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Sportpalast speech

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 calling for a total war; the tide of World War II was turning against Nazi Germany and its Axis allies.


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“I ask you: Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even yet imagine?”

Joseph Goebbels Sportpalast speech

Ich frage euch: Wollt ihr den totalen Krieg? Wollt ihr ihn, wenn nötig, totaler und radikaler, als wir ihn uns heute überhaupt erst vorstellen können?
Sportpalast speech, 18 February 1943
1940s

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