Goebbels started a weekly newspaper called Das Reich in 1940 and generally wrote the lead article each week, which showed his anti-Semitic views, in which he took great pride. In his article written in November 1941, “The Jews are Guilty!”, Goebbels announced that the future of the Jews in Germany was over and anyone sympathetic to the Jews would be punished. This anti-semitic article, like most of Goebbels’s lead articles, was read over the radio ("Goebbels on the Jews (1941)"). Joseph Goebbels supported sending Jews to concentration camps and ghettos to the east and pushed for Jews in his jurisdiction in Berlin to be sent first. "The world war is here", he wrote in a diary entry dated December 1941, "The annihilation of Jewry must be the
