After the Nazi loss at Stalingrad in February 1943, Goebbels admitted recent losses and argued for total war in his famous Sportpalast speech. While the new strategy prolonged the war ...

Goebbels and Hitler played on the fears and hopes of the German people, who had been humiliated by the loss of World War I and had suffered through an economic depression, to promote a nationalist ...

Female worker in a German aircraft factory in 1942 'Total War', first declared by Joseph Goebbels in February 1943, was an idea that all of Germany’s economic activity would be focused solely on ...