On the streets of Nazi Germany his club foot and feeble, polio-weakened frame earned him the scathing nickname, the "poison dwarf".
But now a new academic biography has shown how Joseph Goebbels, despite his physical shortcomings, was an unlikely Casanova - recording his sexual conquests on 30,000 sheets of paper that made up his diaries.
The man who became Adolf Hitler's propaganda chief is also revealed as a mawkish sentimentalist. "How deep and totally did I get to know her!" he wrote of one of his early romantic encounters. "Blessed days. Only love. Perhaps the happiest time of my life."
By the time Goebbels had emerged as one of the most influential figures of the Third Reich, his sexual appetite and fondness for exploiting the opportunities presented by the propaganda ministry's film-making division earned him another nickname among the actresses who frequented its casting couch: the ram.
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