Sportpalast speech
1943 speech by Joseph Goebbels
Sportpalast speech
The Sportpalast speech (German: Sportpalastrede) or Total War speech was a speech delivered by German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels at the Berlin Sportpalast to a large, carefully selected audience on 18 February 1943, as the tide of World War II was turning against Nazi Germany and its Axis allies. It is considered the most famous of Goebbels's speeches. The speech was the first public admission by the Nazi leadership that Germany faced serious dangers. Goebbels called for a total war (German: totaler Krieg) to secure victory over the Allies, and urged the German people to continue the war even though it would be long and difficult because, as he asserted, both Germany's and Europe's survival were "at stake" from Bolshevism.
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