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1988
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American Experience
The Man Behind Hitler 18 Season 13 Episode
55 min
1988
6.6
A profile of Joseph Goebbels (1897-45), who helped launch Hitler's rise to power. Kenneth Branagh provides voice-over readings of Goebbels' personal diaries. Included: footage from German archives tracing Goebbels' life; how Goebbels continually stage-managed his life and reinvented himself from his early days as a radical โpopular socialistโ to his death.
