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Think about that bomb you hear at 2:07. The person who fired that shell could have never imagined that at the same time, Goebbels is recording a 3-minute speech in the bunker, and that the sound of the bomb he fired would be captured accidentally and echo for eternity. Absolutely mindblowing.
The sound of the bomb in the background at 2:07 adds so much to this recording. Demonstrates how close the Soviets were, and just how dire the situation was. You typically associate broadcasts like these as being safe and away from the fighting, but here it was intertwined with it.
@@kyurox603 my uncle‘s colleague had a grandfather who had a cousin and his sister had a friend who told him that his mother‘s great grandfather’s cousin‘s uncle has a friend who once shook Adolf‘s hairstylists hand
@@40yrsago omg no way i had an aunt who's friends's roomates's pal's grandma, knew a soldier who fought in the spanish war who's hairstylist, went to the same barbershop school as Adolf's hairstylist
The microphone was excellent, the point is the audio recorder. I don't think, that in this moment they made any attempt to record the speech in the best possible audio quality.
Most hi-end microphones of today are based on 2-3 different German designs from the WWII era. The surviving old ones are used on recordings to this day. The Beatles? Every vocal recorded with German microphones of the immediate post WWII-period, based on designs from the 1930s.
Speech likely recorded on magnetic audiotape, which the Germans had perfected to the point that the recording was practically indistinguishable from a live broadcast.
@@hepphepps8356true. I saw a rather elegant 1930's German microphone that would fit in perfectly with modern aesthetics, even in comparison to the most "high end" mics on the market.
It's interesting to me that he makes it (subliminally) clear that the final fight for Berlin is not in order to turn the tide of the war, but just to make sure it isn't taken by the Soviets
@@bigdaddytrips6197 Bro, read his comment again, he never said that the soviets havent taken Berlin, he said that the JUST OF THE FIGHT WAS SO THE SOVIETS DONT TAKE THE CITY
I'm a big history buff, and I love historical audio like this. And after having learned some german, it is kind of surreal to finally understand this. Before it was just these voices in a language I didn't understand. And now it's these words I know, and I can understand what he was saying. It just adds another level of realism you can't get normally.
I'm currently learning Deutsch myself and i know exactly what you mean! I couldn't understand all of it but when he refered to his wife and kids staying in Berlin it hit a little different being able to directly understand him. People seem to always forget that all of these guys were just human and it's not too far a stretch to say most people would have walked the same road given they were wearing the same shoes so to speak.
There is no copyright for public speeches. Also, speeches made before 1962 are generally public domain. I never had a successful copyright strike on any of my videos.
if you think youtube is an "archive" of historical data, then you're severely ignorant. The national archives is but only one of many government institutions around the world in charge of archiving history.
My grandfather would have heard this speech, sitting in his small apartment in Berlin with his family around him. He went out, joined the Volkssturm and was machine gunned to death on the 26th April by the Red Army. My father hardly got to know him, he was just six years old when his Dad walked out of the door never to return
Sad to hear about your familys' loss! But keep in mind: There are people, who are still thankful for (t)his sacrifice 🖤🙏 My grandfather got "lost" ("m.i.a./missing in action") somewhere at the eastern retreat in 1944. The same year, his son (my dad) was born-they never saw each other😔 Due to the chaotic circumstances, there is no data about the exact fate of his unit =/ My grandmother had his portrait on her nightstand all life long. (he was wearing the Wehrmacht uniform on it).
@@blackpaint9093 He died serving his country, because a lunatic ran his country into the ground for his paranoid delusions and unhinged visions of grandeur. Yes, may he rest in peace--but his life (and millions more) were wasted, utterly and completely.
This is probably the first time he was calm, he is not speaking with the same energy he used to do, perhaps he was already aware of the end. Also the Soviet bombings in the background, makes of this piece of audio, a treasure.
I dont agree. He speaks in clear and perfect german. There are a lot of speeches years before where he sounds the same. When he spoke in front of masses, yes, there he put more energy into the speech. But here in his last message, he sounds like always. This is Joseph Goebbels, an intelligent and cultivated man. And a really evil Nazi.
They knew since the middle of 1944 that they had lost. They were too egotistical to surrender but chose to sacrifice more German lives and the Allies obliged them so nicely.
@@violinhunter2 They sought for peace multiple times but even the Anglo-Americans would only have accepted an unconditional surrender. So they had no choice.
I hear shells exploding in the background several times. The one at 2:06 is very loud. The Soviets were hunting him down with more than a hunting rifle.
i think this recording has undergone some decisive cleaning and restoration. that said, im sure there are quite A LOT of speeches from adolf and his leading henchmen in archives of better audio quality, than the ones we get shown all the time, who are muffled, distorted etc. we will never get to hear or see them "for our own minds protection". yeah yeah.
No, that's not an echo from outside speakers. How could this have been recorded? In this case, shouldn't the explosions of the fights be heard better? It's the before and after talk of the magnetic tape, which occurs when the tape is stored for a long time. The recording has been restored, so you can hear it only in some places. On the other hand, you can very clearly hear the artifacts of the restoration in the strange sounding tape hiss.
If this was indeed recorded on 21 April, which was a Saturday, it is interesting that Goebbels says that the Soviet offensive started last Sunday, which would be 14 April. The Berlin offensive really started on 16 April. However, interestingly, in the book "Soldat" by Siegfried Knappe a participant in the battle it is also stated that the offensive started on 14 April. Perhaps they are referring to the initial probing attacks, which would be mistaken for the start of the general offensive.
"In the early hours of 16th April,civilians in the eastern quarters of Berlin were awoken by a distant rolling thunder. The vibrations were so strong that telephones began to ring on their own and pictures fell from their hooks. Women emerged slowly from their apartments and exchanged meaningful looks with neighbours. They hardly needed to speak. The long-awaited Soviet offensive had at last begun sixty miles to their east." The opening paragraph of the introduction/foreword to A Woman in Berlin,a Berlin journalist's account of those final days of the War,which extends to describe the situation in Berlin in the days and weeks immediately following the Nazi surrender and Soviet occupation.
@@rjjcms1 Yes, that is true. My mistake. In any case, it's common knowledge that the offensive in the main started on the 16th. Perhaps it began in the very early hours so that's why Goebbels is referring to the (night of the) 15th. Or perhaps it's the probing attacks and early shelling.
@@itzamia no dude, Goebells was extremely good at propaganda that this even convinced me for a second that Germany even had a chance at repelling the Soviet advance
He was an okay commander I think. But he did not really do much. He had very little resources when he was appointed in March and was replaced as Berlin defense area commander in quick succession by Colonel Kaether, Hitler himself and finally General Weidling before the real urban fighting started.
You must understand that Goebbels understood propaganda better than any other politician in those days. Top Nazi's could not be everywhere for speeches, so recorded speech was extremely important. For a company to win the order to make this equipment was of big importance. These companies were big: AEG, BASF and so on. Radio ownership was promoted, not to make a profit (like e.g. in the USA), but for propaganda.
One thing you notice was how very clear the recording is. This was likely a recoding on an AEG _Magnetophon_ tape recorder, the world's first practical tape recorder models with broadcast quality. Indeed, the Allies were wonder how did the Germans make such long recordings, including full symphonies, with such unusual high quality sound even over AM broadcasting until they found the _Magnetophon_ machines by late 1944.
@@Intel-i7-9700k It was much better than German engineering today. I bought a factory new top of the line Bmw M3 delivered in Munich. The car has had more mechanical failures than any brand i have owned and it started right from the beginning driving away from the factory with the engine complaining about low oil level ! Engine has burned oil ever since and now at 30k miles. Bmw pretended to care about the issue but then got away without reimbursing me the brand new lemon. And even what works as designed in the cabin is badly designed and more of a burden on the user than a luxury. For example the automated seat belt arm fails to grab the seatbelt and what you get at the end of your hand is a empty hook where the seat belt should be. This happens 7 times out of 10 absolutely unacceptable. And there are tons of poor design choices, like the FM radio having now permanent radio station display, you have to navigate through the poorly and slow menu to find what the heck the radio is doing. It is my first high end German purchase and the last !
That's so interesting, how much of his story do you know? He must've been one of a very rare bunch of men who experienced that, was he apart of the initial invasion force in 1941?
My grandpa was also fighting for Wehrmacht. But He Always missed the shots by purpose because He never wanted to kill Somebody. Than He was a prisoner in the gulags of russia already almost dead He got transported by one of the Last trains to Germany from one of the Last surviving , barely alive after Gulag. A Woman on a Farm helped him and cared about him until He was fine again. Than He found His wife and Made my Grandma. ITS a Wonder i am alive , ITS so crazy and surreal. War Always sucks. Peace and love for EVERYBODY 😌
my great uncle was said to have walked from russia to germany after the war but I didn't understand how he managed to, or how long it took him if it he actually walked it, i mean he must have taken a train or smth?
Seen this just a few days after seeing Dönitz first address to Germany in May 1945. I hope these aren’t deleted under stupid hate speech ToS, they’re important historical material that should be available to anyone.
@@Macfierce1 With “stupid hate speech ToS” he probably meant the algorithm’s inability to distinguish educational content from actual hate speech videos tho but I agree
@@HooDatDonDar thats not hate speech there arent members of the nazi party alive today but if you target a specific religion or shit then its hate speech
Мои фольксгеноссе-берлинцы! В прошлое воскресенье большевики начали свое большое наступление на Одерском фронте. Их цель - Берлин. Овладение столицей Рейха должно дать в руки Сталину важный козырь в политической игре союзников. Поэтому битва за столицу Рейха стала битвой за Германию и Европу. В ходе героической обороны наши мужественные дивизии и ополченцы «фольксштурма» нанесли советам тяжелейший урон. Однако их самопожертвование не смогло помешать большевикам подойти к внешним линиям обороны столицы Рейха. Таким образом, Берлин стал прифронтовым городом. Защитники Берлина! На вас устремлены взоры ваших жен, ваших матерей и ваших детей. Они доверили вам свою жизнь, свое счастье, свое здоровье и свое будущее. Вы знаете сейчас свою задачу, и я знаю, что вы ее образцово выполните. Час вашего испытания настал! Военная оборона столицы Рейха поручена генерал-лейтенанту Райману. Он - кавалер Рыцарского креста Железного креста с дубовыми листьями. Его командованию, не раз проверенному в этой войне, все солдаты и фольксштурмисты могут довериться безусловно. Я со своими сотрудниками, разумеется, остаюсь в Берлине. Здесь также находятся и здесь остаются моя жена и мои дети. Всеми средствами я буду активизировать оборону столицы Рейха. Мои мысли и действия посвящены вашему благополучию и защите от нашего общего врага. Монгольское нашествие должно быть и будет сломлено у стен нашего города. Наша борьба станет маяком для самой решительной борьбы всей нации. Исполненные фанатичного стремления не позволить столице Рейха пасть в руки большевиков, мы все как один готовы к борьбе и труду. Наша цель - свобода нашего народа и государство социальной справедливости в счастливом будущем.
@@GlobexCorporationHankEr hat zwei Tage zuvor eine Rede über den Führer gehalten. Es war Tradition, dass er am Vorabend des 20. April eine Ansprache im Radio über Hitler hielt…
@@th3litgods exactly. Western capitalism and Soviet communism were two opposite ends of the spectrum and there was a huge deal of mistrust between the British, Americans, and the Soviets. The capture of Berlin meant that the Russians had a greater spear of influence on Eastern Europe as we saw from the late 40s to the 90s.
@@coleman4840The Western Allies sacrificed East Germany for maintaining a stalemate between 2 Superpowers. That's why Germany will ever be divided ideological. That's also why Germany will never become a proud nation. Kind of sad for me.
@@copa593 Yeah it was Nazi Germany's last desperate effort. His parents and siblings were devastated. I'm grateful to the Allies that Germany can be a free country today.
Real or faked do you think? A bit fortuitous how the loudest explosion is just as he says he is staying even though its dangerous. As if to emphasise his point.
It's really crazy how comparable political messages are. Really goes to show just how a few can cause such a major catastophe for everyone else. Uncontestable respect to the brave heroes of WWII
A few people can NEVER cause such changes, they can only push society a little in one direction or another. Propaganda always talks about problems that are familiar to everyone. Public consciousness cannot be turned 180 degrees by the efforts of a couple of people. If propaganda works, then people are ready to accept it.
@@Kycko_ depends on what you'd consider a "few". it was one man who finally kicked off the first world war, and it was those who wrote up the treaty of versailles and the nazi party who paved the way for the second. in the grand scheme of things, not really a lot of people.
I looked up the commanding general that he is lauding and here’s what Wikipedia had to say: “Both Wilhelm Burgdorf and Goebbels convinced Hitler that Reymann should be relieved of command. When Reymann chose not to locate his office next to Goebbels's office in the Zoo Tower, Goebbels held that act against him.[3] On 22 April, Hitler relieved Reymann of his command for his defeatism and replaced him…” So one day after this speech he was replaced, at Goebbels’ insistence. Now that’s a propaganda minister.
@@derick3482 1. We're do you see bolshevism? 2. What exactly you mean by bolshevism? Not like the USSR is gone for 30 years feels like the Bolsheviks are down already
Thank you for posting/translations. You hear people ask "why did the Germans keep fighting when it was hopeless?", because speeches like those of goebbles and the wochenshau was often the only information they heard. We have hindsight and this is often underestimated, we know how it ended. There was no way they could have.
Lots of soldiers already knew at this point, that they couldnt win the war anymore. Some of them were hoping that the Nazi-Leadership would negotiate a peace contract, some of them were in such big fear of soviet occupation, that they fought till the very end. Meanwhile some others didnt stop to fight, because they were afraid of the punishment, they would receive, if they deserted.
A lot easier to hear with headphones but you hear bombs at 0:251:442:072:41 Plus you can hear maybe a live broadcast of what he's saying with a bit of a delay in the background. At 1:57 I swear it sounds like something firing back.
Good catch, you actually hear it about 3 times , it sounds somewhat similar to a flak40 round outgoing which they were using against tanks at the time and the zoo flak tower where he was headquarters did have those as weapons.
It's the before and after talk of the magnetic tape, which occurs when the tape is stored for a long time. No speakers from outside. Where else would the noise of battle be?
As a descendant of those who he referred to as 'Mongolstuermer' I feel kinda weird saying this, but as someone who studies German, these recordings strike me with how clear, understandable an actually beautiful his German sounds. I had the same impression of the recording of Goering's interrogation at Nuremberg. Could be a standard for public speaking + education. Wonder if the native speakers notice that, too.
@untergeher odd is the right word for it. It is a very clear yet unusual pronunciation of a few words. Still you do not hear any obvious dialect. Nevertheless it is a very controlled and maybe on purpose calm speech, in particular to Hitler's or even his speech proclaiming the total war some years earlier.
hard to say it's beautiful when it's full of lies and rah-rah we'll fight to the very end propaganda. Beauty can be found in similes, elegance, simplicity, subtlety, hidden complexity, humor, rhythm or euphony, but not in the twaddle of a highly-intelligent but deranged fanatatic and murderer.
ну просто он сказал правду.. совковые рабы гнались пулеметами и ружьями нквдшников сталина вперед.. эта была как чума.. стая волков что захватывала Германию.. это было ужасно и похоже на конец мира. До 1989 так и было.
He speaks very clearly but both Goebbels and Hitler had a very threatrical way of speaking in public. And Goebbels was extra dramatic in kind of a way one would have expected Marc Anthony doing his "Friends, Romans., Countrymen" speech. The way he stresses certain vowls is very unusual for a politician by modern standards but for a theatrical actor it is still fitting. I think that fascist leaders thought they could create extra charisma by speaking like an actor. Mussolini or Oswald Mosley were also far from casual when giving speeches. Modern politicians might try to sound more casual to give an impression of authenticity to their audience because today we know that the great orators might want to deceive us.
That is not bombs you are hearing but in fact artillery shells. I am fairly certain, if this date of April 21 is accurate, that the allies had ceased bombing Berlin bc of the closeness of Russian ground forces.
General Peron was a follower of the ideas of Hitler and Mussollini, but hearing Goebbels speak of "social justice" (one of the leitmotiv's of the Peronists) is truly incredible!
In nazi parlance, social justice simply means state overseen capitalism with guaranteed minimum wages and monetary stability. Add that it would protect veterans, be Jewish free, and there you have the talk for the masses still being uttered as it was in the 30s.
@@jdm2651 In media the word Nazi is used for the National Socialist Workers Party of Hitler. While many even monarchists as well as the military collaborated with the National Socialists for their own reasons, Dr. Goebbels, the intellectual with an artistic bent and a Ph.D., was a committed socialist (not unusual for certain intellectuals then as now). Every entity, be it a citizen or corporation , more or less willingly, becomes a functionary of the state, whether officially nationalized or not.
He would never let the Soviets take him, The amount of German high ranks that commited suicide is absurd, Crazy hearing those bombs get closer and closer the more the video goes on.......
Im historischen Kontext ist diese Rede noch bemerkenswerter als sie ohnehin schon ist. Besonders beim letzten Teil läuft mir ein eisiger Schauer über den Rücken.
He called them Mongols, which may seem weird but it was and still is a common slur against Russians. For example, some has called Russia today an "Asiatic Horde". There is an infamous WSJ article showing Putin as Genghis Khan titled "Russia’s Turn to Its Asian Past"
To add more info: Russia was once conquered by the Mongols, and once it broke free of Mongol rule, the Russians adopted many of the political and military systems of the Mongols (including the extremely despotic and hierarchical economic system, which didn't end until the mid 1800s). Plus, much of the population of Siberia had Mongolian features, and were a common sight on the battlefield. So it was both a racial and cultural slur.
@@mochalo4912 Weird statement since the thing you said originated from racism. Anyway no, Germans thought Russians as "subhuman mongols", Russians for them were not European or white, they were asiatic, this question(are russians white?) is present to this day.
Not weird. Modern Russia was under the control of Tatars who are descendants of the Mongols who tried to defeat the Islamic world but converted. The Mongol admixture is enough to make Russians look a bit funny. Yes, they took notes and modelled a system of governance on, really, their oppressors, arguably 'perfecting' it.
@@dorottagati6883 Germans never made the distinction of "white" and "non-white", only Aryan and non-Aryan. Non-Aryan meant Jewish. There were many supporters of Nazi Germany in Russia, including hundreds of thousands who fought under the Nazi flag. Germans were not bothered in the slightest by the existence of other races.
I was a German major and have a degree in German language and culture (that was 46 years ago so don’t expect me to speak like a native like I could back then) and I could understand a good amount of what he said. When I was in my 4th year of study (nearly everything was taught in German by mid-second year) we were given the option of watching some films (no videos back then) of the Nuremberg rallies. A number of us opted to watch and while interesting at the same time it was unsettling to listen to what they were espousing and watch the crowds hail them and applaud.
I had to listen to this three times over - he doesn't mention the boss once. I'm sure that everyone would have been very grateful to him at this point.
Yeah life for a kid in 2023 can be really tough. Tell that to our new generations with the highest rates of depression and loneliness than every other generation in world history.
These nazi speeches, Hitler,Georing, Goebbel,etc, are never translated. Knowing what they are saying would be much more better. One gets a little more insight into the mind of the speaker. just sayin.
It’s odd to hear this from the vantage point of decades and be able to feel how half-hearted he sounds, using clichés and tired phrases. He knew it was hopeless.
The main reason was “Lebensraum” basically in their minds the Slavs were not racially pure enough to be occupying so much land and the Germans wanted to expand their “Aryan” race. Therefore the Germans invaded the ussr to secure this land had they won the Slavs would be killed and German settlers would be moved into the east to reproduce
this was common. save at least enough bullets for your family and self… what the soviets did to surviving women and children was far worse than being shot.
@@vibovitold No, they weren't lol. The commie leadership also would have done the same if the Japanese invaded from the East and the Germans surrounded Moscow.
There is a much longer (10mins or so) speech Goebbels gave I believe prior to this one. It could be argued it was his last "major" speech wherein he deploys oratory skills rather than the sober and decidedly somber nature of this speech. If you know of the speech I'm speaking of, if you could upload it, it would be appreciated.
That's true for sure... But the German Goebbels speaks has an accent which is very close to Dutch. Not weird, because Goebbels came from the German city of Rheydt... About 50 kilometers from the Netherlands.... Been there quite often.
This was only 9 days before his suicide and with the evident collapse of the capital looming most people had betrayed Hitler and saved themselves. Himmler and Goering are good examples of this. The only man who truly remained loyal to Hitler in the end was Goebbels. Hitler was largely out of the public spotlight by February anyway
There were estimations made by the british if Operation Unthinkable would have gone through. They predicted that the western allies would fail miserably. And again, General Patton was a fucking idiot.
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It's amazing how you can hear the bombing in the background.
at 2:07 a bomb explodes
So many history is being bombed away
Love the detail thx
0:26 as well
Just about the only interesting thing in the video
Think about that bomb you hear at 2:07.
The person who fired that shell could have never imagined that at the same time, Goebbels is recording a 3-minute speech in the bunker, and that the sound of the bomb he fired would be captured accidentally and echo for eternity. Absolutely mindblowing.
Same thoughts, its so bizarre, I kept replaying the part because it sounds so unreal to coincide with his speech.
I know what you mean!
He didn't move to the bunker till the day after he recorded this speech. He was at flaktower Zoogarten
Du hörst überall Einschläge wenn du einen Lauten Kopfhörer hast
@@andershomewig1871 Das habe ich gehört! Sie waren den Sowjets nicht gewachsen.
The sound of the bomb in the background at 2:07 adds so much to this recording. Demonstrates how close the Soviets were, and just how dire the situation was. You typically associate broadcasts like these as being safe and away from the fighting, but here it was intertwined with it.
Don't forget American bombing and the British bombing which was only for revenge
@@paruhblgen4222 к чему тут это?
I clearly noticed that. It made the atmosphere even darker
The explosions in the background can be easily the sound of flak cannons shooting the enemy. Just read the description.
Time for the strychnine Herr Goebbels & family....
This was recorded exactly 78 years ago. There are people still around who heard it live.
My friend's grandfather shook Hitler's hand.
@@kyurox603 Is he Argentinian? 🤣
@@kyurox603 my uncle‘s colleague had a grandfather who had a cousin and his sister had a friend who told him that his mother‘s great grandfather’s cousin‘s uncle has a friend who once shook Adolf‘s hairstylists hand
@@40yrsago omg no way i had an aunt who's friends's roomates's pal's grandma, knew a soldier who fought in the spanish war who's hairstylist, went to the same barbershop school as Adolf's hairstylist
@Hitler was right nice name!
when he got a better mic in 1945 than you in 2023
The microphone was excellent, the point is the audio recorder. I don't think, that in this moment they made any attempt to record the speech in the best possible audio quality.
Most hi-end microphones of today are based on 2-3 different German designs from the WWII era. The surviving old ones are used on recordings to this day.
The Beatles? Every vocal recorded with German microphones of the immediate post WWII-period, based on designs from the 1930s.
Speech likely recorded on magnetic audiotape, which the Germans had perfected to the point that the recording was practically indistinguishable from a live broadcast.
@@hepphepps8356true. I saw a rather elegant 1930's German microphone that would fit in perfectly with modern aesthetics, even in comparison to the most "high end" mics on the market.
LMAOooooo fr
the fact that you can hear the speakers blaring this outside and the shelling in the distance really gives another level of detail
I wanted to commit suicide but with this speech I want to live
It's interesting to me that he makes it (subliminally) clear that the final fight for Berlin is not in order to turn the tide of the war, but just to make sure it isn't taken by the Soviets
At this point of the war most germans had already gotten the clue that the war was lost
yeah. because if the Americans got there first, every nazi would've been employed to work for the US
They ended up taking it. You know nothing
@@bigdaddytrips6197 ? the op wasn't saying that it wasn't taken by the Soviets, just that it became Germany's goal not to lose it to them.
@@bigdaddytrips6197 Bro, read his comment again, he never said that the soviets havent taken Berlin, he said that the JUST OF THE FIGHT WAS SO THE SOVIETS DONT TAKE THE CITY
All the bombs that we can hear in the background : 00:25, 01:44, 02:07 and 02:40
Ty so much!
could be outgoing, he was in a flak tower
2:07 is COLD, gave me chills dude
I'm a big history buff, and I love historical audio like this. And after having learned some german, it is kind of surreal to finally understand this. Before it was just these voices in a language I didn't understand. And now it's these words I know, and I can understand what he was saying. It just adds another level of realism you can't get normally.
I'm currently learning Deutsch myself and i know exactly what you mean! I couldn't understand all of it but when he refered to his wife and kids staying in Berlin it hit a little different being able to directly understand him. People seem to always forget that all of these guys were just human and it's not too far a stretch to say most people would have walked the same road given they were wearing the same shoes so to speak.
Its pretty nuts as a german to listen to this too haha
Sehr wahr
@@the_Googie was hast du anders gehört ?er hat nur normal geredet
@@thanos1229 What he means is that finally bring able to understand him after learning German made the speech feel more real to him.
i hope we can archive more historical data like this
This recording came from the archives.
RUclips deleted a lot of these!
There is no copyright for public speeches. Also, speeches made before 1962 are generally public domain.
I never had a successful copyright strike on any of my videos.
@@GermanWWIIArchive Hello! Would you have accidentally filed Hitler's statement after the ill-fated attempt at his murder by Colonel Stauffenberg?
if you think youtube is an "archive" of historical data, then you're severely ignorant. The national archives is but only one of many government institutions around the world in charge of archiving history.
My grandfather would have heard this speech, sitting in his small apartment in Berlin with his family around him. He went out, joined the Volkssturm and was machine gunned to death on the 26th April by the Red Army. My father hardly got to know him, he was just six years old when his Dad walked out of the door never to return
May he rest in peace. He died for his country to protect his family
Sad to hear about your familys' loss!
But keep in mind:
There are people, who are still thankful for (t)his sacrifice 🖤🙏
My grandfather got "lost" ("m.i.a./missing in action") somewhere at the eastern retreat in 1944.
The same year, his son (my dad) was born-they never saw each other😔
Due to the chaotic circumstances, there is no data about the exact fate of his unit =/
My grandmother had his portrait on her nightstand all life long.
(he was wearing the Wehrmacht uniform on it).
@@blackpaint9093 He died serving his country, because a lunatic ran his country into the ground for his paranoid delusions and unhinged visions of grandeur. Yes, may he rest in peace--but his life (and millions more) were wasted, utterly and completely.
@@jvn4940 was für wahnsinniger? Bist du blöd
War is hell. I’m sorry for your loss.
This is probably the first time he was calm, he is not speaking with the same energy he used to do, perhaps he was already aware of the end. Also the Soviet bombings in the background, makes of this piece of audio, a treasure.
I dont agree. He speaks in clear and perfect german. There are a lot of speeches years before where he sounds the same. When he spoke in front of masses, yes, there he put more energy into the speech. But here in his last message, he sounds like always. This is Joseph Goebbels, an intelligent and cultivated man. And a really evil Nazi.
true young lady
He was aware that the war was lost as early as 1942 if we look at his memories
They knew since the middle of 1944 that they had lost. They were too egotistical to surrender but chose to sacrifice more German lives and the Allies obliged them so nicely.
@@violinhunter2 They sought for peace multiple times but even the Anglo-Americans would only have accepted an unconditional surrender. So they had no choice.
The shelling really gives this another level, that it is actually near the end of the war
@Ozi Bits The war still ended though.
I hear shells exploding in the background several times. The one at 2:06 is very loud. The Soviets were hunting him down with more than a hunting rifle.
💣🙈☠️
As well as the Russian's hunting down Goebells he was completely delusional.
A shame they didn't get to hang him like the others
@Admiral Karl Döenitz
He was delusional his whole life. He helped light that part of the world on fire based on his delusions.
The Flack Tower was virtually impregnable. At that time, he was safer than anyone else in Berlin.
The fact that a mic from 1945 is better than 90% of the headphone mics today is crazy.
i think this recording has undergone some decisive cleaning and restoration. that said, im sure there are quite A LOT of speeches from adolf and his leading henchmen in archives of better audio quality, than the ones we get shown all the time, who are muffled, distorted etc. we will never get to hear or see them "for our own minds protection". yeah yeah.
If you listen real closely with headphones, you could almost hear his voice echoing on the loud intercoms outside the bunker throughout Berlin.
I can hear it
Yes !
tatsächlich!!! Deinen nächsten Termin beim HNO Arzt kannst du dir sparen!
No, that's not an echo from outside speakers. How could this have been recorded? In this case, shouldn't the explosions of the fights be heard better?
It's the before and after talk of the magnetic tape, which occurs when the tape is stored for a long time. The recording has been restored, so you can hear it only in some places. On the other hand, you can very clearly hear the artifacts of the restoration in the strange sounding tape hiss.
I hear it
If this was indeed recorded on 21 April, which was a Saturday, it is interesting that Goebbels says that the Soviet offensive started last Sunday, which would be 14 April. The Berlin offensive really started on 16 April. However, interestingly, in the book "Soldat" by Siegfried Knappe a participant in the battle it is also stated that the offensive started on 14 April. Perhaps they are referring to the initial probing attacks, which would be mistaken for the start of the general offensive.
Believe the soviets first entered Berlin on 23rd.
If the 21st was a Saturday,that makes the previous Sunday the 15th.
"In the early hours of 16th April,civilians in the eastern quarters of Berlin were awoken by a distant rolling thunder. The vibrations were so strong that telephones began to ring on their own and pictures fell from their hooks. Women emerged slowly from their apartments and exchanged meaningful looks with neighbours. They hardly needed to speak. The long-awaited Soviet offensive had at last begun sixty miles to their east." The opening paragraph of the introduction/foreword to A Woman in Berlin,a Berlin journalist's account of those final days of the War,which extends to describe the situation in Berlin in the days and weeks immediately following the Nazi surrender and Soviet occupation.
"What was yesterday a distant rumble has now become a constant roar." Friday 20th April,4 p.m.
@@rjjcms1 Yes, that is true. My mistake. In any case, it's common knowledge that the offensive in the main started on the 16th. Perhaps it began in the very early hours so that's why Goebbels is referring to the (night of the) 15th. Or perhaps it's the probing attacks and early shelling.
"I'll be fine, it's just a few drinks"
24 minutes later:
“You’re wondering now, what to do, when you know this the end”.
Was that one of the things he said during this speech?
@@itzamia no dude, Goebells was extremely good at propaganda that this even convinced me for a second that Germany even had a chance at repelling the Soviet advance
Is this a reference to the Specials song or am I missing something
The curtain has fallen, now you’re on your own…
So strange to hear him say like and subscribe! during such a dark period.
Never thought I'd hear this monster thank his Patreon subscribers.
😂😂😂
Vielen Dank für das Hochladen dieses wertvollen historischen Tondokumentes! ❤
Major General Reymann died 1988 at 96. Not bad, he lucked out.
He was an okay commander I think. But he did not really do much. He had very little resources when he was appointed in March and was replaced as Berlin defense area commander in quick succession by Colonel Kaether, Hitler himself and finally General Weidling before the real urban fighting started.
Germans had the absolute best quality audio way back when. German engineering is top-tier.
It's remastered, still the quality of sound by the Germans made the reproduction sound 3D.
You must understand that Goebbels understood propaganda better than any other politician in those days. Top Nazi's could not be everywhere for speeches, so recorded speech was extremely important. For a company to win the order to make this equipment was of big importance. These companies were big: AEG, BASF and so on. Radio ownership was promoted, not to make a profit (like e.g. in the USA), but for propaganda.
Isn't this just not better than in other countries at the time?
One thing you notice was how very clear the recording is. This was likely a recoding on an AEG _Magnetophon_ tape recorder, the world's first practical tape recorder models with broadcast quality. Indeed, the Allies were wonder how did the Germans make such long recordings, including full symphonies, with such unusual high quality sound even over AM broadcasting until they found the _Magnetophon_ machines by late 1944.
German engineering baby
@@Intel-i7-9700k It was much better than German engineering today. I bought a factory new top of the line Bmw M3 delivered in Munich. The car has had more mechanical failures than any brand i have owned and it started right from the beginning driving away from the factory with the engine complaining about low oil level ! Engine has burned oil ever since and now at 30k miles. Bmw pretended to care about the issue but then got away without reimbursing me the brand new lemon. And even what works as designed in the cabin is badly designed and more of a burden on the user than a luxury. For example the automated seat belt arm fails to grab the seatbelt and what you get at the end of your hand is a empty hook where the seat belt should be. This happens 7 times out of 10 absolutely unacceptable. And there are tons of poor design choices, like the FM radio having now permanent radio station display, you have to navigate through the poorly and slow menu to find what the heck the radio is doing. It is my first high end German purchase and the last !
@@ericastier1646Just get an old Bimmer
My great-grandfather fought in Russia and survived the war. He walked back from Russia to Germany
Our neighbour was a child soldier and walked from germany all the way back to hungary
That's so interesting, how much of his story do you know? He must've been one of a very rare bunch of men who experienced that, was he apart of the initial invasion force in 1941?
Did u ask him how long did it take?
My grandpa was also fighting for Wehrmacht. But He Always missed the shots by purpose because He never wanted to kill Somebody. Than He was a prisoner in the gulags of russia already almost dead He got transported by one of the Last trains to Germany from one of the Last surviving , barely alive after Gulag. A Woman on a Farm helped him and cared about him until He was fine again. Than He found His wife and Made my Grandma. ITS a Wonder i am alive , ITS so crazy and surreal. War Always sucks. Peace and love for EVERYBODY 😌
my great uncle was said to have walked from russia to germany after the war but I didn't understand how he managed to, or how long it took him if it he actually walked it, i mean he must have taken a train or smth?
Seen this just a few days after seeing Dönitz first address to Germany in May 1945.
I hope these aren’t deleted under stupid hate speech ToS, they’re important historical material that should be available to anyone.
Hate speech should be deleted. But this ain't that. This is an important piece of history.
@@Macfierce1 americans should be deleted when new hispania becomes usa
@@Macfierce1 With “stupid hate speech ToS” he probably meant the algorithm’s inability to distinguish educational content from actual hate speech videos tho but I agree
@@Macfierce1 what is hate speech, though? I hate Nazis, is it wrong to say so?
@@HooDatDonDar thats not hate speech
there arent members of the nazi party alive today
but if you target a specific religion or shit then its hate speech
"Defender of Berlin, the eyes of your wives, mothers and children are on you."
Their wives, mothers and children who are also on the frontlines: 🗿
Actually, only a tiny percentage were.
@@Frosty_V0 I think they gave weapons to everyone for a last battle by that time. No one was spared.
Vielen Dank für diesen geschichtlichen Einblick.
Мои фольксгеноссе-берлинцы! В прошлое воскресенье большевики начали свое большое наступление на Одерском фронте. Их цель - Берлин. Овладение столицей Рейха должно дать в руки Сталину важный козырь в политической игре союзников. Поэтому битва за столицу Рейха стала битвой за Германию и Европу. В ходе героической обороны наши мужественные дивизии и ополченцы «фольксштурма» нанесли советам тяжелейший урон. Однако их самопожертвование не смогло помешать большевикам подойти к внешним линиям обороны столицы Рейха. Таким образом, Берлин стал прифронтовым городом. Защитники Берлина! На вас устремлены взоры ваших жен, ваших матерей и ваших детей. Они доверили вам свою жизнь, свое счастье, свое здоровье и свое будущее. Вы знаете сейчас свою задачу, и я знаю, что вы ее образцово выполните. Час вашего испытания настал! Военная оборона столицы Рейха поручена генерал-лейтенанту Райману. Он - кавалер Рыцарского креста Железного креста с дубовыми листьями. Его командованию, не раз проверенному в этой войне, все солдаты и фольксштурмисты могут довериться безусловно. Я со своими сотрудниками, разумеется, остаюсь в Берлине. Здесь также находятся и здесь остаются моя жена и мои дети. Всеми средствами я буду активизировать оборону столицы Рейха. Мои мысли и действия посвящены вашему благополучию и защите от нашего общего врага. Монгольское нашествие должно быть и будет сломлено у стен нашего города. Наша борьба станет маяком для самой решительной борьбы всей нации. Исполненные фанатичного стремления не позволить столице Рейха пасть в руки большевиков, мы все как один готовы к борьбе и труду. Наша цель - свобода нашего народа и государство социальной справедливости в счастливом будущем.
Danke!❤
Вообще не ожидал тебя тут увидеть!
Hitler is not even mentioned in this speech
@@GlobexCorporationHankEr hat zwei Tage zuvor eine Rede über den Führer gehalten. Es war Tradition, dass er am Vorabend des 20. April eine Ansprache im Radio über Hitler hielt…
немного знаю немецкий. спасибо за перевод. образец призыва на решающее сражение...
he wasn't wrong in those first 50 seconds. There was a political game going on between Russia and the west.
Yes? I wonder why, conflicting ideologies maybe.
@@th3litgods exactly. Western capitalism and Soviet communism were two opposite ends of the spectrum and there was a huge deal of mistrust between the British, Americans, and the Soviets. The capture of Berlin meant that the Russians had a greater spear of influence on Eastern Europe as we saw from the late 40s to the 90s.
The cold war had already begun.
@@coleman4840The Western Allies sacrificed East Germany for maintaining a stalemate between 2 Superpowers. That's why Germany will ever be divided ideological. That's also why Germany will never become a proud nation. Kind of sad for me.
Germany never wanted war against GB and the US, so why are you wondering
As an Englishman who speaks German as a second language I think his German is very clear and easy to understand.
Vielen Dank fürs Hochladen!
Fascinating.
The few explosions(?) in the background were particularly eerie.
☮
My great uncle was killed in action during the battle for Berlin. He was 16.
Was he a member of the "Hitler Youth?"
that's so young. It's surreal if you think about it in 2022. Sending a teenager to war with just a rifle and a prayer.
@@copa593
Yeah it was Nazi Germany's last desperate effort. His parents and siblings were devastated. I'm grateful to the Allies that Germany can be a free country today.
@@ninototo1 It's not free. 1945 was the last year Germany was free.
@@ninototo1 HAHAHAHAHAH good Joke, Germany isnt free today
His voice sounds normal, lacks the fanaticism of 1933..
Realisation that you're not superior specie and that you lost the war must've been very sobering.
No audience
Nothing to be fanatical about at this point, when the capital was on the brink of collapse from the Soviets
Its crazy how you can hear the Shelling in the backround
Chicken Hawks one in all-like most leaders who lie their people into war…
Real or faked do you think? A bit fortuitous how the loudest explosion is just as he says he is staying even though its dangerous. As if to emphasise his point.
when
Прекрасный кусочек истории!!! Спасибо вам за то что загрузили это видео ещё раз.)
Они должны были сделать два видео ,одно на англ ,другое на Русском
Неужели прекрасный? Вы восхищаетесь нацизмом?
@@IouriBelov я слушаю Миррей Матье, но наполеона не поддерживаю, честно-честно!
@@IouriBelov О нет, я восхищаюсь ораторским мастерством этого человека - по этому так фанатично просматриваю это видео раз за разом.....
@@twister41ster51 никто тебе ничего не должен
It's really crazy how comparable political messages are. Really goes to show just how a few can cause such a major catastophe for everyone else. Uncontestable respect to the brave heroes of WWII
A few people can NEVER cause such changes, they can only push society a little in one direction or another. Propaganda always talks about problems that are familiar to everyone. Public consciousness cannot be turned 180 degrees by the efforts of a couple of people. If propaganda works, then people are ready to accept it.
@@Kycko_ ure right, and you can still feel it in the populous today
There are no heros in war
@@Grevenrot Dumbass statement only an idealistic ‘pacifist’ would say.
@@Kycko_ depends on what you'd consider a "few". it was one man who finally kicked off the first world war, and it was those who wrote up the treaty of versailles and the nazi party who paved the way for the second. in the grand scheme of things, not really a lot of people.
Wow, einfach nur interessant... Danke für den Upload!
In Mitte der Rede explodiert eine Granate im Hintergrund
Da war nur Bombenwetter hat die Tagesschau gesagt ähm ich meine Wochenschau
@@niklas8195 Gewitter aus dem Osten ziehen langsam und hart, hier zweideutig :D
So interessant. Unglaublich wie verschieden die Welt vor ein paar Jahrzehnten doch war
Ja da gebe ich dir Recht!
A few?!
@@MDDeGrande1994 Yes! Yes! Yes!
Bro has a better mic than most people in 2024
He spoke a very good German, clear and easy to understand.
That's why they were so persuaive. Simple and clear language.
And yet he said "Erobung" instead of "Eroberung" lol
He tried to fake a confidence, that he lost. He wasn't a good actor and so he couldn't hide it, how he wants it.
Well I would hope so being he was head of propaganda
Rheinland🎉
I just came from a video of a speech of his in 1943 and it’s crazy the difference in just 2 years
Listening to this, and having watched Downfall, all I can think about is his poor children.
Nemmersdorf was the alternative, what would you choose.
@@spaSSkloppe Not at all. He could have made sure his children were escorted to western Germany (American or British sectors).
"Der Angriff Steiner wird das Blatt wenden. Er sollte jeden Moment beginnen."
"Der Angriff Steiners war BEFEHL." xD
@@Golfballtauchen Wer sind sie, dass sie es sich wagen sich meinem Befehl zu widersetzen?! :D
I looked up the commanding general that he is lauding and here’s what Wikipedia had to say:
“Both Wilhelm Burgdorf and Goebbels convinced Hitler that Reymann should be relieved of command. When Reymann chose not to locate his office next to Goebbels's office in the Zoo Tower, Goebbels held that act against him.[3] On 22 April, Hitler relieved Reymann of his command for his defeatism and replaced him…”
So one day after this speech he was replaced, at Goebbels’ insistence. Now that’s a propaganda minister.
great piece of history. dont forget, dont delete!
RUclips: and i took that personally
down with Bolshevism
@@derick3482 1. We're do you see bolshevism?
2. What exactly you mean by bolshevism? Not like the USSR is gone for 30 years feels like the Bolsheviks are down already
Altyazı desteği için teşekkürler
Almanya'nın en kara günleri. Yine de toparlanıp yeniden ayağa kalkmayı başardılar.
Sonuna kadar faşizm
@@burkaykay Amerika'nın yardımıyla (Marshall planı) evet
@@urktklirk9770 The Marshall plan was even offered to Stalin but they did not accept it.
Thank you for posting/translations. You hear people ask "why did the Germans keep fighting when it was hopeless?", because speeches like those of goebbles and the wochenshau was often the only information they heard. We have hindsight and this is often underestimated, we know how it ended. There was no way they could have.
Nonsense
Its propaganda as obvious as clear sky it is. Volkstrum? Inflict heavy causalties on soviet? Heroic high and mighty tone? There goes that
Lots of soldiers already knew at this point, that they couldnt win the war anymore. Some of them were hoping that the Nazi-Leadership would negotiate a peace contract, some of them were in such big fear of soviet occupation, that they fought till the very end. Meanwhile some others didnt stop to fight, because they were afraid of the punishment, they would receive, if they deserted.
Wer Dessertierte oderKontak mit demFeind aufnahm wurde Standrechtlich Erschossen,ich hoffe daß Ihnen dieAuskunft reicht.
A lot easier to hear with headphones but you hear bombs at 0:25 1:44 2:07 2:41
Plus you can hear maybe a live broadcast of what he's saying with a bit of a delay in the background. At 1:57 I swear it sounds like something firing back.
I think those are flak cannons since this was apparently recorded at the Zoo flaktower.
Good catch, you actually hear it about 3 times , it sounds somewhat similar to a flak40 round outgoing which they were using against tanks at the time and the zoo flak tower where he was headquarters did have those as weapons.
Nicht schlecht !! Ich habe damals nur 2 Wochen durchgehalten nachdem ich solche Reden hochgeladen habe...
Gut für dich, meine dauerte nur 2 Tage.
Wo findet man solches historisches material?
@@Thomas-wo9ur woanders ausser youtube
For language translation, click onto the 'CC' icon at the bottom of the video.
Ohhhhh
I thought there were no subtitles
日付が1945年４月21日になってるが、この日に宣伝相ゲッペルスがラジオ演説したという記録がない。おそらく録音だけだろう。
前日からソ連軍の長距離砲がベルリン市内に一斉砲撃を開始していたので、演説の中に砲撃音が聞こえる。
この日ゲッペルスはベルリンの大管区指導者を集めて最後の訓示を与えたが、おそらくその訓示の録音だろうか？
「私は家族をベルリンに呼び寄せており、家を離れない。諸君らも部署を守り、任務を全うせよ。そして、万策尽きた時にはいか
にこの地で死するか決する事になる」
と述べたが、その事を言っているのだろう。前日はヒトラーの誕生日でナチス高官がこの総統官邸地下壕に集まったが、誕生会が
終わると、高官たちは、こぞってベルリンから脱出した（ゲッペルスと家族は残留）
参考文献 広田厚司氏著「ゲッペルスとナチ宣伝戦」より
Exactly.
No huyeron, tenían instrucciones de continuar luchando y salieron para evitar la incomunicación de Berlín con el resto del Reich.
Do you deliver ?
Ist das Japanisch ?
If you listen very closely you can also hear his live speech being heard outside
It's the before and after talk of the magnetic tape, which occurs when the tape is stored for a long time. No speakers from outside. Where else would the noise of battle be?
@@soundinginfluencer can you expand on your comment please? are you trying to say that isn't his his speech being played on speakers?
@@BigDMartialHe wanted to point out that there are on speakers at all. It is just some kind of overlay due to storing the tape.
you're wrong
@@samuelnase9477 Magnetic tape wasn't invented until long after the war ended. During WW-2, they used spools of stainless-steel wire.
As a descendant of those who he referred to as 'Mongolstuermer' I feel kinda weird saying this, but as someone who studies German, these recordings strike me with how clear, understandable an actually beautiful his German sounds. I had the same impression of the recording of Goering's interrogation at Nuremberg. Could be a standard for public speaking + education. Wonder if the native speakers notice that, too.
@untergeher odd is the right word for it. It is a very clear yet unusual pronunciation of a few words. Still you do not hear any obvious dialect. Nevertheless it is a very controlled and maybe on purpose calm speech, in particular to Hitler's or even his speech proclaiming the total war some years earlier.
hard to say it's beautiful when it's full of lies and rah-rah we'll fight to the very end propaganda. Beauty can be found in similes, elegance, simplicity, subtlety, hidden complexity, humor, rhythm or euphony, but not in the twaddle of a highly-intelligent but deranged fanatatic and murderer.
ну просто он сказал правду.. совковые рабы гнались пулеметами и ружьями нквдшников сталина вперед.. эта была как чума.. стая волков что захватывала Германию.. это было ужасно и похоже на конец мира. До 1989 так и было.
He speaks very clearly but both Goebbels and Hitler had a very threatrical way of speaking in public. And Goebbels was extra dramatic in kind of a way one would have expected Marc Anthony doing his "Friends, Romans., Countrymen" speech. The way he stresses certain vowls is very unusual for a politician by modern standards but for a theatrical actor it is still fitting. I think that fascist leaders thought they could create extra charisma by speaking like an actor. Mussolini or Oswald Mosley were also far from casual when giving speeches. Modern politicians might try to sound more casual to give an impression of authenticity to their audience because today we know that the great orators might want to deceive us.
@@beradive9651 Interesting stuff friend. I also thought of the sportpalast (mongol storm - storm out).
Hat seine letzte Rede in unserer Stadthalle gehalten.
Er hat schon damals angefangen zu gendern.
@@ardi5849 Ein Grund mehr den NS abzulehnen.
Ist mir auch aufgefallen
Damn, you can hear bombs falling in the background during his speech. The sounds of the most horrific war in human history.
That is not bombs you are hearing but in fact artillery shells. I am fairly certain, if this date of April 21 is accurate, that the allies had ceased bombing Berlin bc of the closeness of Russian ground forces.
@@PoppysGuitar those were bombs
Sounds of the revenge of Soviet army for the millions civilians, who be killed by nazis.
@mark lucca
I think you are a fool any war is horrific people are dying, flesh is torn to pieces....
@@dortmundgrabenstein9193
I never said wars aren't horrific.
I said WWII was the most horrific war in human history, A hole
Bro has a better mic than me.
Hahahahahaaaaaa.
General Peron was a follower of the ideas of Hitler and Mussollini, but hearing Goebbels speak of "social justice" (one of the leitmotiv's of the Peronists) is truly incredible!
In nazi parlance, social justice simply means state overseen capitalism with guaranteed minimum wages and monetary stability. Add that it would protect veterans, be Jewish free, and there you have the talk for the masses still being uttered as it was in the 30s.
@@jdm2651 seems good enough
Göbbels was a part of the “left” wing of the party, and wanted social justice. Within a purified race, of course.
@@jdm2651 Nazi germany was probably the best country in the world to live in in the 30s
@@jdm2651 In media the word Nazi is used for the National Socialist Workers Party of Hitler. While many even monarchists as well as the military collaborated with the National Socialists for their own reasons, Dr. Goebbels, the intellectual with an artistic bent and a Ph.D., was a committed socialist (not unusual for certain intellectuals then as now). Every entity, be it a citizen or corporation , more or less willingly, becomes a functionary of the state, whether officially nationalized or not.
He would never let the Soviets take him, The amount of German high ranks that commited suicide is absurd, Crazy hearing those bombs get closer and closer the more the video goes on.......
Im historischen Kontext ist diese Rede noch bemerkenswerter als sie ohnehin schon ist. Besonders beim letzten Teil läuft mir ein eisiger Schauer über den Rücken.
im hintergrund hört man die einschläge der sowjetischen granaten!
He called them Mongols, which may seem weird but it was and still is a common slur against Russians. For example, some has called Russia today an "Asiatic Horde". There is an infamous WSJ article showing Putin as Genghis Khan titled "Russia’s Turn to Its Asian Past"
i think he s referring to their great numbers and the destruction they are bringing not their race
To add more info: Russia was once conquered by the Mongols, and once it broke free of Mongol rule, the Russians adopted many of the political and military systems of the Mongols (including the extremely despotic and hierarchical economic system, which didn't end until the mid 1800s).
Plus, much of the population of Siberia had Mongolian features, and were a common sight on the battlefield.
So it was both a racial and cultural slur.
@@mochalo4912 Weird statement since the thing you said originated from racism. Anyway no, Germans thought Russians as "subhuman mongols", Russians for them were not European or white, they were asiatic, this question(are russians white?) is present to this day.
Not weird. Modern Russia was under the control of Tatars who are descendants of the Mongols who tried to defeat the Islamic world but converted. The Mongol admixture is enough to make Russians look a bit funny. Yes, they took notes and modelled a system of governance on, really, their oppressors, arguably 'perfecting' it.
@@dorottagati6883 Germans never made the distinction of "white" and "non-white", only Aryan and non-Aryan. Non-Aryan meant Jewish. There were many supporters of Nazi Germany in Russia, including hundreds of thousands who fought under the Nazi flag.
Germans were not bothered in the slightest by the existence of other races.
He was correct, Berlin was indeed used as a bargaining chip exactly the way he said.
I was a German major and have a degree in German language and culture (that was 46 years ago so don’t expect me to speak like a native like I could back then) and I could understand a good amount of what he said.
When I was in my 4th year of study (nearly everything was taught in German by mid-second year) we were given the option of watching some films (no videos back then) of the Nuremberg rallies. A number of us opted to watch and while interesting at the same time it was unsettling to listen to what they were espousing and watch the crowds hail them and applaud.
@@ashley-fk6dp Es heisst VERlernen! Naturgemaess!
"The eyes of your wives and children are upon you." Interesting contrast with Eisenhower's phrasing.
What was Eisenhower saying?
probably some bullshit about fighting for freeedom and humanity
@@anaranjadisimo bullshit because it was not your stupid family starving or suffocating to death, how about that.
@@anaranjadisimo That's not bullshit
Ist ja Wahnsinn, die Rhetorik ist heute nicht viel anders.
I had to listen to this three times over - he doesn't mention the boss once.
I'm sure that everyone would have been very grateful to him at this point.
Poor kids tho,what an unfortunate time to be born in.
And an unfortunate family. Joseph and Magda Goebbels were shameful parents and human beings.
Yeah life for a kid in 2023 can be really tough. Tell that to our new generations with the highest rates of depression and loneliness than every other generation in world history.
@@theimmortalgrenadier3851 at least theyre not being shot or starving...at least in europe
Conclusion from his speech: It was the Red army who defeated the Nazi, not US army or Royal army.
With the help of US land-lease.
These nazi speeches, Hitler,Georing, Goebbel,etc, are never translated. Knowing what they are saying would be much more better. One gets a little more insight into the mind of the speaker. just sayin.
It says turn on translator English
If you turn subtitles on the words are in English
He speaks really clear and modern
he was a philologist
It’s odd to hear this from the vantage point of decades and be able to feel how half-hearted he sounds, using clichés and tired phrases. He knew it was hopeless.
Still don’t understand what possessed them to move in offense to the east.
The main reason was “Lebensraum” basically in their minds the Slavs were not racially pure enough to be occupying so much land and the Germans wanted to expand their “Aryan” race. Therefore the Germans invaded the ussr to secure this land had they won the Slavs would be killed and German settlers would be moved into the east to reproduce
Do you really wish to know? 🤔
Not only committed suicide, but killed his entire family, too. Even the hardened Russians were shocked when they found the bodies.
this was common. save at least enough bullets for your family and self… what the soviets did to surviving women and children was far worse than being shot.
Were they shocked? Source?
This devil even wasn't able to suicide them and delegated to his wife. What of a sign of a pure bastard!
@@vibovitold No, they weren't lol. The commie leadership also would have done the same if the Japanese invaded from the East and the Germans surrounded Moscow.
It was reported by Hentschel the last and only person in the Bunker when the Russians entered it.
Hitler lost because atom splitting was beyond his imagination
There is a much longer (10mins or so) speech Goebbels gave I believe prior to this one. It could be argued it was his last "major" speech wherein he deploys oratory skills rather than the sober and decidedly somber nature of this speech. If you know of the speech I'm speaking of, if you could upload it, it would be appreciated.
At least there was one thing that he was commendable about, which was his absolute adherence to his own ideas and words. This one is for me
Nie bądź naiwny. Ten śmieć zabił własne dzieci. Był chorym cynikiem wysyłającym własny naród na zgubę do ostatniego dnia.
He murdered his own kids....Maybe being an absolutist isn't very good after all
He was not: he did not fight till the end. Killed his 6 children and he and his wife committed suicide. A coward in the end.
"Social justice" and "happy future" Interesting words. 🤔
2:07
"Burgdorf, was ist los?!
*Woher kommt die Schießerei?!"*
"A Reich of social justice"
I see things haven't changed.
Ich bin ein Berliner
Nice!
Ich ein Krapfen
Mein Beileid.
Ich Rheinländer!
Ein berliner Volksgenosse?
It was a defiant and sobering speech. I only wished that English subtitles of his words were shown.
Tap on the screen. Tap on the icon CC and you get subtitles in English or whatever is your language.
I just want to say, German is a wonderful language
So romantic!
What????!!!!! Lol...😮😮😮
@superaids1510 Nowt like Yorkhire tha naws... Thassle atter come ower and cop odder some
That's true for sure... But the German Goebbels speaks has an accent which is very close to Dutch. Not weird, because Goebbels came from the German city of Rheydt... About 50 kilometers from the Netherlands.... Been there quite often.
@@SunofYork English has it's origins in the same language indeed (Germanic language)
I searched motivational speech on RUclips and got this…. I mean it’s motivating if you take it out of Context?!
If you have an earphones or earpods, you can hear his voice echoing from the speaker outside too. And also explosions
2:22 He calls the Red Army as the Mongols.
No mention of the Führer whatsoever.
This was only 9 days before his suicide and with the evident collapse of the capital looming most people had betrayed Hitler and saved themselves. Himmler and Goering are good examples of this. The only man who truly remained loyal to Hitler in the end was Goebbels. Hitler was largely out of the public spotlight by February anyway
At least he didn't say what Napoleon was reported to have said upon his return from Russia, "Next time we will get it right."
Funny how they NEVER translate ANY of their speeches
Because Goebbels talked the Talk.
You do realise you can put subtitles on yourself😅
Hit the "CC" icon at the bottom of the video. It is in english too!
Read "You Gentiles" (1924) by Maurice Samuel. Also, "Germany Must Perish!" by Kauffman (1940).
HaHa
10 days later he commited suicide, his wife murdered all 5 children. What a " hero".
*6 children
The level of ideologism is impressive, even at the brink of total and massive defeat.
Удивительно хорошая дикция. Плохо знаю немецкий, но многое понятно
вообще ничего не понятно, но очень интересно
Удивительно? Этот чел орал из радио и со сцены порядка 12 лет. Конечно, у него суперская дикция
Where did he declared publicly that he would commit suicide should germany lose the war?
My wife and my children are here in Berlin- UGH!!! 😢
Wonder how the world would look like today if the Allies would have listened to General Patton who said "we defeated the wrong enemy".
There were estimations made by the british if Operation Unthinkable would have gone through. They predicted that the western allies would fail miserably. And again, General Patton was a fucking idiot.
"Mongol-Storm"
This guy wasn' t first Propaganda Minister in human history for no reason...
Amazing. Is it possible to have Goebbels last speech in public in march 45 ?