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Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (1933–1945); Gauleiter (1926–1945); member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic; member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany."},{"q":"Where did Joseph Goebbels study?","a":"Joseph Goebbels was educated at University of Bonn, Heidelberg University, University of Freiburg, University of Würzburg."}],"related":[{"name":"Adolf Hitler","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/adolf-hitler"},{"name":"Robert Heinrich Wagner","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/robert-heinrich-wagner"},{"name":"Franz Schwede","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/franz-schwede"},{"name":"Hubert Burda","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/hubert-burda"},{"name":"Adolf Butenandt","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/adolf-butenandt"},{"name":"Adolf von Bomhard","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/adolf-von-bomhard"},{"name":"Albert Osswald","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/albert-osswald"},{"name":"Alfred Freyberg","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alfred-freyberg"},{"name":"Alfred Herrhausen","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alfred-herrhausen"},{"name":"Alois Spaniol","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alois-spaniol"},{"name":"Amandus Augustus Abendroth","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/amandus-augustus-abendroth"},{"name":"Aminata Touré","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/aminata-toure"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/joseph-goebbels-f6215b446b.jpg","width":500,"height":672,"license":"CC BY-SA 3.0 de","credit":"Heinrich Hoffmann","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1968-101-20A,_Joseph_Goebbels.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Joseph Goebbels","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q41749","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41749","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1968-101-20A, Joseph Goebbels.jpg by Heinrich Hoffmann (CC BY-SA 3.0 de)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1968-101-20A,_Joseph_Goebbels.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Joseph Goebbels, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. 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