

He joined the Nazi Party in 1924, and worked with Gregor Strasser in its northern branch. Goebbels, who aspired to be an author, obtained a Doctor of Philology degree from the University of Heidelberg in 1921. He advocated progressively harsher discrimination, including the extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust. 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. Paul Joseph Goebbels ( pronounced ( listen) 29 October 1897 – ) 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.
