Hannah Arendt had Adolf Eichmann in mind when she coined the term “Banality of Evil,” but she might as well have been thinking of Joseph Goebbels. As the fuhrer’s propaganda minister, “Dr.” Goebbels — ...

Minister of Propaganda throughout the Hitler years, Josef Goebbels had no rival in the black art of lying to the public. Down the centuries, cynical rulers had habitually exhorted their subjects to ...