This is a great question. I always wondered how Goebbels explained his deformity and his almost classic Jewish appearance. I have no idea if it was even ever addressed as he was a pretty powerful Nazi, but there must have been some inside jokes up at the Eagle’s Nest, knowing the type of jerks who hung out there. Goering comes to mind. He was said to have a pretty cruel sense of humor.
Just found this here:
“Goebbels had been rejected for military service during World War I because of a crippled foot – the result of contracting polio as a child – and a sense of physical inadequacy tormented him for the rest of his life, reinforced by resentment of the reactions aroused by his diminutive frame, black hair and intellectual background. Bitterly conscious of his deformity and fearful of being regarded as a “bourgeois intellectual,” Goebbels overcompensated for his lack of the physical virtues of the strong, healthy, blond, Nordic type by his ideological rectitude and radicalism once he joined the NSDAP in 1922.
The hostility to the intellect of the “little doctor,” his contempt for the human race in general and the Jews in particular, and his complete cynicism were an expression of his own intellectual self-hatred and inferiority complexes, his overwhelming need to destroy everything sacred and ignite the same feelings of rage, despair and hatred in his listeners.”