Do you want total war

Do you want total war?

This is a part of the famous speech by Dr. Joseph Goebbels. It was delivered on 02-18-1943 to 15.000 carefully selected people in Berlin. The battle of Stalingrad had ended and the allies demand the unconditional surrender of the German Reich at 01-24-1943, a few days before this speech was held.

The English maintain that the German people has lost faith in victory.

I ask you: Do you believe, with the Führer and with us, in the final total victory of the German forces?

I ask you: Are you resolved to follow the Führer through thick and thin to victory, and are you willing to accept the heaviest personal burdens in the fight for victory?

Second: The English say that the German people are tired of fighting.

I ask you: Are you ready to follow the Führer as the phalanx of the Homeland, standing behind the fighting army and to wage war with wild determination through all the turns of fate until victory is ours?

Third: The English maintain that the German people have no desire any longer to accept the government's growing demands for war work.

I ask you, soldiers, worker and female worker: Are you and the German people willing to work, if the Führer orders in the need, 10, 12 and if necessary 14 and 16 hours a day and to give everything for victory?

Fourth: The English maintain that the German people are resisting the total war measures of the government. They do not want total war, the English maintain, but capitulation!

I ask you: Do you want total war?

Do you want a war, if necessary, more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?

Fifth: The English maintain that the German people have lost faith in the Führer.

The crowd is shouting: "Führer command, we follow!"

I ask you: Do you trust the Führer?