Sometimes an e-mail from a visitor to the site sets my curiosity in motion. Recently I received a question from a Russian scholar about Goebbels’s 1944 Christmas Eve speech, mentioned in one of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s poems. I’d not looked at it before, so using that astonishing Austrian site that provides long runs of Austrian newspapers I found the speech, then wondered what he had to say a week later on New Years Eve.
Today I am adding translations of his 1944 Christmas Eve speech and the New Years Eve speech a week later. Goebbels had little to say based on facts, but he did his best to argue that since Germany had survived until then, it somehow had to win the war.
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