Hans-Ulrich Rudel | Timeline

Hans-Ulrich Rudel (2 July 1916 – 18 December 1982) was a German ground-attack pilot during World War II and a post-war neo-Nazi activist. The most decorated German pilot of the war and the only recipient of the Knight's Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds, Rudel was credited with the destruction of 519 tanks, one battleship, one cruiser, 70 landing craft and 150 artillery emplacements. He claimed nine aerial victories and the destruction of more than 800 vehicles. He flew 2,530 ground-attack missions exclusively on the Eastern Front, usually flying the Junkers Ju 87 "Stuka" dive bomber. (Intro from Wikipedia)

July 2, 1916 - Konradswaldau (Today Grzędy, SW Poland) - Hans-Ulrich Rudel is born
January(?) 1(?), 1922 - Lauban (Luban, SW corner of Poland) - Attends Elementary School (and later High School) in Lauban
January(?) 1(?), 1933 - Lauban(?) - Joins the Hitler Youth
August 1(?), 1936 - ? - Applies for an officer's career in the Luftwaffe after successfully passing the acceptance test
December 4, 1936 - Wildpark-Werder, near Berlin - Joins the Luftwaffe as a flag Cadet, completing his basic training at Air Warfare School 3
June 1(?), 1937 - Wildpark-Werder(?) - Rudel begins training to become an aircraft pilot
June 1, 1938 - Thalerhof, outside Graz, Austria - Rudel is promoted to Senior Ensign and transfered to I./Sturzkampfgeschwader 168 for dive bomber training =(START)
December 25, 1938 - Thalerhof - Receives his commission as Stuka pilot, and is chosen to attend Recon School
January 1, 1939 - Hildesheim (SE Hanover) - Begins training as an observer at the Hildesheim Reconnaissance School. Promoted to Lieutenant
June 1, 1939 - Prenzlau (SW Stettin) - Transfered to Fernauklärungsgruppe 121 (Long-distance reconnaissance squadron) as an observer
September 1, 1939 - Schneidemühl area (Piła, Poland) - Long-range reconnaisance missions
September 7, 1939 - Breslau (Wrocław, Poland) - Long-range reconnaisance missions
October 15, 1939 - Fritzlar (SW Kassel in Hesse) - Winter at Fritzlar. Missions to the west and northwest
November 10, 1939 - Fritzlar - Rudel receives the Iron Cross 2nd Class

May 1(?), 1940 - near Stuttgart - Training at the Sturzkampffliegerschule (Assault Pilot School)
September 15, 1940 - Crailsheim (SW Nuremberg) - Reassigned to dive bombing
October 1, 1940 - Caen, Normandy - Assigned to I./Sturzkampfgeschwader 3 (StG-3) during the end of the Battle of Britain
November 2, 1940 - Graz, Austria - Sent to Reserve Flight at Graz while his squadron is sent to the Balkans. Distinguishes himself in formation flying, bombing and gunnery

April 13(?), 1941 - Prabichl, NW of Kapfenberg and Leoben - Easter holidays skiing with friends in the vicinity of Prabichl

April 20(?), 1941 - Graz, Austria - Receives orders to report to 1./StG 2 in Greece
April 29(?), 1941 - Skopje, North Macedonia - Stop in Skopje on his way to Greece

April 30(?), 1941 - Argos, Greece - Rudel lands in Greece at Argos, but receives orders to fly to Molaoi in the Peloponnese
May 1, 1941 - Molaoi, Greece - 1./StG 2 moves out in preparaton for the invasion of Crete

May 22, 1941 - Argos, Greece - 1./StG 2 moves out
May 23, 1941 - Cottbus, Eastern Germany - Rudel flies a damaged Stuka from Argos to Cottbus for repair, via Sofia and Belgrade, while his squadron Moves out

June 16, 1941 - Intersburg (E. Königsberg) - 1./StG 2 moves out to East Prussia in preparation for Operation Barbarossa
June 22, 1941 - Raczki (NE corner of Poland) - Flies to Raczki to find his squadron
June 23, 1941 - Raczki - 1st combat missions (I./StG 2) over Grodno / Volkovysk (West Belarus)

June 28, 1941 - Nowogradek (Navahrudak, between Grodno and Minsk, Belarus) - 1./StG 2 moves out
July 15, 1941 - Lepiel (150km NE Minsk) - 1./StG 2 moves out. Rudel is awarded the Iron Cross 1st class
July 28, 1941 - Janavičy, E-NE Vitebsk - Receives the iron Cross 1st class and the Front flight clasp for battle pilots
August 29, 1941 - Tyrkowo, S Luga (Turovo, E. Luga, Russia) - Orders to move to Tyrkowo, South of Luga, north sector of the Front. (Rudel identifies the location as "Tyrkowo," south of Luga; however, the only town with a name resembling Tyrkowo is Turovo, just east of Luga).
September 16, 1941 - Tyrkowo - Mission to Kronstadt harbor, an island in the Gulf of Finland where the russian fleet was based. Rudel attacks the Soviet battleship "Marat" for the first time
September 21, 1941 - Tyrkowo - New 2,000-pound bombs arrive at Turovo

Marat blows up
(artist unknown)

September 23, 1941 - Tyrkowo - Rudel flies over Kronstadt harbor and attacks the Soviet Battleship "Marat" with another Stuka. Rudel hits the battleship and sinks it
October 1, 1941 - Kuleshovka, N. of Vyazma - 1./StG 2 moves out - Operations in the direction of Ostaschkov (NW of Rzhev and Tver)
October 20, 1941 - Staritza, between Rzhev and Tver(?) - Honor Goblet of the Luftwaffe as Oberleutnant in a Sturzkampfgeschwader
November 14, 1941 - Gorstowo, Between Mozhaysk and Ruza - 1./StG 2 moves out
December 8, 1941 - Gorstowo - Receives the German Cross in Gold
December 25, 1941 - Gorstowo - Christmas in Gorstowo
December 26, 1941 - Dugino, Between Rzhev and Vyazma - The Squadron moves out to the West because of soviet counterattacks
January 6, 1942 - Dugino - Receives the Knight's Cross as Oberleutnant and Staffelkapitän of the 9./Sturzkampfgeschwader 2
January(?) 20(?), 1942 - Riesengebirge Mountains (Germany, Poland, Czechia border) - Enjoying his leave skiing in the Riesengebirge (returns via Vitebsk, Minsk, Warsaw and Germany)
March 1(?), 1942 - Graz, Austria - Rudel returns to Graz as an instructor of a reserve flight, after getting married back in his home town
June 22, 1942 - Sarabus (Hvardiis'ke, N. of Simferopol, Crimea) - Returns to operations, close to Simferopol
July 20, 1942 - Cottbus, Eastern Germany - While the Squadron moves out to Tatsinskaya (N. of Rostov), Rudel flies a damaged stuka to Cottbus for repair
August 1, 1942 - Vyazma - 9./StG 2 moves out
October 1, 1942 - Stalino (Donetsk, Eastern Ukraine) - 9./StG 2 moves out to the Donbass
October 13, 1942 - Karpovka (Between Kalach and Stalingrad) - Appointed commander of 1./StG 2 - supporting the 6th Armee
November 15, 1942 - Rostov-on-Don, Russia - In Hospital. Treated for jaundice
November 21, 1942 - Karpovka - Returns to his squadron
December 22, 1942 - Morozovsk, NE of Shakhty and Rostov - Rudel's squadron moves to an airfield a little further to the West
December 25, 1942 - Morozovsk - Christmas at Morozovsk
January 1(?), 1943 - Tatsinskaya, NE of Shakhty | Voroshilovgrad (Luhansk, Eastern Ukraine) - Rudel's squadron at Tatsinskaya, before moving to Schachty (for sorties to the north, his squadron uses an airfield at Voroshilovgrad
February 10, 1943 - Tatsinkaya | Voroshilovgrad - 1st pilot in history to fly 1000 sorties, near izjum (Roven'ky - Horlivka)
February(?) 15(?), 1943 - Berlin - On leave
February(?) 16(?), 1943 - Rechlin, N. of Berlin - Instructed to proceed to Rechlin, where experiments with anti-tank weapons were being carried
February(?) 25(?), 1943 - St Anton am Arlberg, W. Austria - Skiing at St.Anton

Anti-tank Stuka

March 15, 1943 - Poltava, Ukraine - Returns to the front. Rudel switches to an anti-tank JU-
87G-2 Kanonenvogel, armed with two 37mm cannons
March 16, 1943 - over Belgorod region - 1st tank destroyed with 37mm rounds
April 1, 1943 - Kertsch, Eastern Crimea - The Squadron moves out
May 1, 1943 - Kharkov, Ukraine - The Squadron moves out
May 11, 1943 - Berlin - Flies to Berlin in a Messerchmitt Me109. Receives from Hitler the Oakleaves for his Knight's Cross as Oberleutnant and Staffelkapitän of the 1./Sturzkampfgeschwader 2 "Immelmann.
May 13, 1943 - Kertsch, Eastern Crimea - Back with his Wing at Kertsch
June 30(?), 1943 - Kuban Bridgehead - In the spring of 1943, Rudel sinks 70 Soviet landing craft with the Ju 87 G during the fighting for the Kuban bridgehead
July 4, 1943 - Melitopol, Southern Ukraine - Urgent orders to move out of Melitopol
July 5, 1943 - Kharkov - Rudel reaches Kharkov
July 6, 1943 - Belgorod - Moves out to Belgorod, to support the "Totenkopf" division during the Battle of Kursk
July 12, 1943 - Belgorod - Rudel claims 12 soviet tanks in one day
July 15(?), 1943 - Orel - Rudel's squadron moves to the other side of the bulge
July 18, 1943 - Orel - Given command of the III./StG 2 "Immelmann" after Hauptmann Walter Krauß is killed
July 31, 1943 - Karachev, Between Bryansk and Orel -  III./StG 2 moves out to Karachev
September 1, 1943 - Pervomais'k, S. of Kharkov -  III./StG 2 moves out
October 1, 1943 - Novokrasne, W. of Kirovograd (Kropyvnytskyi) -  III./StG 2 moves out
October 30, 1943 - Kostromka, NW of Kherson - 100th tank kill
November 25, 1943 - Wolfschanze, Rastenburg - Receives from Hitler the Swords for his Knight's Cross with Oakleaves as Hauptmann and Gruppenkommandeur of the III./Sturzkampfgeschwader 2 "Immelmann", at the same time that fighter ace Dietrich Hrabak is also decorated
December 24, 1943 - Kirovograd (Kropyvnytskyi), Ukraine - Returns to his wing, via Vienna, Kraków, Lemberg, Vinnitsa
January 5, 1944 - Kirovograd - Distinguishes himself again during the Battle of Kirovograd (January 5th - 16th)

Rudel and Hentschel

January 11, 1944 - Kirovograd - 150th tank kill
March 1, 1944 - Pervomais'k, SE of Kirovograd (Kropyvnytskyi) - Rudel reaches the 1,800th mission - 202 tanks destroyed in total
March 13, 1944 - Pervomais'k - Evades aerial combat with soviet ace Lev Shestakov, who crashes
March 14, 1944 - Nikolayev (Mykolaiv, Ukraine) -  III./StG 2 moves out
March 20, 1944 - Raukhivka, N. of Odessa -  III./StG 2 moves out. During the mission targeting the Yampol Bridge, Rudel and his gunner Erwin Hentschel completed their 1,400th mission. Rudel skillfully landed their aircraft behind enemy lines to rescue downed comrades. Tragically, during an unsuccessful attempt to save a seventh comrade, Hentschel drowned in the icy waters of the Dniester River as they fled from pursuing Soviet soldiers.
March 25, 1944 - Iasi (Romania-Moldova border) -  III./StG 2 moves out
March 27, 1944 - Iasi - Rudel destroys 17 tanks in a single day
March 29, 1944 - Iasi - Awarded the Diamonds for his Knight's Cross with Oakleaves and Swords as Major and Gruppenkommandeur of the III./Schlachtgeschwader 2 "Immelmann"
April 2, 1944 - Berchstesgaden - Hitler's Eagle's Nest - Enjoys two days in the Berghof and receives the award from Hitler
April 5, 1944 - Götlitz (Germany-Poland border) - Returns to Görlitz, where the townspeople give a reception in his honor
April 10, 1944 - Husi (Romania-Moldova border) - Returns to the front (while Barkhorn's JG52 is at the same airfield)
May 31, 1944 - over Husi - Rudel is escorted on a mission by history's two greatest fighter aces, Erich Hartmann and Gerhard Barkhorn. During the mission, Barkhorn is shot down and wounded.
June 3, 1944 - Husi - Rudel's 2000th mission. Awarded the Front flight clasp for battle pilots in gold with Diamonds and a pendant with the number 2000
June 6(?), 1944 - Near the Berghof - Receives the award from Göring. Short stay at Görlitz
July 13, 1944 - Zamosc, SE Poland - III./StG 2 receives orders to move to central sector
July 22, 1944 - Mielec, NW of Kraków - III./StG 2 moves again as the soviets approach
July 28, 1944 - Insterburg (E Konigsberg) (today Chernyakhovsk) - Orders to move to East Prussia
August 1, 1944 - Wenden (Cēsis), NE of Riga, Latvia - III./StG 2 moves out to Wenden, Latvia
August 6, 1944 - Wenden - 11 Tanks destroyed in a day - 320 in total
August 19, 1944 - Ērgļi, Kurland (Latvia) - Shot down by flak but is able to make an emergency landing near the front German lines
August 30(?), 1944 - Buzau, near Ploiesti, Romania - III./StG 2 receives alarming reports that the soviets are driving into Romania and is transfered overnight to Buzau  (from Latvia), via East Prussia, Kraków and Debrecen
September 1, 1944 - Buzau - Promoted to Oberstleutnant
September 12, 1944 - Tasnad, NW Romania -  III./StG 2 moves out
September 16, 1944 - Zalau, NW Romania -  III./StG 2 moves out
October 1, 1944 - Ferihery, SE Budapest - III./StG 2 moves out to Budapest. Rudel is appointed leader of SG 2
November 15, 1944 - Várpalota, W. of Székesfehérvár - SG 2 moves out
November 17, 1944 - Héviz, W. Lake Balaton, Hungary - Rudel is wounded in the thigh by ground fire and has to make an emergency landing at the fighter airfield in Budapest. He is taken by a Fieseler Storch to a sanatorium in Héviz, Lake Balaton, where two bullet wounds are treated. Rudel ignores the doctor's instructions and leaves the hospital without permission.
December 1, 1944 - Veces, Budapest - Rudel returns to his squadron a short time later with a plaster cast
December 22, 1944 - Várpalota, W. of Székesfehérvár - Back at Várpalota. Rudel completes his 2,400th combat mission. 463 tank kills
December 25, 1944 - Kemenesszentpéter, NW of Pápa, Hungary - Christmas at Kemenesszentpéter
December 30, 1944 - Kemenesszentpéter - Orders arrive to report to Reichmarshall Göring
December 31, 1944 - Vienna | Berlin - Visiting friends in Vienna on his way to Berlin
January 1, 1945 - Frankfurt - Reaches Frankfurt in the Reichmarshall's train. He is surprised to see many Me109 and Fw190s flying westward (Opeation Bodenplatte)
January 2, 1945 - Führer's HQ, Adlerhorst, Langenhain-Ziegenberg - Meets Hitler, Göring, Dönitz, Keitel and Jodl at the Führer's west HQ. Hitler Receives from Hitle the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with golden Oak leaves, Swords and Diamonds as Oberstleutnant and Geschwaderkommodore of Schlachtgeschwader 2 "Immelmann", in presence of Göring and Dönitz. Hitler orders him to stop flying, but Rudel convinces him to continue
January 4(?), 1945 - Görlitz | Budapest - Flies to Görlitz to see his family and continues to Budapest on the same day
January 14, 1945 - S. of Sopron, Hungary - Rudel is awarded the Gold Medal for Bravery (Highest hungarian bravery award) by State leader Ferenc Szálasi
January 15, 1945 - Udetfeld, N. of Katowice - Orders to move SG 2 to Upper Silesia
January 18, 1945 - Grottkau (Grodków, Poland) - Rudel reaches 481 tank kills
January 28, 1945 - Märkisch Friedland (Mirosławiec, E.of Stettin) | Ordensburg Krössinsee - Orders to move the Wing to Märkisch Friedland (other squadrons to Frankfurt). Meeting with Heinrich Himmler at the Ordensburg Krössinsee
February 9, 1945 - Fürstenwalde, E. of Berlin - Rudel and Gadermann are hit by a 40mm shell and crash over Frankfurt am der Oder. Rudel was badly wounded in the right foot, and landed inside German lines as his radio operator shouted flight instructions
February 10, 1945 - Berlin - Rudel is taken to the Zoo Flak Tower, where his leg is amputated below the knee. He begins his convalescence there, receiving visits from Goebbels and Otto Skorzeny, among others
March 25, 1945 - Grossenhain, N. of Dresden - Returns to operations - 493 tanks destroyed total
April(?) 1(?), 1945 - Kummer (Hradčany), SW of Liberec, Czechia - SG 2 moves to Kummer
April 19, 1945 - Berlin - Rudel meets with Hitler in the Führerbunker at the Reich Chancellery in Berlin
April 24, 1945 - Kummer (Hradčany) - Destroys his 26th tank since after returning to combat (519 tank kills in total)
April 27, 1945 - Rechlin, N. of Berlin - Due to the impossibility of landing in Berlin, Rudel lands at Rechlin at night in a He 111 bomber
May 1(?), 1945 - Hermannstädtel (Heřmanův Městec, CZE) - Flies to Air Command HQ
May 7, 1945 - Grossenhain, N. of Dresden - Last mission of the War
May 8, 1945 - Kitzingen, NW of Nuremberg - Surrenders to US forces after 2 hour flight westward (519 destroyed tanks in total)
June(?) 15(?), 1945 - RAF Tangmere - Two weeks at Tangmere answering questions, with Günther Rall
April 1(?), 1946 - Kitzingen - Released from captivity
May(?) 20(?), 1948 - Swiss Alps - Emigration route to Argentina without being detected by former allies
June(?) 1(?), 1948 - Rome - Emigration route to Argentina without being detected by former allies
June(?) 2(?), 1948 - Madrid - Emigration route to Argentina without being detected by former allies
June(?) 3(?), 1948 - Lisbon, Portugal - Emigration route to Argentina without being detected by former allies
June(?) 4(?), 1948 - Casablanca - Emigration route to Argentina without being detected by former allies
June(?) 5(?), 1948 - Cape Verde(?) - Emigration route to Argentina without being detected by former allies
June(?) 6(?), 1948 - Natal, Brazil - Emigration route to Argentina without being detected by former allies
June(?) 7(?), 1948 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Emigration route to Argentina without being detected by former allies
June 8, 1948 - Buenos Aires, Argentina - Rudel arrives in Buenos Aires
November 1, 1949 - Buenos Aires - Publishes a war diary titled "Trotzdem"
December 30(?), 1951 - Llullaillaco Mountain, Andes, Argentina - Rudel climbs the Llullaillaco (6,739m)
February 27(?), 1953 - Llullaillaco Mountain - Rudel climbs the Llullaillaco again
August 28, 1953 - Bielefeld, Germany - Election campaign speech at a meeting of the Deutsche Reichspartei (DRP) in Bielefeld
August 30, 1953 - Lüneburg, Germany - Attends an election meeting of the Neo-Nazi SRP (Socialist Reich Party)
September 2, 1953 - Bayreuth - Rudel is a candidate in the elections for the Deutschen Reichspartei. Attends a meeting of the DRP in the Rotmain Hall, Bayreuth
June 1(?), 1954 - Buenos Aires, Argentina(?) - Rudel is denied a visa for Germany because he is Persona non Grata for Bonn
September 1(?), 1955 - Paraguay - After Juan Perón's fall, Rudel moves to Paraguay, where he acts as a foreign representative for several German companies.
January(?) 1(?), 1957 - Santiago, Chile - Rudel and Dr. Josef Mengele together travel to Chile to spend a week with Walter Rauff, the inventor of the mobile gas chamber
May 14, 1957 - Munich, Germany - Attends the Roehm Trial and cumpliments the defendants Josef "Sepp" Dietrich and Michael Lippert
June 8, 1958 - Malmö, Sweden - Visits the german football team in Sweden during the 1958 FIFA World Cup
January 1(?), 1960 - Saarbrücken, Germany - DRP (Deutsche Reichspartei) reunion
May 30, 1960 - Neunkirchen, Vienna - Meeting of comrades with Herbert Jaschke
September 1(?), 1968 - Munich - Meets Savitri Devi and Oswald Moskey in Munich
April 26, 1970 - Argentina(?) - Survives a stroke
March 1, 1973 - Madrid, Spain - Visit to Juan Perón
August(?) 1(?), 1973 - Colonia dignidad, 35 km east of Parral, Chile - Moves to Chile after the Pinochet Coup

Knight's Cross with Golden Oakleaves
Swords and Diamonds

January(?), 1(?), 1974 - São Paulo, Brazil - Living in São Paulo, Brazil, during 1974
October 1(?), 1976 - Bremgarten Air Base, SW Freiburg, Germany - Rudel Scandal - During a meeting of former members of the Luftwaffe's Squadron 2 "Immelmann", High-ranking Bundeswehr officers Walter Krupinski and Karl-Heinz Franke compared Rudel's nazi past with the KPD past of the Social Democrat Herbert Wehner
October 15, 1976 - Washington D.C., United States - Attends a two-day conference with various members of the US military and defense industry as part of the development of the A-10 Thunderbolt II
January(?) 1(?), 1977 - Germany - Becomes a spokeman for the Deutsche Volksunion (German People's Union), a nationalist political party
June(?) 1(?), 1978 - Ascochinga, Argentina - Rudel visits the German National Football team at the World Cup training camp in Argentina
January(?) 1(?), 1979 - Rosenheim, Bavaria(?) - Rudel returns to Germany

December 18, 1982 - Rosenheim, Bavaria - Hans-Ulrich Rudel dies following another stroke, aged 66 =(END)

Joseph Goebbels | Timeline

Paul Joseph Goebbels (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician who was the Gauleiter (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler's closest and most devoted acolytes, known for his skills in public speaking and his deeply virulent antisemitism, which was evident in his publicly voiced views. He advocated progressively harsher discrimination, including the extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust. (Intro from Wikipedia)

October 29, 1897 - Rheydt, Prussia - Paul Joseph Goebbels is born

January(?) 1(?), 1907 - Rheydt - Begins elementary education

January(?) 1(?), 1907 - Rheyt - Diagnosed with infantile paralysis of the right foot, he is unsucessfully operated. After the surgery, he begins walking with a noticeable limp

December 1(?), 1915 - Rheydt - His sister Elisabeth dies of tuberculosis

March 1(?), 1917 - Rheydt - Takes his "Abitur" (Baccaulaureate) examination. As the top student in his class he gives a speech at the award ceremony: "The land of poets and thinkers must now prove that it is more than that, that it has a valid claim to lead the world politically and intellectually"

April 1(?), 1917 - Bonn - Goebbels sets off to study at the University of Bonn

October 1(?), 1917 - Bonn - Begins his second semester in Bonn after a trip back to Rheydt to get some financial help

April(?) 1(?), 1918 - Freiburg - Begins his third semester in Freiburg

May 1(?), 1918 - Freiburg - Begins a relationship with Anka Stalherm

November 11, 1918 - Würzburg - In Würzburg during the Armistice of 1918

January 1(?), 1919 - Rheydt - Returns to Rheydt (from Würzburg), via Cologne

December 24, 1919 - Munich - Christmas Eve in Munich

Goebbels, 1921

November 1(?), 1921 - Heidelberg - Obtains a Doctor of Philosophy degree from theUniversity of Heidelberg

October 1(?), 1922 - Rheydt - Allowed to give a talk on German literature at a technical school in Rheydt

January 2, 1923 - Cologne - Goebbels takes a job at the Dresdner Bank in Cologne

August 1(?), 1923 - Baltrum Island, North Sea - Goes with his new girlfriend Else Janke to Baltrum Island

August 15(?), 1923 - Rheydt - Returns to Rheydt after being dismissed from the bank

August 17, 1923 - Rheydt - Begins writing his famous diary

October 21, 1923 - Rheydt - Separatist groups who enjoyed the support of the French and Belgian occupying powers stage a coup in Rheydt, aimed at bringing about an independent Rhenish state

March 13, 1924 - Rheydt - Diary: “I am thinking about Hitler and the National Socialist movement and will obviously have to go on doing so for some time. Socialism and Christ. Ethical foundations. Away from paralyzing materialism. Back to devotion and to God!"

April 4, 1924 - Rheydt - Diary: "We have founded a local National Socialist group" =(START)

April 28, 1924 - Rheydt - The group organizes a big election meeting

June 30(?), 1924 - Elberfeld - Attends a political conference in Elberfeld

August 17, 1924 - Weimar - Attends a 2-day conference of German-völkisch supporters and National Socialists

August 21, 1924 - Mönchengladbach - Goebbels and Fritz Prang found a local group of the National Socialist Freedom Movement of Greater Germany in Mönchengladbach

September 3, 1924 - Wickrath - Speech in Wickrath

September 10, 1924 - Mönchengladbach - Speech in Mönchengladbach

September 17, 1924 - Wickrath - Speech in Wickrath

September 23, 1924 - Elberfeld - Takes part in a commemoration of the battle of Tannenberg in Elberfeld. Speaks for the first time with Ludendorff and Röhm

September 25, 1924 - Rheydt - Speech in Rheydt

September 27, 1924 - Neuss - Speech in Neuss

October 22, 1924 - Rheydt - The belgian occupation authorities carry out a search of Goebbels house in Rheydt

October 23, 1924 - Rheydt - Goebbels is interrogated by the criminal police. On the same day, he decides to leave for Elberfeld

November 1(?), 1924 - Berlin - Trip to Berlin

December 25, 1924 - Rheydt - Christmas in Rheydt

July 12, 1925 - Weimar - Gau leaders' conference in Weimar. Goebbels meets Adolf Hitler

July 13, 1925 - Elberfeld - Returns to Elberfeld. Diary: "I’m a different person. Now I know that the man who leads was born to be a leader. I’m ready to sacrifice everything for him (Hitler)"

August 20, 1925 - Elberfeld - Meeting with Gregor Strasser

September 10, 1925 - Hagen - NSDAP meeting in Hagen. Goebbels becomes the business manager of the Party in northern and western Germany aswell as editor of the information publication "Nationalsozialistische Briefe" (National Socialist Correspondence)

October 12, 1925 - Elberfeld - Diary: "Hitler doesn’t trust me. He has complained about me. How that hurts"

November 1(?), 1925 - Elberfeld - Publishes the article "National Socialism or Bolshevism" in the "Völkischer Beobachter"

November 17, 1925 - Chemnitz - Speech "Lenin or Hitler?"

November 19, 1925 - Landshut - Goebbels meets Heinrich Himmler

November 20, 1925 - Plauen - Hitler and Goebbels meet again at an event in Plauen where both were speaking. "He greets me like an old friend. And treats me with solicitude. How I love him! What a fellow!”

December 25, 1925 - Rheydt(?) - At Christmas, Hitler sends Goebbels a leather-bound copy of "Mein Kampf", complete with a personal dedication in which he praised Goebbels's work as exemplary

January 15, 1926 - Elberfeld - Publishes the article "Orientation: West or East" in the "Nationalsozialistische Briefe"

February 14, 1926 - Bamberg, Upper Franconia - Bamberg Conference (Hitler wanted to pressure the dissident northern faction to accept the leadership of Munich). "One of the greatest disappointments of my life. I no longer totally believe in Hitler. That’s the terrible thing: I’ve lost my inner conviction. I’m now just half the man I was"

February 15, 1926  - Munich - Visit to the NSDAP headquarters. Conversation with Hitler

February 19, 1926 - Königsberg - Speech "Lenin or Hitler?"

April 8, 1926 - Munich, Germany - Hitler embraces Goebbels "with tears in his eyes" after a wildly successful speech at the Burgerbraukeller

April 9, 1926 - Munich - Diary: "Unity (of the Party) follows. Hitler is great"

April 13, 1926 - Landshut - With Himmler during a speaking tour

May 22, 1926 - Munich - Takes part in the general meeting of NSDAP members in Munich

July 3, 1926 - Weimar - 2nd NSDAP congress (2 days)

July 4, 1926 - Weimar - The "Jugendbund der NSDAP" is renamed "Hitlerjugend" (Hitler Youth)

July 20, 1926 - Elberfeld - Meeting with Hitler and Kaufmann. Hitler appoints Kaufmann Gauleiter (Party Organizer) for North and West Germany

August 30(?), 1926 - While in Elberfeld - Hitler recognizes Goebbels's talents and flatters him into accepting the position of Gauleiter (Party Organizer) for the Berlin section

September 15(?), 1926 - Berlin - Travels to Berlin

October 26, 1926 - Elberfeld - Goebbels accepts the position of Gauleiter (Party Organizer) of Berlin

October 30, 1926 - Zwickau - With Himmler at Zwickau

November 9, 1926 - Berlin - Goebbels leaves Elberfeld for Berlin. Speech at arrival

December 17, 1926 - Berlin - Speech at the Veteran's Association in Berlin

February 23, 1927 - Munich - Goebbels visits Hitler: "I’m terrifically pleased to see him again. He is so good to me. A true Führer and friend!"

March 20, 1927 - Trebbin, near Berlin - Speech in Trebbin

May 4, 1927 - Berlin - Speech at the Veteran's Association House. At the end, the police search all people present

May 5, 1927 - Berlin - The Berlin police bans the Nazi Party from the city and Goebbels is subjected to a public speaking ban until the end of October

June 10, 1927 - Berlin - Berlin NSDAP rally

July 3, 1927 - Dessendorf, Sudetenland (Desna, near Jablobec) - Speech at a NSDAP rally

July 4, 1927 - Berlin - First publication of Goebbels' newspaper "Der Angriff"

November 8, 1927 - Neukölln - Speech in Neukölln

February 1(?), 1928 - Berlin - Begins an affair with russian émigrée Tamara von Heede

April 14, 1928 - Berlin - The Party is officially re-founded in a solemn ceremony held at the Veteran Soldiers' House

May 13, 1928 - Wilmersdorf - Organizes an SA march in Wilmersdorf

May 17, 1928 - Spandau - Organizes an SA march in Spandau

May 20, 1928 - Berlin - The Nazis score just 2,6% in the May 1928 Reichstag elections. Goebbels is elected to the Reichstag

July 23, 1928 - Borkum Island (near the Netherlands) - Goebbels goes alone to Borkum Island to recuperate (until August 4th)

August 4, 1928 - Berlin - Returns to Berlin, where problems with the SA begin

August 12, 1928 - Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria - Trip to Garmisch-Partenkirchen to revise his "Michael" manuscript of 1924

August 20, 1928 - Berlin - Returns to Berlin

August 30(?), 1928 - Munich - Meeting of the NSDAP elite in Munich

September 30(?), 1928 - Teltow, near Berlin - The NSDAP holds its "Third Brandenburg Day". March to Berlin

September 7, 1929 - Schöneberg | Wilmersdorf - March through Schöneberg and Wilmersdorf

September 15, 1929 - Charlottenburg - Propaganda march through Charlottenburg

September 22, 1929 - Neukölln - SA march in Neukölln. Goebbels is attacked while inspecting the marchers

September 26, 1929 - Neukölln - Speech in Neukölln: "We are fighting against men, yes, but in them we are fighting the system. We don’t speak like the bourgeois parties of the corruption in Berlin or the Bolshevism of Berlin City Hall"

November 7, 1929 - Berlin - Receives the news of his father's death

November 8, 1929 - Berlin - Speech at the Veteran Soldiers' House for the Berlin Gau in commemoration of the Great War fallen soldiers

November 11, 1929 - Rheydt - Spends two days in Rheydt after his father's funeral

December 18, 1929 - Berlin - Memorial gathering for SA man Walter Fischer

December 29, 1929 - Berlin - Publishes the article "Is Hindenburg still alive?" in "Der Angriff"

February 21, 1930 - Nuremberg - Meets Hitler in Nuremberg

February 23, 1930 - Berlin - Horst Wessel, SA troop leader and author of the hymn "Die Fahne Hoch" is murdered by two communists. Goebbels decides to make him the martyr figure of National-Socialism

March 13, 1930 - Berlin - Speech at the Veteran Soldiers' House against Hindenburg

April 18, 1930 - Sweden - 6-day vacation in Sweden with Göring

April 26, 1930 - Munich - NSDAP leaders' conference in Munich (2 days). Goebbels is appointed head of propaganda in Munich

May 2, 1930 - Berlin - Hitler visits Berlin

July 18, 1930 - Munich - After Hindenburg dissolves the Parliament, Göring and Goebbels leave the Reichstag unhindered and take the night train to Munich

August 12, 1930 - Hanover - Appears in court in Hanover to answer a charge of slandering the Prussian prime minister, Otto Braun

August 28, 1930 - Berlin - Back in Berlin

August 30, 1930 - Berlin - Meeting with Hitler and Göring after a short trip to Breslau

September 14, 1930 - Berlin - The nazis win 18% of the votes in the September 1930 Reichtag elections

September 25, 1930 - Leipzig - Göring and Goebbels go to Leipzig to appear as witnesses in the Leipzig Treason Trial

November 7, 1930 - Berlin - Diary: "A lovely woman called Magda Quandt is reorganizing my private papers"

February 21, 1931 - Weimar - Trip to Weimar with Magda Quandt

March 13, 1931 - Berlin - Diary: "someone tried to kill me with a bomb"

March 18, 1931 - Berlin - The police imposes a public speaking ban on Goebbels

March 20, 1931 - Königsberg - The police prohibits Goebbels from speaking in Königsberg

March 31, 1931 - Weimar - Goebbels meets Hitler in Weimar

April 5, 1931 - Munich - Easter with Hitler in Munich

April 8, 1931 - Berlin - Back in Berlin

June 9, 1931 - Munich - Goebbels and Göring participate in a NSDAP leadership conference in Munich

July 6, 1931 - St.Peter-Ording - Stays with Magda at the seaside resort of St.Peter-Ording (Until August 5th)

August 25, 1931 - Berlin - Hitler takes an interest in Magda Quandt and visits her while Goebbels was away at a memorial ceremony

October 10, 1931 - Berlin | Bad Harzburg - Hitler drives to Bad Harzburg with Goebbels and Göring

October 18, 1931 - Braunschweig - Drives to Braunschweig with Magda Quandt, where a National-socialist march was planned

November 1, 1931 - Munich - Hitler convinces Goebbels and Magda Quandt to travel with him to Munich, via Weimar

Wedding day - Magda, Goebbels
and Magda's 10-year-old son Harold

December 19, 1931 - Severin, Mecklenburg - Joseph Goebbels marries Magda Quandt

January 18, 1932 - Munich - Meeting with Hitler

February 15, 1932 - Berlin - Diary: "Magda Quandt comes in the evening. And stays for a very long time. And blossoms into an enchanting blond sweetness. You really are my queen"

February 23, 1932 - Berlin - Speech in the Reichstag

March 1, 1932 - Berlin - Departs for a speaking tour in Madgeburg, Essen, Düsseldorf and Cologne

March 27, 1932 - Munich | Obersalzberg - Hitler and Goebbels leave Munich for the Easter break at Obersalzberg

March 31, 1932 - Berlin - Returns to Berlin

April 4, 1932 - Lustgarten, Berlin - Hitler's speech at Lustgarten, Berlin, with Goebbels by his side

May 5, 1932 - Berchtesgaden - Goebbels and Magda visit Hitler in Berchtesgaden

May 7, 1932 - Berlin - Back in Berlin

July 31, 1932 - Munich - The nazis win 37% of the votes in the July 1932 Reichtag elections

August 6, 1932 - Berchtesgaden - Meeting with Hitler

August 22, 1932 - Berlin - Returns from vacations on the Baltic

August 25, 1932 - Berchtesgaden - Meeting with Hitler

August 30, 1932 - Berlin - Attends the inaugural session of the Reichstag

August 31, 1932 - Berlin - Party at Göring's house with presence of Hitler, Goebbels and Röhm

September 1, 1932 - Berlin - Daughter Helga is born

November 30, 1932 - Weimar - Goebbels meets Hitler in Weimar

January 24, 1933 - Munich - Meeting with Hitler in Munich

January 30, 1933 - Berlin - President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler, "Führer" of the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP), Chancellor of Germany

March 14, 1933 - Berlin - Appointed Reichsminister of Public Enlightment and Propaganda

March 26, 1933 - Berchtesgaden - Visits Hitler in Berchtesgaden

April 19, 1933 - Berlin - Back in Berlin

May 1, 1933 - Lustgarten, Berlin - Conversation with Hindenburg

Goebbels, May 10, 1933
National Archives and Records Administration,
College Park, MD

May 10, 1933 - Berlin - Public book burning on the Opernplatz in Berlin

May 18, 1933 - Wilmersdorf - Speech to members of the film industry

May 28, 1933 - Brenner Pass | Bologna, Italy - Departs for Italy, crossing the Brenner Pass by train and reaching Bologna

May 29, 1933 - Rome, Italy - Arrives in Rome

July 19, 1933 - Bayreuth - Hitler and Goebbels attend the Bayreuth Festival

August 6, 1933 - Obersalzberg - Attends Hitler's speech on the autobahn construction and the establishment of a Senate

August 20, 1933 - While in Berlin - Magda Goebbels meets Hitler in Munich and both go to Berchtesgaden

August 22, 1933 - Berchtesgaden - Goebbels arrives in Berchtesgaden. Meeting with Hitler and Göring

August 25, 1933 - Munich | Berlin - Hitler and Goebbels travel to Berlin via Munich

August 30, 1933 - Nuremberg - 5th NSDAP congress, the "Rally of Victory". Leni Riefenstahl's film "Der Sieg des Glaubens" is made at this rally

September 24, 1933 - Geneva, Switzerland - Goebbels arrives in Geneva for the annual assembly of the League of Nations

October 11, 1933 - Berlin - Meeting with Hitler about the disarmament question

October 15, 1933 - Munich - Attends the Festival of German Art

October 16, 1933 - Mount Himmerich, near Bonn - Travels to Mount Himmerich in the Siebengebirge mountains near Bonn, where a monument was to be erected to celebrate the defeat of Rhineland separatism

November 10, 1933 - Berlin - Speech for the workers of the Siemens factory

December 25, 1933 - Rheydt - Christmas with his family in Rheydt

April 13, 1934 - Berlin - Second daughter, Hilde, is born

May 1(?), 1934 - Zweibrucken - Speech at Zweibrucken on the Saar question

June 30, 1934 - Munich | Bad Wiessee | Berlin - "Night of the Long Knives" - Hitler and his entourage fly to Munich. Then take care to Bad Wiessee and personally puts Röhm and other SA leaders under arrest. Goebbels flies to Berlin and telephones Göring with the codeword "kolibri" to let loose the execution squads on the rest of their unsuspecting victims

July 2, 1934 - Berlin - Goebbels tries to prevent newspapers from publishing lists of the dead, but at the same time uses a radio address to describe how Hitler narrowly prevented Röhm and Schleicher from overthrowing the Government and throwing the country into turmoil

July 15, 1934 - Heiligendamm - Hitler, Joseph and Magda Goebbels go to Heiligendamm

July 22, 1934 - Bayreuth - Attends the Bayreuth Festival

August 2, 1934 - Berlin - President Paul Hindenburg dies. Hitler proposes a referendum in order to confirm his succession

August 25, 1934 - Berlin - Speech in Berlin

August 26, 1934 - Cologne - Hitler and Goebbels open a Saarland exhibition in Cologne

August 29, 1934 - Obersalzberg - Hitler and Goebbels arrive in Obersalzberg for a few days stay

September 4, 1934 - Nuremberg - Goebbels arrives in Nuremberg for the 6th NSDAP congress and rally

September 5, 1934 - Nuremberg - 6th NSDAP congress and rally (5 days), attended by 700,000 nazi supporters. Leni Riefenstahl's film "Triumph des Willens" was made at this rally

October 25, 1934 - Munich - Gauleiter conference in Munich

March 28, 1935 - Berlin - Hitler and Goebbels attend the premiere of Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will"

June 5, 1935 - Heiligendamm - Vacations in Heiligendamm

September 10, 1935 - Nuremberg - 7th NSDAP congress and rally (6 days). Leni Riefenstahl's film "Tag der Freiheit: Unsere Wehrmacht" is made at this rally

September 15, 1935 - Berlin - Approval of the "Nuremberg Laws" - The laws banned sexual relations and marriages between Aryans and Jews and were later extended to include "Gypsies, Negroes or their bastard offspring". The laws stripped all non-Aryans of their German citizenship

October 2, 1935 - Berlin - First son, Helmut, is born

February 6, 1936 - Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria - Opening Ceremony of the 1936 Winter Olympics

February 8, 1936 - Munich - The Goebbels move to Munich

February 11, 1936 - Schwerin - Hitler and Goebbels attend the funeral of Wilhelm Gustloff, leader of the Swiss NSDAP (who had been assassinated by a jewish student). Hitler gives a "radical, trenchant speech against the jews"

February 15, 1936 - Berlin - Hitler and Goebbels open the International Automobile Exhibition in Berlin

February 17, 1936 - Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Hitler and Goebbels attend the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games

March 2, 1936 - Berlin - Hitler summons Goebbels, Göring, Ribbentrop and Erich Raeder among others to the Reich Chancellery to inform them that he would announce the remilitarization of the Rhineland

June 1(?), 1936 - Berlin - Accompanied by Goebbels, Leni Riefensfahl receives the Italian Award for Best Film for "Triumph des Willes"

June 2, 1936 - Schwanenwerder Island, SW Berlin - Goebbels meets czech actress Lida Baarová

July 19, 1936 - Bayreuth - Goebbels goes to Bayreuth for the Wagner Festival (9 days)

July 29, 1936 - Berlin - Goebbels returns from Bayreuth to attend the Olympic Games

August 15, 1936 - Berlin - Hitler has a conversation with Magda Goebbels about her husband's affair with czech actress Lída Baarová

August 16, 1936 - Berlin - Closing ceremony of the Olympic Games. Hitler rebukes Goebbels, stating that in view of his "perfect marriage" as well as the upcoming Sudeten annexation, his affair with a Czech actress was an impossibility. Baarová is told that she had to end her relationship with Goebbels immediately and is forbidden to perform on Hitler's direct orders.

August 30, 1936 - Venice, Italy - Spends 3 days at the Venice Biennale with Magda Goebbels

September 8, 1936 - Nuremberg - 8th NSDAP congress (6 days)

September 10, 1936 - Nuremberg - Speech "Bolshevism, the World enemy"

September 22, 1936 - Athens, Greece - Goebbels flies to Athens, Greece

September 29, 1936 - Berlin - Returns from Greece

Magda, Hitler and Goebbels
(Independent.co.uk)

January 5, 1937 - Berchtesgaden - The Goebbelses join Hitler in Berchtesgaden

January 9, 1937 - Berlin - Returns to Berlin

February 19, 1937 - Berlin - His fourth child, a daughter, is born

May 28, 1937 - Berlin - Speech "the sex offenders and those behind them"

June 6, 1937 - Regensburg - Unveiling of the bust for the 'German naturalized' Austrian composer Anton Bruckner in the Walhalla in Regensburg

July 3, 1937 - Heiligendamm - Vacations in Heiligendamm

July 9, 1937 - Obersalzberg - The Goebbels family joins Hitler on the Obersalzberg

July 16, 1937 - Munich - Hitler and Goebbels visit the "Exhibition of Degenerate Art"

August 2, 1937 - Breslau - Hitler and Goebbels attend a choral festival in Breslau with a public of 30,000 people

September 6, 1937 - Nuremberg - 9th NSDAP congress (7 days)

November 26, 1937 - Berlin - Visit to Leni Riefenstahl while she was preparing her Olympic Games film

March 30(?), 1938 - Vienna, Austria - Goebbels arrives in Vienna

April 11, 1938 - Vienna | Berlin - Hitler and Goebbels take the train to Berlin. Diary: "The Führer wants to force [the jews] all out of Germany. To Madagascar or somewhere. Quite right!”

April 20, 1938 - Berlin - Attends the premiere of Leni Riefenstahl's film "Olympia" and is photographed with his mistress, Lida Baarová

May 3, 1938 - Roma-Ostiense station - Hitler, Himmler and Goebbels travel to Rome and meet King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy at Roma-Ostiense station

May 6, 1938 - Rome, Italy - Hitler, Himmler and Goebbels meet Mussolini and Galeazzo Ciano at the Villa Borghese

May 10, 1938 - Berlin - Hitler, Himmler and Goebbels return to Berlin

May 28, 1938 - Berlin - Gives a talk at the opening of the "Degenerate Music" exhibition (with composer Richard Strauss)

August 6, 1938 - Berlin - Annual Radio Exhibition in Berlin. Goebbels tries one of the new "People's radio sets"

September 5, 1938 - Nuremberg - 10th NSDAP congress (7 days)

September 17, 1938 - Obersalzberg - Meets Hitler in Obersalzberg

September 22, 1938 - Bad Godesberg, Rhine - Neville Chamberlain flies to meet Hitler again - Hitler demands immediate cession of the Sudetenland

September 24, 1938 - Berlin - Hitler and Goebbels return to Berlin

October 22, 1938 - Schorfheide - Göring receives Goebbels at his house in Schorfheide

October 23, 1938 - Obersalzberg - Goebbels joins Hitler on the Obersalzberg

November 10, 1938 - Munich - Joins Hitler in Munich

December 30, 1938 - Berlin - NSDAP parade in Berlin

January 5, 1939 - Obersalzberg - Spends 10 days on the Obersalzberg with Hitler

March 27, 1939 - Budapest, Hungary - Goebbels arrives in Budapest

March 31, 1939 - Athens, Greece - Goebbels arrives in Athens, via Belgrade

April 1, 1939 - Island of Rhodes - Goebbels flies to the Island of Rhodes

April 5, 1939 - Cairo, Egypt - Goebbels flies to Cairo

April 9, 1939 - Island of Rhodes - Returns to Rhodes

April 19, 1939 - Berlin - Preparations for the Führer's birthday

June 1(?), 1939 - Danzig (Gdansk, Poland) - Arrives in Danzig for the Gau culture week

July 2, 1939 - Salzburg, Austria - Arrives in Salzburg

August 15, 1939 - Berlin - Flies back to Berlin

August 22, 1939 - Berchtesgaden - Joins Hitler in Berchtesgaden. Hitler orders a military mobilisation against Poland

August 24, 1939 - Berlin - Hitler and Goebbels return to Berlin

September 27, 1939 - Gross-Born - Goebbels visits Hitler's headquarters at the troop training ground of Gross-Born

October 31, 1939 - Łodz, Poland - Goebbels arrives in Łodz to meet Governor General Hans Frank

November 8, 1939 - Munich - Goebbels attends Hitler's speech at the Bürgerbräukeller. Surprisingly, the Führer finishes his speech earlier than expected, after being informed by his pilot that he would have to return to Berlin by train due to bad weather making it dangerous to fly. Hitler leaves the place 11 minutes before Elser's bomb explodes, leaving 8 dead and 63 wounded

April 8, 1940 - Berlin - Hitler informs Goebbels about the invasion of Denmark and Norway on the next day

June 30, 1940 - Ypres | Langemarck | Arras - Goebbels visits the First World War battlefields of Ypres, Langemarck and Arras

July 1, 1940 - Paris, France - Goebbels arrives in Paris after visiting The Hague, Brussels, Antwerp and Louvain

July 3, 1940 - Near Freudenstadt, Black Forest - Goebbels is summoned to Hitler's headquarters near Freudenstadt in the Black Forest

July 18, 1940 - Berlin - Reception of the troops in Berlin following the French campaign

August 4, 1940 - Berlin - Hitler summons Goebbels to the Reich Chancellery: "“He has decided to get tougher. Large-scale air raids on England impending. Accompanied by a barrage of propaganda to the English people that I’m to prepare and carry out"

August 24, 1940 - Berlin - Diary: "Italy wanted to intervene in Yugoslavia and Greece", but Hitler "expressed the wish that they not do that. We must defeat England. That is the first and most important task"

October 21, 1940 - Berlin - Inspects houses destroyed by the first british air raids on Berlin

October 29, 1940 - Berlin - Daughter Heide is born

November 13, 1940 - Berlin - "Diplomatic breakfast" with Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov

March 20, 1941 - Berlin - In a meeting at the ministry of Propaganda, Adolf Eichmann announces that it would be possible to deport 15,000 jews from Berlin, if they were joined up with the 60,000 jews that Hitler had approved for deportation

April 12, 1941 - Berlin - Hitler and Goebbels receive the news in shock that Rudolf Hess took off in a plane and landed by parachute in Scotland

April 13, 1941 - Berchtesgaden - Hitler and Goebbels fly to Berchtesgaden. Hitler abolishes the position of the Führer's deputy

April 14, 1941 - Berlin - Back in Berlin

August 27, 1941 - Zeithaim, near Riesa - Goebbels visits one of the prisoner camps where soviet soldiers were kept in sub-human conditions

September 21, 1941 - Army South Group HQ (Kiev region) - Goebbels arrives for a visit. Hitler decides to begin deporting the German jews to the East

October 28, 1941 - Berlin - Diary: "The modestly-sized preliminary evacuations of jews from Berlin are still a major theme in enemy propaganda"

November 2, 1941 - Vilnius, Lithuania - Held up in Vilnius because of bad weather and unable to fly to Smolensk

December 5, 1941 - Vienna, Austria - Speech in Vienna at the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of Mozart's death

December 9, 1941 - Berlin - Hitler arrives in Berlin for a meeting with Goebbels

December 11, 1941 - Berlin - Hitler declares WAR against the United States

December 12, 1941 - Berlin - Reich Chancellery Meeting - Hitler resolves that the Jews of Europe were to be exterminated immediately, rather than after the war, which now had no end in sight.

March 13, 1942 - Vienna, Austria - Speech at the Heldenplatz in Vienna on the occasion of the 4th anniversary of the Anschluss

March 27, 1942 - Berlin - Diary: "The Jews are now being deported to the east from the General Government, beginning with Lublin. A fairly barbaric procedure, not to be described in any detail, is being used here, and not much is left of the Jews themselves. In general it can probably be established that 60 percent of them will have to be liquidated, while only 40 percent can be put to work"

March 29, 1942 - Berlin - Goebbels receives the first reports of an "extraordinarily heavy air raid that the English have carried out on Lübeck"

May 31, 1942 - Berlin - Goebbels receives the first reports of a "massive air raid that the English have carried out on Cologne" (The first thousand-bomber raid in history)

June 15, 1942 - Berlin - Social event with the "most polite Berliner" circle in Berlin

July 8, 1942 - Feldafing - Goebbels visits the National Socialist German College in Feldafing

August 7, 1942 - Berlin | Cologne - Meeting with Göring. Goebbels flies to Cologne for a tour of inspection

August 8, 1942 - Düsseldorf - Visit to Düsseldorf

August 12, 1942 - Vinnitsa, Ukraine - Goebbels joins Hitler at his headquarters to provide him with the report of his tour of inspection

October 29, 1942 - Berlin - Letter from Hitler, who hoped that Goebbels could decipher his handwriting because his hands were "gradually beginning to shake"

November 8, 1942 - Munich - Commemoration of the anniversary of the failed 1923 putsch

November 18, 1942 - Elberfeld - Speech in Elberfeld after an allied bombing

December 28, 1942 - Lanke, Bogensee (N. of Berlin) - Bormann arrives in Lanke (Goebbels's manor) on Hitler's behalf to discuss with Goebbels the planned celebration of the 10th anniversary of January 30, 1933

January 8, 1943 - Berlin - Meeting with Speer, Bormann, Keitel, Lammers, Funk and Sauckel

January 22, 1943 - Wolfsschanze, near Rastenburg, East Prussia - Goebbels joins Hitler at his headquarters in East Prussia

February 3, 1943 - Berlin - Goebbels announces the fall of Stalingrad on the radio

February 5, 1943 - Posen - Speech in Posen

Sportpalast speech, Berlin

February 18, 1943 - Berlin - Sportpalast Speech in Berlin - In the first public admission thatthe Nazis were in danger, Goebbels calls for a total war (Totaler Krieg - Kürzester Krieg, or "Total War - Shortest War")

March 1, 1943 - Munich | Berlin - Berlin is attacked by over 250 planes, killing +700 people. Goebbels arrives from Munich to inspect the damage

March 8, 1943 - Vinnitsa, Ukraine - Goebbels arrives to Hitler's headquarters and the Führer informs him that he was about to dismiss Göring

April 1, 1943 - Berlin - Appointed Stadtpräsident of Berlin

April 13, 1943 - Berchtesgaden - Goebbels travels by train to Berchtesgaden for a meeting with Göring. Shortly before arriving, he suffers terrible pains in the kidneys and his unable to leave his sleeping car

June 5, 1943 - Berlin - Speech in the Sportpalast to improve the bad mood in Germany after the defeat in Tunisia

June 24, 1943 - Obersalzberg - Meeting with Hitler

June 25, 1943 - Obersalzberg - Meeting with Göring

July 8, 1943 - Cologne - Flies to Cologne in order to observe the consequences of the air raid that had taken place a few days earlier

July 9, 1943 - Heidelberg - Reception to celebrate the renewal of his doctoral diploma at Heidelberg University

July 11, 1943 - Berlin - Diary: "At last the invasion that has long been awaited and often talked about has happened" (Allied landing in Sicily)

July 17, 1943 - Berlin - Diary: "The question increasingly arises of how on earth we are supposed to cope with a two-front war"

July 26, 1943 - Wolfsschanze, near Rastenburg, East Prussia - Hitler, Bormann, Himmler and Goebbels meet in Hitler's headquarters in East Prussia to discuss the events in Italy

August 8, 1943 - Berlin - Diary: "We must now start using politics"...."For there are very obvious contradictions between the plutocratic west and the Bolshevist east"

August 18, 1943 - Hamburg - Visits Hamburg after Operation Gomorrah

August 24, 1943 - Berlin - In Berlin while the city is bombarded by RAF on the night of 23-24

September 1, 1943 - While in Berlin - His hometown of Rheydt is severely damaged by a british air raid

September 10, 1943 - Wolfsschanze, near Rastenburg, East Prussia - Hitler and Goebbels discuss their views on Italy and Mussolini

September 22, 1943 - Wolfsschanze - Meeting with Hitler

October 6, 1943 - Posen (Poznań, Poland) - Goebbels goes to a meeting of Reich leaders and Gauleiters in Posen, including Himmler

October 27, 1943 - Wolfsschanze - Goebbels visits Hitler at his headquarters: "How do we get out of the two front war, and is it better to reach a deal with England or with the Soviets?"

November 22, 1943 - Steglitz, SW Berlin - While attending a party meeting in Steglitz, Berlin suffers a massive RAF bombardment. Goebbels goes to the recently established "command bunker" at Wilhelmplatz. The Reich Chancellery, the Foreign Ministry and the ministries of transportation, finance and agriculture are hit. Diary: "There are fires burning everywhere; the streets are blocked, bombs and mines keep falling, in fact it really feels like being in a war zone"

November 28, 1943 - Berlin - Speech at a Hitler Youth Rally

December 24, 1943 - Schwanenwerder - Christmas Eve alone in Schwanenwerder

January 30, 1944 - Berlin - RAF raid over Berlin. "one of the heaviest we've experienced so far". The Sportpalast and the Philharmonie are destroyed

February 4, 1944 - Berlin - Inspection tour through Berlin

February 23, 1944 - Munich - Two-day meeting of Gauleiters in Munich

February 29, 1944 - Berlin - Meeting with Himmler

March 1, 1944 - Berlin - Goebbels receives a group of survivor soldiers from the Cherkassy pocket

June 3, 1944 - Nuremberg - Speech in Nuremberg

June 5, 1944 - Obersalzberg - Goebbels visits Hitler on the Obersalzberg

June 6, 1944 - Berchtesgaden | Schloss Klessheim - Goebbels visits the Bormanns, then is summoned to Schloss Klessheim by Hitler

June 16, 1944 - Berlin - Ministerial conference after the first operational deployment of the V-1 flying bombs

At the Berghof with Hitler

June 21, 1944 - Obersalzberg - Meeting with Hitler

June 22, 1944 - Berghof, Berchstesgaden - Meeting with Hitler

July 7, 1944 - Breslau - Speech in Breslau

July 9, 1944 - Berlin - Diary: "It must after all be possible to hold the front at some point" ... "If things go on like this the Soviets will very soon be on our East Prussian border. I keep asking myself in despair what the Führer is doing about it"

July 13, 1944 - Berlin - Speer shows Goebbels the film of the launch of an A4 (V-2 rocket). Goebbels's diary: "One has the impression of being there at the birth of a new world. I can imagine that the A4 will bring about a complete revolution in weapons technology and that future wars will look completely different"

July 20, 1944 - Berlin - Goebbels receives the news of the assassination attempt on Hitler by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg

July 23, 1944 - Wolfsschanze, near Rastenburg, East Prussia - Goebbels is appointed Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War

August 3, 1944 - Posen - Meeting of Gauleiters in Posen

September 2, 1944 - Wolfsschanze - Meeting with Hitler and Albert Speer

September 6, 1944 - Berlin(?) - Goebbels is briefed on the V-2 rocket program by Hans Kammler

September 9, 1944 - Berlin - Goebbels learns that Magda's son Harald "was wounded and was missing in fighting on the Adriatic and there was no news yet of his having been taken prisoner"

September 20, 1944 - Berlin - Prepares a memorandum for Hitler proposing that they should attempt to begin peace negotiations with the Soviet Union through the mediation of Japan

December 1, 1944 - Berlin - Hitler summons Goebbels to the Reich Chancelery and outlines his plan for a major offensive in the West

December 3, 1944 - Lanke, Bogensee (N. of Berlin) - Hitler visits Joseph and Magda Goebbels

January 22, 1945 - Berlin - Meeting with Hitler

January 27, 1945 - Berlin - Meeting with Göring

January 29, 1945 - Berlin - Meeting with Albert Speer

March 4, 1945 - Berlin - Foreign Minister Ribbentrop's liaison at the Führer headquarters, Walther Hewel, informs Goebbels that the foreign minister's attempts "to put out feelers to the western countries [...] have no prospect of success at the moment"

March 7, 1945 - Hohenlychen Sanatorium, 75km N. of Berlin | Dresden - Goebbels meets Himmler in Hohenlychen, where the Reichsführer was recuperating from a nervous breakdown following the failure of the Army Group Vistula, which he was commanding, to halt the Red Army offensive in Pomerania. Visit to the destroyed city of Dresden. Diary: "tragedy […] such as has seldom occurred in the history of humanity and almost certainly won’t occur again during the course of this war". 

March 8, 1945 - Lauban, Silesia - Speech to the troops in Lauban, Silesia, which had just been recaptured

March 9, 1945 - Berlin - Goebbels awards a 16-year-old Hitler Youth, Willi Hübner, the Iron Cross for the defence of Lauban

March 13, 1945 - Berlin - The Propaganda Ministry is destroyed by a RAF Mosquito air raid

March 27, 1945 - Berlin - Goebbels' diary: "Speer is more of an artist by nature. Admittedly he has great organizational talent but politically he is too inexperienced to be totally reliable in this critical time. The Führer is very angry about recent statements made to him by Speer. Speer has allowed himself to be influenced by his industrialists and is continually saying that he does not intend to lift a finger to cut the German people's lifeline; this is for our enemies to do; he does not intend to take responsibility for it. The Führer counters this by saying that we have to carry the responsibility anyway, that the point now is to bring the struggle for our people's existence to a successful conclusion and that tactical questions play only a subordinate role. The Führer intends to summon Speer during the afternoon and face him with a stern alternative: either he must conform to the principles of present-day conduct of the war or the Führer will dispense with his assistance. He says with much bitterness that he would prefer to live in a prefab or creep underground then have palaces built by a member of his staff who had proved a failure at the moment of crisis"

April 18, 1945 - Berlin - Goebbels burns his private papers

April 22, 1945 - Berlin - Last article in "Das Reich" titled "Resistance at all costs". Magda Goebbels and their six children move to Hitler's underground bunker

April 23, 1945 - Berlin - Proclamation to the city of Berlin: "I call on you to fight for your city. Fight with everything you have got, for the sake of your wives and your children, your mothers and your parents. Your arms are defending everything we have ever held dear, and all the generations that will come after us. Be proud and courageous! Be inventive and cunning! Your Gauleiter is amongst you. He and his colleagues will remain in your midst. His wife and children are here as well. He, who once captured the city with 200 men, will now use every means to galvanize the defence of the capital. The battle for Berlin must become the signal for the whole nation to rise up in battle"

April 27, 1945 - Berlin - Goebbels and Magda Goebbels conclude that escaping Berlin is impossible with 6 small children and because of the condition of his leg. Both make the decision to commit suicide and not let their children live in a world without National Socialism.

April 30, 1945 - Berlin - After Hitler's suicide, Goebbels succeds him as Chancellor of Germany. He carries his sole official act as Chancellor, dictating a letter to General Chuikov, which General Krebs delivers to him at his HQ in Tempelhof. Goebbels informs the soviet commander of Hitler's death, proposing a ceasefire and offering to negotiate peace terms with him

May 1, 1945 - Berlin - After the request is rejected, Goebbels decides that further efforts were futile. Outside of the Reich Chancellery, he and his wife commit suicide, after poisoning their six children with cyanide =(END)