...suicide, Admiral Karl Doenitz effectively became sole leader of the Third Reich with the suicide of Hitler's propaganda minister, Josef Goebbels. In 1960, the Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 reconnaissance plane near Sverdlovsk...

...dissidents, strangling freedom of speech and the press in an ever-tightening noose of official censorship. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels peppered the newspapers and airwaves with the glories of Hitler's Germany, and by and large...