Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, poses with his six children. 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. As the war drew to a close and Nazi Germany faced defeat, his wife and children joined him

Joseph and Magda Goebbels murdered their six children rather than let them live without Hitler. | Sunday Roast