Heinrich Fraenkel and Roger Manvell, Doctor Goebbels: His Life and Death, page 299.In 1932 Goebbels saw fit to have certain allegations that his grandmother was Jewish refistedinapamphlet published in Berlin, Doktor Josef Goebbels-wer ist das? by Viator. In this pamphlet his grandmother’s maiden name is given the German spelling of Coerdes, and her Dutch origin is concealed. Her husband, Goebbels’ maternal grandfather Odenhausen, was a German who had emigrated to Holland.
Also, according to the historian Robert Payne, it was widely spread that Goebbels had Javanese ancestry from Indonesia.
Robert Payne, The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler, page 215.Her ancestors had lived in Dutch Indonesia, and it was widely rumored that Goebbels had some Javanese blood.
Who started that rumour? I can’t find it mentioned in any other books.