“With only one segment of the population is Joseph Goebbels (1897 – 1945) popular. Economic radical and son of the Ruhr, he knows the phrases that charm the proletariat. ‘Stand up, you young aristocrats of a new working class! You are the aristocrats of the Third Reich!’ he shouted to Berlin workmen in the 1920s. Whatever following Hitler has among factory workers – the class that profited least from the Nazi revolution – is due to Goebbels.”
