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].

Joseph Goebbels (“slip of the tongue”/faux pas — he almost said “extermination“), Sportsplast speech (18 February 1943), quoted by Saul Friedländer in, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945 (2007) p.473

No laughter in the video, no shouts either, narrator says: “extermination of the Jews, he almost lets the truth slip out”. | Goebbels – Do you want Total War? TOTALEN KRIEG, Sportsplast Speech, YouTube, 2.3M views, retrieved 2026-04-09. Video source: "Goebbels: The Firebrand" (German title: Der Brandstifter - Joseph Goebbels), series “Hitler's Henchmen” (originally Hitlers Helfer) produced by Guido Knopp and his team at Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (1996) Knopp’s video received all those views and advertising revenue after the link was posted to the Wikipedia Sportsplast article. | The narration of Knopp’s video sounds similar to Alfred Hitchcock’s macabre WWII atrocity propaganda film of typhus/ starvation deaths at a liberated concentration camp with shrunken heads and lampshades, by the British Psychological Warfare Division. | The official transcript of this speech, translated by Randall L. Bytwerk (1998), with commentary about the “slip of the tongue” and Wikipedia. | Germany, in any case, has no intention of bowing to this Jewish threat, but rather one of confronting it in due time, if need be in terms of complete and most radical exterm... exclusion [lit. 'cutoff'] of Jewry. | Deutschland jedenfalls hat nicht die Absicht, sich dieser jüdischen Bedrohung zu beugen, sondern vielmehr die, ihr rechtzeitig, wenn nötig unter vollkommen und radikalster Ausr...—schaltung [Ausrottung Ausschaltung] des Judentums entgegenzutreten. | Sportpalast speech, 18 February 1943. Goebbels begins to say "extermination", but does not complete the word. (This is the version on Wikipedia.) | … ‘slip of the tongue’ by half-saying 'extermina- tion' (Ausrottung) instead of 'exclusion' (Ausschaltung). Far from denying the information current both in Allied propaganda and in the rumour mills in Germany about the systematic murder of the Jews, he takes the opportunity expressly to confirm it. The audience picks up on the hint and responds with loud applause, shouts, and laughter. Two mi

— the official transcript doesn’t mention ausschaltung: Germany, in any event, has no intention of bowing before this threat, but rather intends to take the most radical measures, if necessary, in good time.