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Analyzing Joseph Goebbels's total war speech in Nazi Germany
Joseph Goebbels calling for total war before a crowd in Berlin, 1943.
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NARRATOR: 1943 - defeat at Stalingrad, bombing raids on the Reich, burning cities. The Nazi regime is under pressure. Propaganda Minister Goebbels wants to win public support. In Berlin he commits the nation to total war.
PROPAGANDA MINISTER GOEBBELS: "The English claim that the German people are against the government's total war strategy. The English say the people don't want total war, that they want surrender."
SABINE BOEBE: "The audience was stirred up about innocent women and children and violating the public and carpeting our German homeland with bombs. And, of course, this fed the anger in the crowd. And when the questions came and the shouting started, all control was lost."
GOEBBELS: "Do you want total war?"
NARRATOR: Goebbels' deceitful presentation fulfils its purpose.
BRUNHILDE POMSEL: "We were absolutely aghast that it was possible to move this overcrowded stadium into a frenzied delirium, just asking such a question: Do you want total war? Yes! Yes! All this screaming. It was a grim experience. We stood there, paralyzed. One of the people standing with us said 'Clap! You must clap!'"
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As the tide of World War II was turning against Germany, Joseph Goebbels gave his "Total War" speech at the Berlin Sportpalast to a carefully selected audience of 14,000.
May 8, 2024 · Joseph Goebbels calling for total war before a crowd in Berlin, 1943. See all videos for this article. Goebbels’s mastery of propaganda was particularly apparent after Germany’s defeats in Stalingrad and Africa. Goebbels did not falsify the facts of the prevailing situation.
