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
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| Goebbels, 1921 |
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
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| Wedding day - Magda, Goebbels and Magda's 10-year-old son Harold |
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
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| Goebbels, May 10, 1933 National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD |
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
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| Magda, Hitler and Goebbels (Independent.co.uk) |
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
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| Sportpalast speech, Berlin |
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
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| At the Berghof 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)
