Hitler's People: A Portrait of the Third Reich

Episode 2

Total War 1943-1944

On 18 February 1943 Joseph Goebbels Held His Notorious Total War Speech About Being Faithful To The Last At The Berlin Sportpalast. But The Reichs Defeat In Stalingrad A Few Weeks Earlier Shook The Faith Of The Germans In The Final Battle Which Saw Germany Crumbling More And More Every Day. Hitlers Armies Had Sounded The Retreat And After The Landing Of The Allies On 8 June 1944 At The Latest The German Defeat Was Now Only A Matter Of Time. Yet Many Germans Remained Staunched Supporters Of Their Führer.