Section Seven — Total War

The total war effort has become a matter of the entire German people. No one has any excuse for ignoring its demands.

A storm of applause greeted my call on 30 January for total war. I can therefore assure you that the leadership’s measures are in full agreement with the desires of the German people at home and at the front.

The people are willing to bear any burden, even the heaviest, to make any sacrifice, if it leads to the great goal of victory.

DR JOSEF GOEBBELS

Speech in Berlin

18 February 1943

Over a year and a half ago I said this to the Congress: The militarists in Berlin, and Rome and Tokyo started this war, but the massed angered forces of common humanity will finish it.

Today that prophecy is in the process of being fulfilled. The massed, angered forces of common humanity are on the march. They are going forward — on the Russian front, in the vast Pacific area, and into Europe — converging upon their ultimate objectives: Berlin and Tokyo.

I think the first crack in the Axis has come. The criminal, corrupt Fascist regime in Italy is going to pieces. The pirate philosophy of the Fascists and the Nazis cannot stand adversity. The military superiority of the United Nations — on sea and land, and in the air — has been applied in the right place and at the right time.

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

White House Radio Broadcast

28 July 1943

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