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Quotes from Sportsplast speech “slip of the tongue — Joseph Goebbels

1897–1945 Germany

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This thorough evaluation of the Speech, by a German historian, doesn’t mention the faux pas.

Sportsplast speech “slip of the tongue (1943)

Germany in any case has no intention of bowing to this threat, but means to counter it in time and if necessary with the most complete and radical extermi—[correcting himself]—elimination [Ausrott — Ausschaltung]. [Applause. Shouts of "Out with the Jews." Laughter].

Sportsplast speech “slip of the tongue (1943)

No contemporaneous newspapers (German, Allied, neutral, or otherwise) reported on Goebbels’ “Ausrott…-schaltung” slip of the tongue in his 18 February 1943 Sportpalast speech.

Sportsplast speech “slip of the tongue (1943)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joseph Goebbels (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.