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| “ | I see your public speaking has improved, it seems I've created a monster. A strangely persuasive monster. | „ |
| ~ Goebbels joking with Zoller. |
Dr. Joseph Goebbels is a major antagonist in the 2009 American-German war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino Inglourious Basterds.
He was portrayed by Sylvester Groth who also portrayed Uncle Rudi in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Major Hiemer in Generation War.
Biography[]
Meeting Zoller[]
Goebbels is a close friend of Adolf Hitler, serving as his right-hand man and the second in command of the Nazi Party in addition to being key figure in the Nazi Germany as well as the head of the cinematic industry in Nazi-occupied France, because of this Private First Class Fredrick Zoller who is about to release his biopic film of his military achievements called "Nation's Pride" arranges a meeting with Goebbels, where he introduces him to Mademoiselle Emmanuelle Mimieux, the owner of a cinema and the most recent love interest of Private Zoller. They are unaware that she is in fact Shosanna Dreyfus, a Jewish woman whose entire family was murdered by the Nazis, and who plans to kill the entire Nazi hierarchy on the night of the film's premiere.
During the meeting, Zoller proposes Goebbels to change the film's premiere to Emmanuelle's cinema, after hearing that Emmanuelle's cinema is considerably smaller, Goebbels appears as expected, but Zoller ends up convincing him saying that the event would be more private like that, Goebbels accepts but they are interrupted by Col. Hans Landa (the man who killed Shosanna's family), Goebbels tells "Emmanuelle" that Landa would be the chief of security during the premiere, then Goebbels asks to see a movie at Emmanuelle's cinema.
Stolz der Nation[]
At the premiere night, Goebbels is sitting next to Hitler in the same box seats as Goebbels's interpreter and lover Francesca Mondino and Private Zoller himself, in the cinema there's also Lt. Aldo Raine, Private Omar Ulmer and Staff Sergeant Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on a suicide mission to shoot the Führer to death and blow up the cinema with TNT strapped on their legs, however the head of security of the premiere Colonel Hans Landa finds out and arrests Raine along with another of the Basterds Smithson Utivich, but Ulmer and Donowitz are still inside. Meanwhile, Hitler laughs at the Americans soldiers dying, and tells Goebbels it is the best he has ever made; Goebbels quietly weeps with happiness.
On the other hand, Shosanna has prepared her own plan to trap the Nazis in the cinema and burn it down with her collection of flammable, nitrate film, with the Nazis trapped inside. After an unexpected visit from Zoller where they both end up death by shooting each other, the film continues playing, then a secret film placed there by Shosanna gives her assistant Marcel the signal to burn the films, Goebbels and Hitler confused see how the screen starts burning as a terrified Hitler watches how his subordinates run in terror towards the door to find out is locked, Ulmer and Donowitz had made their way into Hitler's seats, as Hitler and Goebbels try to escape, Donowitz and Ulmer violently open the door and start shooting him, Goebbels and Francesca with machine guns, then they shoot from the box at the terrified Nazis, and Shosanna laughs in the film playing over the smoke, then Donowitz shoots Hitler's face destroying it, finally the TNT on Ulmer and Donowitz legs (and one placed under Hitler's seat by Landa) explode and the entire cinema is blown up, killing all the Nazis inside.
