willemvanoranje
Curitibano
could you jump to june 13th for me? 
On this day in History
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Zcylen
Moonlight Rambler
interesting, you must have been real bored joespaniel 
Phantom Lord
live by the sword
February 18th, 1943
The most infamous propaganda speech in history takes place in the Sportpalast in Berlin, held by Joseph Goebbels. It's widely known as "Sportpalast-Rede". The speech not only adresses the german population, it's also supposed to adress enemy nations in order to show the german population's total loyality to Hitler.
Taking place soon after the complete defeat of the 6th army in Stalingrad, Goebbel's speech has two major objectives: To reinforce the morale of troops and citizens at the "home front" and to breed enough hate for jews and anti-nazis to announce their total extinction. At the culmination of his speech Goebbels asks the audience his "10 questions" as a "tax for truth". The most (in)famous one is certainly #4: "Do you want the total war? Do you want it, if neccessary, to be more total and radical than anything we can even imagine today?" The audience goes crazy over the process, every question is celebrated and every answer is seen as a direct message towards enemy nations. Goebbels himself finds it difficult to calm the audience enough to be able to finish his speech.
In a private meeting after the speech Goebbels himself calls the audience "moronic" and states that they "also would have jumped out of the window from the third story if he'd asked them to.".
It was one dark moment for Germany, maybe even the darkest.
The most infamous propaganda speech in history takes place in the Sportpalast in Berlin, held by Joseph Goebbels. It's widely known as "Sportpalast-Rede". The speech not only adresses the german population, it's also supposed to adress enemy nations in order to show the german population's total loyality to Hitler.
Taking place soon after the complete defeat of the 6th army in Stalingrad, Goebbel's speech has two major objectives: To reinforce the morale of troops and citizens at the "home front" and to breed enough hate for jews and anti-nazis to announce their total extinction. At the culmination of his speech Goebbels asks the audience his "10 questions" as a "tax for truth". The most (in)famous one is certainly #4: "Do you want the total war? Do you want it, if neccessary, to be more total and radical than anything we can even imagine today?" The audience goes crazy over the process, every question is celebrated and every answer is seen as a direct message towards enemy nations. Goebbels himself finds it difficult to calm the audience enough to be able to finish his speech.
In a private meeting after the speech Goebbels himself calls the audience "moronic" and states that they "also would have jumped out of the window from the third story if he'd asked them to.".
It was one dark moment for Germany, maybe even the darkest.
West German
Warlord
"Ebert elected president in 1919, adopted Deutschlandlied as national anthem."
Yes, Ebert was a great man and Deutschlandlied is a great song.
Yes, Ebert was a great man and Deutschlandlied is a great song.
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