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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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 February 2025. Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945) "Goebbels" redirects here. For other uses, see Goebbels (disambiguation). Reichsleiter Joseph Goebbels Goebbels in 1933 Chancellor of Germany In office 30 April – 1 May 1945 President Karl Dönitz Preceded by Adolf Hitler Succeeded ...
At the Nazi Party level, there were three Reich leaders with media jurisdiction whose areas of responsibility overlapped: the Reich propaganda leader Joseph Goebbels, the Reich leader for the press Max Amann, and the Reich press chief Otto Dietrich. The latter, as vice president of the Reich Press Chamber, was in turn Goebbels' subordinate in ...
Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels helped write the speech, [2] which was delivered on the sixth anniversary of Hitler's seizure of power in 1933. [3] The speech lasted two [4] or two-and-a-half hours. It dealt with both the foreign and domestic policies of the Nazi government. [5]
In April 1930, Hitler appointed Goebbels head of party propaganda. Goebbels, a former journalist and Nazi Party officer in Berlin, soon proved his skills. Among his first successes was the organisation of riotous demonstrations that succeeded in having the American anti-war film All Quiet on the Western Front banned in Germany. [8]
[30] [31] Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels helped write the speech, [32] which was delivered in the Reichstag on 30 January 1939, the sixth anniversary of Hitler's seizure of power in 1933. [33] The speech lasted two [34] or two-and-a-half hours and dealt with both the foreign and domestic policies of the Nazi government. [20]
Censorship in Nazi Germany was extreme and strictly enforced by the governing Nazi Party, but specifically by Joseph Goebbels and his Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. Similarly to many other police states both before and since, censorship within Nazi Germany included the silencing of all past and present dissenting voices.
Goebbels gave a speech on American negative reactions to anti-Jewish campaigns in 1938, to call for their stopping their criticism. [ 167 ] Hitler declared America as a "mongrel nation", grown too rich too soon and governed by a capitalist elite with strong ties to the Jews and the Americans were a "mongrel people" incapable of higher culture ...