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Radio broadcast of speeches by German Head of National Socialist People's Welfare, Propaganda Minister and Chancellor during rally at start of Third War Winter Aid Campaign, Berlin, Germany, 3/10/1941. In German
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REEL 1 Speech: introductory music and Sieg Heil. Hilgenfeldt: increase in volunteers. Goebbels: results of previous fundraising; aid to mothers and children; comparison with Soviet Union, 4/1941; membership totallling 14,600,000; contempt for foreign references to social reform. Commentator describes scene. Goebbels: greets Chancellor Adolf Hitler. Hitler: refers to Eastern Front.
REEL 2 Continues: Nazi Party aims and achievements; German-British peace efforts; question of responsibility for war; German military success; Nazi-Soviet pact and consequences; German response to invasion of Finland and Baltic States; break with Soviet Union; meeting with Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov; war with Soviet Union.
REEL 3 Continues: German Army's successes; explanation for official news blackout; refutation of British press claims; reference to captured arms and prisoners; character of fight against Bolshevism; praise for Blitzkrieg; organisation logistics in captured territory; Nazi Party versus Bolshevism and democracy. Hilgenfeldt: thanks Chancellor Adolf Hitler. National Anthem.
