History of Kilburn and West Hampstead

Joseph Goebbels joined the German Nazi Party in 1924. He was part of Hitler’s inner circle and was Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945. When Hitler committed suicide in the Berlin bunker as the Russians were advancing, he named Goebbels as his successor. But he was only Chancellor of Germany for a day: he committed suicide with his wife and six children on 1 May 1945 . What was little known, until it appeared in the Daily Express in March 1938, is that Kilburn had its own Goebbels. The article said: Pronouncements of Mr Goebbels of Cambridge Road Kilburn, have nothing to do with international affairs; they concern the price of prime pork and best English lamb. Sometimes customers in his butcher’s shop tease him about a recent speech of the German Minister of Propaganda, but Mr Goebbels of Kilburn, unperturbed, goes on slicing a nice piece of undercut. He has no interest in politics. Newspaper picture of Cornelius Goebbels in 1938 Cornelius Goebbels, who was...