Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Werner Naumann (16 June 1909 25 October 1982) was a State Secretary in Joseph Goebbels' Propagandaministerium during the Third Reich. He was appointed head of the Propaganda Ministry by Nazi Führer Adolf Hitler in his political testament after Dr. Goebbels was promoted to Reichskanzler.Naumann was born in Guhrau in Silesia, Prussia, Germany. After finishing school, he studied political economics. Naumann joined the NSDAP in 1928, and was promoted to the leader of an SS brigade in 1933. Five years later he was made personal aide of Joseph Goebbels and in 1942 became his assistant secretary. He was a member of the Freundeskreis Reichsführer SS around Heinrich Himmler and served several times in the SS-Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler during World War II.