The love letters, school papers, and dramatic works of a college-age Joseph Goebbels reveal a romantic young man beginning to show signs of anti-Semitism and egotistical behaviour, according to a Connecticut auction house selling the pre-war writings of Adolf Hitler’s propaganda chief.

THE article headlined ‘Sinister blasphemy law would play into the hands of religious nut cases’ (Irish Examiner, May 6) brought to mind the Goebbels’ dictum – “tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”

SOME pre-negotiation jabbing turned into a potentially damaging diplomatic incident when Brazil’s foreign minister said rich countries’ deception in trade talks reminded him of tactics used by Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels.