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World War II: Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech.

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Joseph Goebbels

German Nazi propaganda minister (1897–1945)

Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German Nazi politician and philologist who was the Gauleiter of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler's closest and most devoted followers, known for his…
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Sportpalast speech

1943 speech by Joseph Goebbels

The Sportpalast speech 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…
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