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Events on Tuesday 1 May 1945 1
1897 – 1945Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945)Died 1 May 1945, aged 47Goebbels served as Nazi Germany's Minister of Propaganda, directing the regime's media, censorship, and antisemitic messaging. He killed his six children and himself along with his wife in the Berlin Führerbunker the day after Hitler's suicide. He had briefly succeeded Hitler as Chancellor.