The Arsonist

The Life Story of Joseph Goebbels
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The Arsonist / Der Brandstifter
The Life Story of Joseph Goebbels
How could it come to this madness?
He paved the way for the ideological rise of Nazism. His name is synonymous with the figure of the ruthless demagogue and the practice of mass manipulation: Joseph Goebbels.

As the Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda of the Third Reich, he perfected the things we know today under the names of »fake news« and »conspiracy theories«, deploying them in previously unknown ways.

Anybody who wants to understand the mechanisms of deception and disinformation...
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He paved the way for the ideological rise of Nazism. His name is synonymous with the figure of the ruthless demagogue and the practice of mass manipulation: Joseph Goebbels.

As the Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda of the Third Reich, he perfected the things we know today under the names of »fake news« and »conspiracy theories«, deploying them in previously unknown ways.

Anybody who wants to understand the mechanisms of deception and disinformation needs to be familiar with the life story of this man, who was only able to become such a master of deception because he had already learned to betray himself.
»A compelling and incisive analysis of a burgeoning mass movement that had such horrific consequences.« St. Galler Tagblatt
»A compelling and incisive analysis of a burgeoning mass movement that had such horrific consequences.« St. Galler Tagblatt
2024, 318 pages
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Alois Prinz, born in 1958, studied literature and philosophy in Munich and now lives in Kirchheim near Munich with his family. He has published numerous biographies, including ones on Georg Forster, Hermann Hesse, Ulrike Marie Meinhof and Franz Kafka. Awards for his work include the German Youth Literature Prize and the Evangelical Book Prize. 2012 saw the publication of his book Hannah Arendt oder Die Liebe zur Welt, which sold more than 130,000 copies. In 2017 he was awarded the Grand Prize of the German Academy for Children’s and YA Fiction and in 2018 the Annual EMYS Award for Best YA Non-Fiction.

Alois Prinz, born in 1958, studied literature and philosophy in Munich and now lives in Kirchheim near Munich with his family. He has published...


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