Tuesday, 25 September 2012


Goebbels was a sensitive man," poems up for auction
 
21:28 24 SET 2012 

(AGI) Rome, September 24 - It may be difficult to believe but Joseph Goebbels wrote poems, love letters, short stories and novels. 

The material, which shows a previously unseen side to the character of Adolf Hitler's head of Nazi propaganda, will be auctioned this week in Stanford, Connecticut. 

The value of what the auction house Alexander has called "the most significant collection of writing of the Second World War" is estimated to be between 200 and 300 thousand dollars. 

The short stories and other documents, says the auction house, show "the transformation of a romantic student who reads Marx and Engels" into an "anti-Semitic Nazi, the propagandist of the man who destroyed large swathes of Europe".

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