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===Sportpalast speech, February 18, 1943===

===Sportpalast speech, February 18, 1943===

Goebbels delivered possibly his most famous speech on February 18, 1943 at the Berlin Sportpalast, two weeks after the [[Battle of Stalingrad|surrender at Stalingrad]] in which he asked the German people if they wanted total war.

Goebbels delivered possibly his most famous speech on February 18, 1943 at the Berlin Sportpalast, two weeks after the [[Battle of Stalingrad|surrender at Stalingrad]] in which he asked the German people if they wanted total war.<ref>[https://youtu.be/XTWyIFwIX4E Joseph Goebbels in English AI Reconstruction], Time Unveiled, Mar 22, 2024. [[YouTube]].</ref>

{{quotebox-float|...We face a serious military challenge in the East. The crisis is at the moment a broad one, similar but not identical in many ways to that of the previous winter. Later we will discuss the causes. Now, we must accept things as they are and discover and apply the ways and means to turn things again in our favor. There is no point in disputing the seriousness of the situation. I do not want to give you a false impression of the situation that could lead to false conclusions, perhaps giving the German people a false sense of security that is altogether inappropriate in the present situation.

{{quotebox-float|...We face a serious military challenge in the East. The crisis is at the moment a broad one, similar but not identical in many ways to that of the previous winter. Later we will discuss the causes. Now, we must accept things as they are and discover and apply the ways and means to turn things again in our favor. There is no point in disputing the seriousness of the situation. I do not want to give you a false impression of the situation that could lead to false conclusions, perhaps giving the German people a false sense of security that is altogether inappropriate in the present situation.