From Diaries to Daddies, or Eugenics in the Nazi SS

Amy Carney

 

For me, it all began with a diary, a one-volume translation of selected entries by the Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels. I was reading it because I was looking for a dissertation topic, and I had an interest in Nazi propaganda. But this is not a diary like we typically think; Goebbels wrote it with later publication in mind, believing that people would use it as a valuable resource to understand the Third Reich. And historians certainly have made use of his diary in ways Goebbels probably could have never imagined