no one could stop Goebbels when he made a mistake. But Goebbels was such that he made only one mistake. With his submission, propaganda at the beginning of the war took an overly optimistic tone. Glorious victories of the Wehrmacht were signed without concern for their authenticity. The English aircraft carrier Ark Royal was sunk by Goebbels twice in September 1939. Once by torpedo, the other by an air bomb. At a ministerial briefing in January 1943, after the defeat of the 6th Army near Stalingrad, Goebbels said: "... propaganda from the very beginning of the war has taken the following erroneous development: the 1st year of war: We have won. 2nd year of war: We will win. 3rd year of war: We must win. 4th year of war: We cannot be defeated. Such development is disastrous and should not continue under any circumstances. Rather, the German public must be brought to the consciousness that we not only want and must win, but in particular also that we can win."

The impending collapse could not instill in him the will to the truth. Up to the last minutes of the existence of the Reich propaganda, as a melody of the Gammel piper, fascinated the zombie masses towards death. In his last remaining newspaper, the Panzerber battle sheet for the defenders of Greater Berlin, the minister continued to claim that the capital would be liberated, the Bolsheviks would be thrown away and Germany's position would change for the better. On April 27, Goebbels issued an order that the besieged city be literally pelted with leaflets. The Berliners could see that these leaflets were for the soldiers of the Wreath Army, not for them. In fact, they were addressed to the locals - to raise their morale. Goebbels was well aware that General Venk's army no longer existed.

It should also be noted that in the last years of the war Goebbels was the only Nazi elite to appear in public. He often visited the wounded in hospitals, homeless people in the ruins of their former homes. And wherever he appeared he gave fiery speeches that returned to the already lost forces to fight people fanatical faith in the power of German weapons and the genius of the Fuhrer, returned the desire to surrender for Great Germany, for their children and grandchildren, who will live happily when the war is over, and the world will reign millennial Reich.

In April 1945, true to his sense of mystical arrogance, Goebbels advised Hitler to stay in Berlin in the Fuhrerbunker and, if necessary, meet there dazzling mystical "Twilight of the Gods" (Gotterdammerung). Only in this way, Goebbels argued, can the legend of the great Hitler be preserved. The Fuhrer agreed. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945, Goebbels, in a state of euphoria, compared this event to the similarity in the fate of Frederick the Great, when Catherine died and the war was won. Hitler's state of mind for a while uplifted. In a political testament, Hitler appointed Goebbels as his successor as Reich Chancellor. Immediately after Hitler's suicide, Goebbels and Bormann made a last attempt to negotiate with the Russians. When it became clear that this was not possible, Goebbels decided to kill himself. Magda Goebbels poisoned her six children and killed herself. Then goebbels took his own life. He could have lived for many years, he would not have been convicted at the Nuremberg Trials, as he did not commit crimes against humanity, but, unlike other close Hitler, he found the strength to follow the Fuhrer to the end, although he was offered to surrender to Western allies.

Goebbels remained in history as a man who was able to lead millions of people. In fact, he is the father-ancestor of modern advertising. He perfectly felt the mood of the crowd, he knew what and when to speak. In this he had no equal anywhere. And at the same time, he hated that stupid crowd he learned to control, which he taught to think right, to do the right thing, and to say it right to live. He formed social tastes for literature, cinema, art in general. He created a system that consisted of ordinary people from the crowd who were the gears of this gigantic propaganda machine, which until the end of the war never failed.

Goebbels lost only one battle in his career: the battle for Berlin. Even his enemies recognized his genius, even if he was evil. His performance, intelligence and breadth of application of his talents amazed everyone. He wrote articles in newspapers and magazines, composed plays for theaters and scripts for propaganda films, came up with slogans for posters and developed their concept (posters), while successfully fighting their political enemies. He was a genius but an evil genius 🦹 ♀️. These are geniuses, too.

The truth is that for every such fucked genius, we exhibit 100 geniuses.

On May 2, 1945, the bodies of a man and a woman with charred golden party badges of the NSDAP were found in a pit near Hitler's bunker, and two Walter pistols with bullets exploded in them. A gold cigarette case was also found next to the woman with an inscription on the inside of "A. Hitler. 1943». The characteristic shape of the head of a male corpse with a sharp protruding back of the head and a visibly prominent forward upper jaw coupled with a charred prosthesis and the remains of an orthopedic shoe on his right leg left no doubt in the well-known witnesses who knew him during his lifetime that before them the corpse of the Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels. In favor of the version that next to him the corpse of Magda Goebbels, said the testimony: his golden cigarette case Hitler a few days before the suicide gave it to Magda - goebbels' wife.

The next day, May 3, 1945, when inspecting the bunker premises, the Soviet military counterintelligence officers made an even more terrible find, finding in one of the bedrooms on the beds the corpses of six children - five girls and one boy in night shirts. In the rooms there was a sharp smell of almonds, characteristic of potassium cyanide. Head of personal protection Goebbels V. Eccald, doctor of the Reich Chancellery G. Kunz, dental technician K. Goiserman and other witnesses identified in the corpses of children Joseph and Magda Goebbels. Forensic evidence confirmed the cause of their deaths. The investigation into the murder of the children revealed a wild truth: they were poisoned by their own mother.

why?

Let everyone answer this question themselves.

"Goebbels was taken to a Berlin street. The Nazi uniform - dark wool trousers and light brown ket - are all in tatters, in rusty traces of fire. The wind is turning yellow tie. I remember him most, this half-burnt tie - a yellow silk loop on a black, charred neck - picked up by a round metal badge with a swastika. The people of Berlin, who have emerged from the cellars, look at one of the main culprits of their disaster. It is filmed for the next issue of the film magazine and for the historical film library. It was he who lit the first bookfire, and the flame of this fire broke out over Germany.

The Imperial Commissioner of Defense of Berlin, he falsely condemned to the death of his fellow citizens, lied to the last breath: "The Army of Wreath goes to the rescue of Berlin!" hung soldiers and officers for retreating.

Goebbels was taken under the wing of the Strasser brothers and became a representative of the most radical part of the Nazi party, which called not only for a social revolution, but also for an alliance with the Soviet Union, "a natural ally of Germany against the diabolical temptations and decay of the West." The sense of resentment he had been hoarding for so long has now found purpose in those whom the Nazis saw as scapegoats. During this period he was not yet associated with Adolf Hitler. In fact, he helped write a project of a socially oriented program that Gregor Strasser put forward at the Bamberg Conference in 1926.

"He is like a child - sweet, kind and compassionate. He's smart and smart like a cat. Like a snarling lion, he is big and huge. What a comrade, what a man... He preaches a new state for which we must fight. The cloud is taken byformusvastics. Sparkling light-luminess. This is not a star. Is this a sign of fate? ... Adolf Hitler, I love you."

Can such words be sincere? Of course, every writer mechanically exaggerates and dramatizes. However, this excerpt from the diary was not published during Goebbels' lifetime, and the statements on the adjacent pages contain sensitive revelations, including horror in front of his exhausted appearance and shyness in front of women. Even the cynic needs to believe in something, perhaps the cynic needs it even more than the others. Goebbels became a staunch supporter of Hitler's ability to bring the Nazi party to power. "I bow to a greater man. Before a political genius!"

He worked with all ferocity at the level of the whole country. In 1928, the Reichstag elections were unsuccessful for the Nazis: they won only 12 seats. However, this was only the beginning, especially considering that Goebbels himself was elected. In the subsequent elections he was responsible for all national campaigns of the Nazis. For the september 1930 election race, he organized some 6,000 meetings and distributed millions of pamphlets and posters aimed at the problems of the German economy; In addition, he organized the guys in heavy shoes with batons and brass knuckles. The Nazis won 107 seats. In July 1932, after working on Hitler's election campaign for the reich president and elections to the Prussian Landtag, Goebbels again led the Nazi electoral efforts at the national level. With 230 seats, they became the largest party in the Reichstag. For the most part, it was a victory for Goebbels' combination of propaganda and violence. At least 86 Germans were killed in one month alone.

Twice during the summer of 1932 Goebbels warmed up the audience before Hitler's speech. The two of them made an amazing impact. Despite the tiny growth, Goebbels had a sonorous unforgettable baritone (according to an eyewitness, "as if the waterfall was pouring out of the pipette"). He worried the crowd, creating an "even more excited audience response." His arguments were always logically constructed, while Hitler's words were confusing and vague. "Those who have seen and heard Hitler will not forget their impressions for the rest of their lives; however, unlike Hitler, Goebbels' words and arguments were remembered longer." Many believed that as speaker Goebbels was superior to Hitler.

Goebbels was rewarded when Hitler came to power. After the next elections on March 5, 1933, in which the Nazis won 44 percent of the vote, and turned over public opinion after the Reichstag fire, he became the Imperial Minister of Public Education and Propaganda.

Goebbels made a decisive contribution to the lyhaischaltung (capture) of the media. This contribution is well documented and has attracted the attention of historians. At first, the new ministry had 350 employees, but by 1937 there were more than 1000. The ultimate goal was to control thoughts. Bombings of carefully selected propaganda were to affect the Germans externally and internally. Goebbels put a lot of effort into achieving this. He melted down various news outlets into a monopolistic German News Bureau, and changed the law, which required journalists to answer to the state for their publications. He himself regularly held press conferences, where he told reporters which line to stick to on individual events. It was he who launched the cheap Volksempfanger (People's Radio) radios, opening the doors of each house to propaganda. He was personally interested in making films, his film studios made 1,361 films in 1933-45. The more educated Goebbels was like in a straitjacket, from which he always wanted to escape. He also organized annual pro-Nazi festivals. He was the principal director of political theater. In addition, there were bright one-off actions, such as the burning of books at the University of Berlin in May 1933, "Jewish intellectuality is dead" - he insisted - "in the fire of fires burns the Old, the fire of our hearts will give rise to the New." He directed propaganda during the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936, after which he told the world that "Germany's victories are provided by the popular spirit created by the Nazi system" (Germany won the most medals). He also played a key role in the events of Crystal Night in November 1938, which he called "pleasant bloodletting."

What made Goebbels such a great propagandist? Perhaps the understanding that effective propaganda requires not so much blatant lies - although it has happened to feed the press just a fantastic lie - as a skillful filing of distorted truth. Perhaps knowledge of psychology. He knew that in addition to bread and spectacles, people still had to believe in something. The most effective speech in history, as he once said, was the Sermon of the Highlands: every propagandist should study it. "It doesn't matter what a person believes," he wrote in his unpublished novel, "the main thing is faith itself."

Goebbels' success is easily illustrated. Many foreigners (not fascists) who visited Germany shared the infectious feelings of mass gatherings, actually shouted Nazi slogans, to which Goebbels so well taught the Germans. An example is the English historian Patrick Walker. During a week-long visit to Germany during the Sudeette crisis, he felt the full power of Goebbels' propaganda machine. Cut off from English newspapers and radio, Walker tried to discount the famous exaggeration of Nazi propaganda. However, it was only on his return home to Oxford that he realized that he had unwittingly been held captive by false impressions. Then he realized the "power of propaganda in a closed system."

However, goebbels' system was not completely closed. There were still alternative sources of information. People's radio, for example, could be set up on waves of foreign stations, although the punishment for this was very severe. Many people had a habit of thinking critically. In addition, the total propagandist needs total power, which Goebbels did not have. Hitler's "divide and conquer" tactics extended even to this man, who helped him so well in the conquest of power. Goebbels' rivals were government spokesman Otto Dietrich and Nazi publisher Max Amann. Director Leni Riefenstahl didn't obey him either. In fact, Goebbels was more of an outpubry at Hitler's court, constantly hoarding enemies such as Goering, Himmler and Ribbentrop, not to mention small fish. Economist Yalmar Schacht said he would have beaten Goebbels many times "if he had not been crippled." Diplomat von Hassel echoed The Mine, calling Goebbels a "vile dog."

And Goebbels' home life was far from harmonious. In 1931, he married 29-year-old widow Magda Kwandt; and Hitler liked to flaunt this union as an example of an ideal, faithful and prolific pair. However, the authorities stirred up the praise and drove away all shame: Goebbels got the glory of miniature Casanova. "Every woman increases my pulse," he wrote, "I throw myself at everyone like a hungry wolf." Actress Jenny Yugo, who suffered from all, called him a "pig... cruel, evil little sadist ... a real snous rat." Magda was also not beyond suspicion: the German ambassador to Rome Bismarck spread gossip that she had many lovers - both men and women - and not all of her children from Goebbels. However, she hindered her husband's love affairs, as was the case with actress Lida Baarova (this novel was particularly discussed), and even tried to divorce him in 1938. For a while Goebbels was even out of the way with his Fuhrer. He began to work less and more to indulge in wasteful consumption - a whole fleet of limousines, a sports Mercedes, a boat and a yacht.

On Hitler's birthday, on Friday, April 20, 1945, Goebbels gave an impassioned speech: "The Fuhrer is in each of us, and each of us is in it" (Der F'hrer ist in uns und wir in ihm). For a long time he tried to surround Hitler with an aura of divinity. However, now from goebbels' words it seems that Hitler's kingdom was out of this world, and if some Germans were impressed and fanatically decided to continue the struggle, the other part - considered the speech "ridiculous". Goebbels' propaganda machine did not damage the ability of all Germans to think for themselves, because there was obvious evidence of Hitler's obvious mistakes in the air. But things could have gone very differently: if the war had turned out better or the Minister of Education had been brainwashing for longer. That's a terrible thought.

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