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Goebbels was the public relations genius and voice of the "Third Reich".
Imbued with a deep belief in his "Messiah", the eloquent orator rose to be one of Hitler's most fanatical accomplices.
As the National Socialist Minister for Propaganda, he relentlessly enforced his extreme ideas on the German people.
He was a master of manipulation who used belief, enthusiasm and hatred as a tool to control the "hearts and minds" of its citizens.
As Germany headed towards defeat, he made the "total war" his personal mission.
Goebbels was the public relations genius and voice of the "Third Reich".
Imbued with a deep belief in his "Messiah", the eloquent orator rose to be one of Hitler's most fanatical accomplices.
As the National Socialist Minister for Propaganda, he relentlessly enforced his extreme ideas on the German people.
He was a master of manipulation who used belief, enthusiasm and hatred as a tool to control the "hearts and minds" of its citizens.
As Germany headed towards defeat, he made the "total war" his personal mission.
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00:01Say, dear Papa.
00:03Say, quick, dear Papa.
00:04Dear Papa!
00:05Louder!
00:06Dear Papa!
00:09We congratulate you, dear Herzlich,
00:13on your birthday.
00:15Because you're always away on important things
00:17and often don't know what we're doing,
00:20we want to book you and show you
00:22what's going on in the colorful kingdom.
00:24I'm going to fly.
00:26Your father is at war.
00:28Your mother is in the forest.
00:31The forest is on fire.
00:34My beetle is flying.
00:37Turn it off.
00:38The song.
00:44Today, the radical is just radical.
00:48And the total is just totally enough.
01:29We're sitting in a lounge in front of the Sports Palace.
01:32Our eyes are looking down.
01:35The radio reporter didn't need to claim respect.
01:38He was himself a trusting disciple of his Führer.
01:41He can only write seriously and moderately.
01:45Kindly greeted by the masses by the Führer,
01:48the Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler.
01:51The reporter created a myth and then fell for it.
01:56When the unemployed Dr. Joseph Goebbels
01:58found his cult figure, he felt called by God.
02:02This man was his messiah.
02:09Diary entry, November 6th, 1925.
02:12And those big blue eyes like stars.
02:16He's pleased to see me.
02:18I'm filled with joy.
02:20I'm filled with hope.
02:22And those big blue eyes like stars.
02:25He's pleased to see me.
02:27I'm filled with happiness.
02:29He is there.
02:30He shakes my hand.
02:32Then he talks for half an hour with wit, irony, humour, sarcasm,
02:37earnestness, fire, passion.
02:40This man has all the qualities of a king,
02:43the born champion of the people, the future dictator.
02:52The longing for a strong man.
03:00The yearning for strong words.
03:03His words, yes, his desire,
03:06gives us such a feeling.
03:08The closest employees of the Führer look at him
03:11and find in his face strength and strength and confidence.
03:15A man of truly secular size.
03:20A man of such stature needs someone who will beat the drum for him
03:24and follow him blindly.
03:27Hitler appreciated Goebbels a lot.
03:31He was a very loyal man of the people,
03:34an absolute National Socialist,
03:37and a very skilled man in his role as the Minister of Propaganda.
03:42But I never really heard a subtext of friendship
03:48or just friendly relations.
03:57The leader and his mis-leader, the master and his apprentice.
04:08When little Dr Goebbels grew fearful of rivals for his Führer's favour,
04:12a few words of praise or a paternal pat on the shoulder
04:15were enough to cheer him up.
04:26Ten years ago, you received a flag from me,
04:32which you have now planted in the capital of the Reich
04:36and brought to the banner of the nation in Berlin.
04:42In November 1926,
04:44Hitler had sent the failed writer into the lion's den,
04:47to Red, Berlin,
04:49where the National Socialist Party was languishing.
04:52Gauleiter Goebbels was given the job of seizing power.
05:01The parvenu from right in the Rhineland saw the chance of a lifetime.
05:05He set to work with ambition, agility and total lack of scruple.
05:10He wanted one thing above all, to be noticed.
05:13The movements were the movements of a people's tribune.
05:23There hung some small bodies,
05:29an incomparably large head
05:34and an incredible mouth.
05:38A mouth that cut the face
05:42and what struck me about him
05:46was that he already had something like a puppet.
05:59As a campaigner, Goebbels quickly got down to business.
06:03As a speechmaker, he was still a little wooden.
06:12There would be no hope for Germany
06:17if we did not resist.
06:20He insisted on his own newspaper, Der Angriff, The Assault.
06:24Der Angriff from that time was very devastating.
06:30Such lies, what they allowed themselves.
06:35But the people, a part of the people, believed it
06:40that Goebbels, a large part of the small bourgeoisie
06:45and even the so-called proletariat at the time, could pull them aside.
06:50Goebbels understood that through terror
06:54he could conquer the street if he succeeded.
07:11The Gauleiter welcomed casualties, even deaths.
07:17Martyrs have publicity value.
07:20The death cult as a propaganda weapon, this is where it began.
07:26We may not understand life itself,
07:31but we can decode death.
07:37I have participated in several such funerals,
07:42including the one of Horst Wessel,
07:45whose death is now a prime example
07:49of what can be made of such a thing as propaganda.
07:54Horst Wessel as the son of a priest,
07:58a law-abiding student,
08:01an idealist who fought for the swastika,
08:06who composed a song,
08:09who made his people sing.
08:12He created this Horst Wessel myth,
08:16which lasted until the collapse.
08:24In step with this anthem, the republic marched to its ruin.
08:54If you didn't raise your hand, you were beaten.
08:58If you raised your hand and were recognized as a Jew,
09:01you were beaten three times.
09:03It was a very miserable situation, both with the flag and with this song.
09:25We knew a lot from pictures,
09:29from history books, from the Middle Ages.
09:34But in our time, something unexpected happened.
09:39And in the light of these flames,
09:43Goebbels' face changed again and again.
09:48And not for good.
09:52It had something inhuman in it.
09:57I thought of Goebbels. Who was he?
10:01A journalist who never got a real job.
10:08A car whose books were rejected.
10:14And I thought,
10:17as a journalist,
10:19this often happens in world history,
10:23that an unsuccessful journalist,
10:26an unsuccessful author,
10:29can stand there and burn the books of the competition.
10:34It was a triumph for the little doctor.
10:43He wanted to ignite hatred.
10:45I think he believed in hatred.
10:49Also in his own way.
10:51Goebbels didn't like people.
11:04At ten o'clock he began with God.
11:07He fell down
11:10with a striking force.
11:14But also with an impressive lust for men.
11:24Goebbels' use of violence against Jewish shops.
11:30It was a foretaste of what was in store for people
11:33when racial lunacy became law.
11:36Freedom for the Jewish people!
11:41The Germans were shown the regime in brilliant colour.
11:45Goebbels had the seizure of power re-enacted for the cinema.
11:52A facade.
11:54That is why I am delighted to celebrate the Judicial Festival with you today.
12:03His new propaganda ministry.
12:06Headquarters of brainwashing and mass seduction.
12:11From here he launched a propaganda campaign without equal
12:14which overran the whole country.
12:20The technology was new.
12:27The message was barbaric.
12:32Thought control.
13:03It will be hidden.
13:06The one who wants it to be fulfilled will not notice it at all.
13:26I felt relatively free.
13:30I always thought I could write what I wanted.
13:33But strangely, only years later,
13:36when I read old articles of mine from that time,
13:40I was surprised by the
13:43restrained style in which they were written.
13:46It was as if one had stood firm in the spirit
13:50and expected orders.
13:52But we had, and that was in wise foresight,
13:57disciplined German journalism
14:00in such a way that we did not even need to order in the decisive moments.
14:05A quiet wink is enough to clear our mouths.
14:09Now there is no discussion.
14:14As a result, these journalists became servile heralds of the dictatorship.
14:19Dutifully, they anticipated the party line.
14:24Why is a new parliamentary inquiry being conducted on this occasion?
14:29Every person knows that the German people
14:33are locked up behind the National Socialist Government.
14:39Pictures, in fact, were the most effective tool.
14:42Kilometres of film.
14:44These are Goebbels' real legacy.
14:47Pictures intended to spellbind.
14:53Columns of people.
14:55German brotherhood.
14:58Cult.
15:00Order in a chaotic world.
15:03That was the fatal promise of pictures such as these.
15:13A high office, a small office,
15:16a small office,
15:18a small office,
15:21a high office for the high priest.
15:25Now as much in thrall to his own cult as its creator.
15:32The Third Reich as a continuous national holiday.
15:38The spectacle, the setting,
15:43the master of ceremonies among his followers.
15:51The opinion maker kept a watchful eye on the mood of the people.
15:55His idea of a public opinion survey.
16:01Pressing the flesh went with the job.
16:21How many do you have?
16:23Three.
16:27No need for the minister to be embarrassed about the size of his family.
16:35He had dutifully fulfilled his quota.
16:40A family idol, just like an advertisement.
16:45The little Rhinelander had come a long way
16:48and he wanted everyone to see it.
16:55The Third Reich's model family.
16:59His wife Magda came from a good family.
17:02She was a good catch and a loyal party member.
17:09A couple entirely to Hitler's taste.
17:15What a model husband.
17:20With this woman at his side, he played the man of the world
17:26who enjoyed basking in power.
17:31Status symbols of the 30s.
17:36Among other things, a yacht.
17:39Even he said it was a little expensive.
17:45The Bon Viveur liked travelling to Italy.
17:51In the country of the Duce, his shining example,
17:55he represented Hitler's Reich.
18:03He would have liked to be foreign minister.
18:09Back home, he accepted a country estate
18:12from the city of Berlin.
18:15The Universal Film Studios paid for the renovations.
18:19It was nothing corrupt, just a token of respect.
18:26The family home next door.
18:30A home without a father.
18:37His duty to the fatherland took precedence.
18:43Still, to the outside world, the picture of domestic bliss.
19:07But the model husband was often away from home.
19:11Chasing skirt.
19:14It was typical of Goebbels to find highfalutin words for it.
19:27He did just that unabashedly as the head of German film.
19:35He exploited his position shamelessly,
19:38using starlets to boost his own ego.
19:41He was an adept of the casting couch.
19:52It was always the same story.
20:08I wanted to go for a walk with him.
20:11He liked to drive around in the evening.
20:14What could I do for him?
20:17We drove around the city.
20:20Then I saw a big fence on a highway.
20:23There was a forest.
20:26We drove in and there was a house.
20:29A small bungalow on a hill.
20:32Over a lake.
20:35Someone opened the door.
20:38He made a fire.
20:41He offered me something.
20:44We talked and talked.
20:47Then he made advances.
20:50I found it impossible and frightening.
20:53I had no interest in my career anymore.
20:56He promised me what I would become.
20:59I was so hysterical that he gave up.
21:03He said,
21:06you won't have a career like that.
21:09He said that to me.
21:12It was Friday.
21:15On Sunday night or Monday,
21:18on the way to the studio,
21:21we were all called.
21:24The film was cancelled.
21:33A bone marrow disease in his childhood
21:36had crippled his right foot.
21:39He was excluded from the ranks of the able-bodied,
21:42yet hated nothing more than imperfection.
21:50From his experiences as a disabled person,
21:53he had certain character flaws.
21:56You can say that.
21:59One of them was a desire for revenge.
22:02He had a desire for revenge.
22:05He couldn't forget it.
22:08It haunted him for the rest of his life.
22:11He also had negative traits,
22:14which I absolutely
22:17attribute to his childhood experiences.
22:23His relationship to women
22:26was strongly influenced
22:29by his childhood experiences.
22:32It had an effect on his character.
22:57I loved his love.
23:00He loved me so much
23:03that I fell in love with him.
23:10Unfortunately,
23:13he told his wife
23:16that the next day
23:19she went to Hitler
23:22and told him everything differently.
23:25He swore to me
23:28and lied to me.
23:31Hitler asked Goebbels
23:34to break up with me.
23:39I'm afraid we won't be able to meet at the Hopi.
23:42How do you know that?
23:45No, not forever.
23:48I'll talk to my father.
23:51Hitler called everyone
23:54and asked Goebbels
23:57to break up with me.
24:00Goebbels wanted to thank me
24:03and wanted to go to Japan
24:06as a consul
24:09and told me that if I had to sell ties
24:12in Japan, he didn't care
24:15but he wanted to thank me.
24:18Hitler had a terrible fit
24:21and needed Goebbels
24:24because he couldn't accept it.
24:27He made such a fuss
24:30and then he said,
24:33try to live together
24:36for three months
24:39and if after three months
24:42you tell me that you can't live together
24:45I'll divorce you.
24:49Of course he didn't mean it like that.
24:52He just wanted to buy time.
24:58It's really hard for me, Evi.
25:01Eight long weeks.
25:04Time will pass faster than you think.
25:18Hitler's return to Dätenland crisis
25:21was simply out of the question.
25:30Alarmed, the lover bowed to his master's orders.
25:33He valued his goodwill
25:36more than the love of any woman.
25:39Hitler was freezing cold.
25:42Goebbels gave the order
25:45to return Hitler to Prague,
25:48to Czechia.
25:51That's what happened.
25:54And Hitler, Goebbels,
25:57from that moment on
26:00reported to his enemies,
26:03Ribbentrop and others.
26:06He was so depressed
26:09that he was no longer invited
26:12to the usual meals
26:15in the Reich Chancellery.
26:18The Führer really put him
26:21in the background.
26:24And in this phase I noticed
26:27how dependent he was
26:30like the alcoholic from a bottle.
26:34He longed to be recharged
26:37by the Führer again.
26:42His chance came unexpectedly
26:45in November 1938.
26:48On the streets of Munich
26:51the old fighters were commemorating
26:54Hitler's failed putsch
26:57when the news came in
27:01And now Goebbels had an opportunity
27:04to remind himself
27:07and to show off
27:10in front of the Führer.
27:13And he alarmed his Berlin SS
27:16who was completely on Goebbels.
27:19He had a Berlin Robert with him
27:22and freed the street
27:25and wanted to show
27:28that Goebbels was the 100% one
27:31and let these people
27:34and Goebbels
27:37go to the Jews.
27:41November 10th, 1938.
27:44I went to the party reception
27:47at the old town hall.
27:50A huge gathering.
27:53I explained the situation
27:56and the people's anger.
27:59The right decision.
28:02I gave the relevant orders
28:05to the police and the party.
28:08Then I spoke briefly to the party leaders.
28:11Thunderous applause.
28:14Everyone rushed straight to the telephones.
28:17Now the people would act.
28:20I was about to return to my hotel
28:23We had it doused only where it threatened other buildings.
28:26Apart from that, we let it burn.
28:29As I drove back to the hotel,
28:32the window panes were rattling. Bravo! Bravo!
28:35Stage managed public rage.
28:38He had a knack for it.
28:41With this barbaric action,
28:44he marked himself as the most radical Jew-hater.
28:47I think Hitler and Goebbels
28:50knew that
28:53there was a Jewish conspiracy
28:56in the world.
28:59The Jews were
29:02a part of the population
29:05that had to be destroyed.
29:08I think it was clear from the first moment.
29:11He said in detail
29:14that the Jews of the war
29:17did not take it seriously.
29:20There was a Goebbels speech
29:23in which he said,
29:26the Jewish press
29:29because he was the lord of the press
29:32makes us ridiculous
29:35and I tell you,
29:38Goebbels said,
29:41the day will come
29:44the day will come
29:47when the Jews will stop laughing.
29:50Is this a program
29:53for Buchenwald and Auschwitz?
29:56I'm not sure.
29:59You should bow.
30:02Once our patience is over
30:05and then the Jews will be stopped
30:08from speaking lies.
30:11An agitator like that was indispensable
30:14to the head of state.
30:20Hitler also needed him
30:23to beat the drum for war
30:26but he kept his plans for invasion
30:29from his henchmen.
30:32In Berlin,
30:35the greatest military parade ever seen.
30:39I am convinced
30:42that peace in Europe must be maintained.
30:45I am still convinced
30:48that if there was a war
30:51it would be the greatest misfortune for the world
30:54and the victors and the defeated
30:57would only reap the worst misfortune.
31:08Hitler was back into third place.
31:16While Hitler's Wehrmacht overran Poland
31:19Goebbels delivered the musical accompaniment
31:22A War of Words.
31:29This is how it is
31:32when the German air force strikes.
31:36The innocent were the first to be hit.
31:39The armchair warrior Goebbels was impressed
31:42that they were getting down to business
31:45without regard for reputation
31:48or international opinion.
31:53On a trip to Poland
31:56he looked for validation of his racial hatred.
32:00November 2, 1939.
32:03A trip through the ghetto.
32:06We got out and inspected everything closely.
32:09It's indescribable.
32:12They aren't humans, they're animals.
32:15This is therefore not a humanitarian task
32:18but a surgical one.
32:21One must make incisions here,
32:24quite radical ones.
32:29We had to look at Jewish images
32:32of Jewish faces.
32:39When it became bright again
32:42after this performance
32:45he said he couldn't imagine
32:48these Jews coming back to us.
32:51If we were to lose the war
32:54it would be unimaginable.
32:57But my wife and I
33:00talked about it from time to time
33:03that we wouldn't want to experience it again.
33:06We'll deal with it.
33:13He really insulted them.
33:16Look at this.
33:19The real criminal face.
33:22In a very strange, excited form.
33:28Against people like these
33:31Goebbels films incited hatred.
33:34Pictures of the enemy.
33:43And these are the heroes.
33:46Uncle Rommel with the family.
33:49A modern general.
33:52A careerist like Goebbels himself.
33:55Goebbels was the first to make an idol of Rommel.
33:58Victories are the best propaganda.
34:05In their wake Goebbels' scepticism
34:08about a war on two fronts faded.
34:11His steadfast belief in Hitler's genius
34:14banished all his doubts.
34:18The civilian with no military service
34:21played the commander.
34:25In the Second World War
34:28he tried to make up for everything
34:31that had been denied him in the first.
34:37His great moment came in June 1941.
34:40This time he was informed.
34:48This time he had an anthem at the ready.
34:54This time he was allowed to declare war.
34:57The invasion of the Soviet Union.
35:00Hitler claimed that Moscow was plotting
35:03with Britain against Germany.
35:07A war of annihilation masquerading
35:10as a fight for freedom.
35:17Goebbels was in his element.
35:20He sold the Angriff, the war of assault,
35:23to Hitler.
35:26Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story.
35:36This hate campaign revealed the true face
35:39of Dr Goebbels,
35:42a complex ridden herrenmensch on the rampage.
35:53Is Bolshevism the declaration of war
35:56against the culture itself
35:59led by Jews?
36:03This man murders with words.
36:11Tour of inspection at a prisoner of war camp.
36:19Even in the face of suffering
36:21compassion is foreign to him.
36:23In the shadow of war he pushes on
36:25as the plan to murder the Jews is executed.
36:46August 20th, 1941.
36:48I'm starting to become active in the Jewish question.
36:51As the Fuhrer has allowed me to introduce
36:53an insignia for the Jews,
36:55I think I shall be able to carry out
36:57the necessary reforms very quickly
36:59and without legal documentation.
37:03If this badge is worn by every Jew,
37:06very soon they won't dare show their faces
37:08in our town centers.
37:10They'll be pushed out of sight.
37:18This is what a Jew looks like.
37:21It's pretty exhausting.
37:24Of course there were people
37:26who looked at me with hatred.
37:29But there were also people
37:31who looked at me with kindness.
37:33There were even people who secretly
37:35put something in my pocket
37:37that I didn't get as a Jew.
37:40This badge was a terrible
37:45embellishment of the Middle Ages.
37:49The Jews were treated the same way.
37:52I think this has a lot to do with him,
37:55with his disability.
37:57He also fell.
37:59It would have been very foolish
38:01if we had already dealt with the Jews
38:03before the takeover of power,
38:05what we intended to do with them.
38:09That was very good.
38:14It was very good and purposeful
38:16that at least a part of the Jews thought
38:18it wouldn't get so bad.
38:20They talk a lot,
38:22but we'll find out what they'll do.
38:29Goebbels knew only too well
38:31where the Jews' journey would end.
38:37He had been initiated into Hitler's plans
38:40and approved of them.
38:45March 27th, 1942.
38:48The Jews are being deported to the east
38:50from our territory in Poland.
38:52I will not describe here the barbaric procedure
38:54which is used.
38:56Very little is left of the Jews afterwards.
38:59Roughly speaking, one can say
39:01that 60% of them must be liquidated
39:04and only 40% can be used for work.
39:07The Jews are receiving their punishment.
39:09It may be barbaric, but they fully deserve it.
39:15I don't know if he had the intention
39:17to make the Jews second-class citizens.
39:20He really wanted to crush them with his words.
39:29The further the tide of war turned,
39:31the more words replaced the declining impact of weapons.
39:41After Stalingrad, the new catchphrase was
39:43readiness to make sacrifices.
39:53Now the message was in every respect total.
40:14...but much more those who, at the right time,
40:17if necessary,
40:19opposed the completely radical
40:21expulsion of Judaism.
40:24Extermination of the Jews.
40:27He almost let the truth slip out.
40:30Goebbels in the sports palace.
40:32He wanted public approval for a total war
40:34on the home front as well.
40:36The pinnacle of his speeches,
40:38painstakingly rehearsed.
40:40To bring a people to the point of madness.
41:10...and to cover our German homeland with bombs.
41:14This raised the anger in the audience.
41:21And when the questions arose,
41:23when the brawling started,
41:25it was no longer under control.
41:31Do you want total war?
41:34Yes!
41:41We were as horrified as it was possible
41:44to put this sports palace,
41:47which was filled to the brim,
41:50into such a frenzy.
41:53On this question,
41:55do you want total war?
41:58Yes! Yes!
42:00This screaming.
42:02It was a horrible experience for us.
42:05We were stunned.
42:08And someone from the people
42:10who were there with us said,
42:12clap, you have to clap.
42:14Do we want it?
42:16If necessary, total and radical,
42:19than we can even imagine it for us today.
42:23Yes! Yes!
42:25I could not imagine
42:27what could become even more total.
42:30Should you not sleep at all
42:32or get nothing to eat
42:35and all the men were dead
42:37and the civilians too.
42:39I could not imagine
42:41any increase.
42:43It was terrible enough.
42:50That night Goebbels said,
42:52if I had ordered them to jump
42:54from the roof of a tall building,
42:56they'd have done it.
42:59What total war meant,
43:01people soon found out.
43:05No one could escape the call.
43:13The firestorm had long since returned
43:16to where it had first been ignited.
43:29Germany's towns were dying.
43:31He was flourishing.
43:37He thrived on crises.
43:39The firebrand knew
43:41how to bolster flagging spirits.
43:43With no victories to offer,
43:45he urged patience and perseverance.
43:51At least he dared to show his face on the streets,
43:54unlike Hitler.
43:57Publicly, Goebbels raised hopes of a miracle.
44:04Privately, he doubted
44:06if the war could still be won.
44:12It wasn't total enough for him.
44:15The commander-in-chief still disregarded
44:18the plans of his amateur strategist.
44:26The fact that this man
44:28flew into the headquarters
44:30with big plans
44:32and came back
44:34was like a little poodle.
44:37He just couldn't recover from it.
44:42I think his role was overestimated.
44:47His role changed rapidly
44:49after the attempted assassination of Hitler.
44:53Goebbels was ruthless
44:55in crushing the coup in Berlin.
44:57The devoted servant was now
44:59back in favour with his master.
45:01Total favour.
45:06As general plenipotentiary
45:08for the mobilisation of total war,
45:10Goebbels had his men comb Germany
45:12to find yet more people
45:14to send to the war.
45:22He managed just before the end.
45:26The last call-up to save a murderous Reich.
45:30Old men.
45:35Boys.
45:42Now at last he could be a soldier too,
45:45but the arsenal was empty.
45:49Instead of wonderful weapons,
45:51he had desperate lies.
46:22The enemy will fall before him.
46:29In my opinion,
46:31in my conviction
46:33that we are waging a war
46:35that we will win,
46:37I always went out stronger.
46:39I always built something up.
46:41Because he said what others
46:43had said before,
46:45be it in the Hitler Youth
46:47or in such meetings.
46:49He confirmed that.
46:51And because he said it,
46:53it had to be true.
46:55In a way, we were pretty
46:57one-sided believers.
47:19And that is why
47:21we are
47:23once again
47:25a wonderful state.
47:31And I know
47:35that we
47:37will see
47:39each other
47:41again.
47:45Words of encouragement
47:47to the end.
47:49A visit to the front
47:51in Lubanya.
48:09The lie used the truth
48:11to appear credible.
48:17You have to bring
48:19victims,
48:21and it depends
48:23on your commitment.
48:25I can't guarantee anything,
48:27I can't promise anything.
48:29This madness seduced,
48:31above all,
48:33those who had never known
48:35anything else.
48:37Their trust was abused.
48:39This Germany is not
48:41to be broken down
48:43or thrown down.
48:45Not only his men,
48:47but also his women,
48:49his children are heroes.
48:51In the last hours,
48:53the youth had risen
48:55to fight and to die.
48:57It was a beast of a man.
48:59And he was to blame for everything.
49:01If he hadn't led
49:03this propaganda
49:05so well
49:07and entrenched the people,
49:09maybe some people
49:11would have come up with
49:13the worst possible
49:15plans.
49:17We will all be slaves.
49:19Either the German people
49:21will be exterminated
49:23or we will be slaves.
49:25We will only work for the Russians
49:27and the Americans and the English.
49:29We have no right to exist
49:31in the world.
49:33We have to defend ourselves.
49:35That's how it was.
49:37And that's how
49:39people stood up to him.
49:42We would rather work our hands
49:44to the bone
49:46and fight to the last breath
49:48before we admit
49:50that the enemy,
49:52the German state,
49:54is using our will.
49:58This is how Berlin
50:00became a front city.
50:02The Mongol storm
50:04will and must be broken
50:06at the walls of our city.
50:08Provocateurs
50:10or insolent foreigners
50:12are to be arrested immediately
50:14or even better,
50:16to be made harmless.
50:18I will stay with my employees
50:20in Berlin.
50:22My wife and my children
50:24are here and will stay here.
50:26He may have spoken for five minutes
50:28and there was an impact
50:30of a heavy artillery grenade
50:32in the garden of the house.
50:34The explosion was so strong
50:36that not only all the windows
50:38in my room were destroyed
50:40and we were thrown
50:42onto the desk,
50:44but also wall parts
50:46and mortars.
50:48I saw how he
50:50took his manuscript
50:52and read on
50:54while with his right hand
50:56he swept away
50:58the dust, glass and mortars
51:00from the manuscript
51:02and didn't let himself be disturbed.
51:08While Stalin's soldiers
51:10were already in the heart of Berlin,
51:12in Hitler's bunker, Goebbels
51:14was closer to his master
51:16than ever.
51:22And he was desperate
51:24to follow him to the grave.
51:26Suddenly Goebbels came in
51:28and I was really
51:30shocked how he looked.
51:32He was pale,
51:34with tears in his eyes
51:36and he came to me
51:38and apparently there was
51:40no one else
51:42he could pour his heart out to.
51:44He said,
51:46the Führer wants me
51:48to leave him,
51:50to stay in Berlin,
51:52to take over a position
51:54in the future government.
51:56I can't do that.
51:58He was desperate
52:00because he felt
52:02like the most faithful
52:04and he believed
52:06there was no greater proof
52:08for his loyalty
52:10than to die with Hitler.
52:14That led to murder.
52:16From the idyll at home,
52:18Goebbels had his children
52:20brought to the bunker.
52:22Honestly,
52:24it's time to say goodbye.
52:26My daddy
52:28is my last comrade.
52:32There was of course
52:34a drama in the cellar.
52:36When it was said
52:38the children stay here,
52:40women came,
52:42kitchen staff,
52:44office staff,
52:46they came and
52:48knelt on their knees
52:50and prayed for the children.
52:52And then came the day
52:54when Frau Goebbels
52:56brought the children back to death.
52:58They were all dressed in white,
53:00their hair combed.
53:04And then they left.
53:20THE END
53:50THE END
53:52THE END
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53:56THE END
53:58THE END
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54:02THE END
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54:06THE END
54:08THE END
54:10THE END
54:12Suddenly I see Goebbels
54:14rubbing his hands
54:16and there was a song
54:18he said a new song
54:20We march through Berlin
54:22We fight for Adolf Hitler
54:24he said
54:26We march through Berlin
54:28We march through Berlin
54:30You have to imagine
54:32it was something macabre,
54:34something horrible
54:36and I thought to myself
54:38this heater,
54:40he doesn't give a rest.
54:48THE END