The Archive · 1939

Dr. Goebbels' Sunday Broadcasts

Political Enlightenm: — For Hitler Youths — Berlin, Nov. 5., Dr. Joseph Goebbels, German

Minister of Propaganda, today broadcast to members of the Hitler Youth: organization gathered in cinemas throughout Germany.

The broadcast was to inaugurate a scheme under which the Hitler Youth will meet in cinemas every Sunday for "political education and enlightenment."

Dr. Goebbels declared: "Because we know why we are fighting, we are immune from all enemy influences. The stupid leaflets which British aircraft have dropped on our villages and towns are unable to do us any harm. There is no need for/us to counter lies with lies. We give nothing but the naked truth;

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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