The authentic duplicate copies on glass also provided the most important basis for the typewritten dictated pages from 1941 to 1945. The original sheets are scattered around the world, and with them alone it would not have been possible to prepare a complete edition. At the same time, all the fragments, no matter how small, preserved in various countries are consistent with the texts of the microcopies in Moscow. Therefore, the sensational discovery of the glass slides provided the final and most convincing proof that the diaries were genuine. The volumes of dictated entries give valuable new insights into the war period and war policy, as well as into everyday life and the situation of the German population during the war. Thus, they provide researchers with manifold new impulses. The dictated passages are published in their entirety in their final autographic version - including the military situation report prefacing every entry. Each entry has a brief introduction characterising the material on which the edition is based and giving a brief description of its history.

It proved to be a most fortunate and far-sighted decision when the Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Institute for Contemporary History) and the K.G. Saur Verlag (K. G. Saur Publishers) decided to prepare a new - and above all complete - edition of the handwritten diary entries, fragments of which had already been published in 1987. In particular, the diary entries that are published here for the first time provide fascinating and hitherto unknown insights into the psyche and character of the diarist, but even more so into the early history of the Nazi Party, into the political developments up to their assumption of power in 1933 and their subsequent brutal consolidation of that power. In contrast to the previous partial editions, the complete edition contains significant diary entries on numerous events of particular historical relevance. The edition of the handwritten diaries is based on the original notebooks written by Goebbels, which were taken to Russia and the USA by the Allied Powers, and a backup commissioned by Goebbels himself using an early form of glass microfiche discovered by the editor in Moscow in 1992, who brought duplicates to Munich.

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