Goebbels delivered his penultimate speech over the radio on 28 February 1945, which I am adding today. His final speech was on 19 April on the occasion of Hitler’s birthday.
The military situation was grim. The Soviets were charging in from the east, the Americans and British from the west. Goebbels had no good news to give, as he commented privately in his diaries. He was forced to resort to what Earnest Bramsted called the “lure of historical parallels.” If Frederick the great had done it then, Germany could to it in 1945.
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