Online Module: The Holocaust and Fundamental Rights

Doc. 1: Joseph Goebbels about intended actions against the Jews

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Extract from the diary of the Minister of Propaganda and Regional Party Leader of Berlin, Joseph Goebbels, concerning the situation of Jews in Berlin, 25 May 1938. Since the German metropolis offered much more scope for self-assertion, the number of Jewish people and businesses had not shrunk as much as it had in other German towns. This is why Goebbels asked his close friend Count Helldorf – in his function as police chief of Berlin – to implement harsher persecution measures.

Sources

  • Elke Fröhlich (ed.): Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, Teil I, Aufzeichnungen 1923-1941, Munich 2005, vol. 3/1, pp. 316 et seq.

 

Excerpt from the diary of the Minister of Propaganda and Regional Party Leader of Berlin, 25 May 1938

DHM Lemo

Joseph Goebbels on the Bückeberg, September 1938.
Source: DHM Lemo.

"Discussed the Jewish question in Berlin with Helldorff. We want to push the Jews out of the economy and cultural life, out of public life altogether. After all, you’ve got to start somewhere. I call Funk in on the discussions as well. In a few months, we’ll be ready.
Helldorff is really throwing himself into it. This is an urgent task."

 

 

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