Rudolf Semler (born 1913) was a journalist who worked as an
aide to
Joseph Goebbels
Paul Joseph Goebbels (; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician who was the ''Gauleiter'' (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 19 ...
in the
Reich Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda. In 1947, his diary was published in
London
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under the title ''Goebbels: The Man Next to Hitler'' with the publisher John Westhouse. It covers the period from December 1940 to the end of the war and is a valuable source for historians of
Nazi Germany
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. In the book the name of the author is wrongly given as Rudolf Semmler instead of Semler. He started his job with Goebbels in January 1941.
1913 births
Year of death missing
20th-century German writers
20th-century German male writers
German male non-fiction writers
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