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Goebbels quotation

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Post by Mannheim » 28 Feb 2022, 11:49

I am trying to track down the original source of the Goebbels quotation:
"It is not enough to reconcile people more or less to our regime, to move them towards a position of neutrality towards us, we want rather to work on people until they are addicted to us."
I have seen it referenced in a book by David Welch "The Third Reich: Politics and Propaganda" but don't have the book so can't see what his original source is.
Kein Irrtum ist so groß, der nicht seinen Zuhörer hat.

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Post by George L Gregory » 28 Feb 2022, 15:47

Mannheim wrote:
28 Feb 2022, 11:49
I am trying to track down the original source of the Goebbels quotation:
"It is not enough to reconcile people more or less to our regime, to move them towards a position of neutrality towards us, we want rather to work on people until they are addicted to us."
I have seen it referenced in a book by David Welch "The Third Reich: Politics and Propaganda" but don't have the book so can't see what his original source is.
It’s from Goebbels’s speech that he delivered to members of the press on 15 March 1933.


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Post by Mannheim » 01 Mar 2022, 00:24

Thanks for that but I would like to see it in context. Does anyone have a copy of the text, not necessarily the whole speech but the section in which this quotation appears?
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Post by George L Gregory » 01 Mar 2022, 18:22

Mannheim wrote:
01 Mar 2022, 00:24
Thanks for that but I would like to see it in context. Does anyone have a copy of the text, not necessarily the whole speech but the section in which this quotation appears?
Anson Rabinbach, Sander L Gilman, The Third Reich Sourcebook, page 456.

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Re: Goebbels quotation

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Post by Max » 02 Mar 2022, 01:46

Mannheim wrote:
01 Mar 2022, 00:24
Thanks for that but I would like to see it in context. Does anyone have a copy of the text, not necessarily the whole speech but the section in which this quotation appears?
It is not enough for people to be more or less reconciled to our regime, to be persuaded to adopt
a neutral attitude towards us; rather we want to work on people until they have capitulated to us,
until they grasp ideologically that what is happening in Germany today not only must be
accepted but also can be accepted.
https://ghdi.ghi-dc.org/pdf/eng/English ... er_new.pdf
Has some(not all) of the context plus the English and German text sources.
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Post by Mannheim » 02 Mar 2022, 08:34

Thanks, Max. I am still looking for the original German text. One translation has 'until they are addicted to us', the other 'until they have capitulated to us'.
Kein Irrtum ist so groß, der nicht seinen Zuhörer hat.

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Post by ostland » 02 Mar 2022, 09:12

Es genügt nicht, die Menschen mit unserem Regiment mehr oder weniger auszusöhnen, sie zu bewegen, uns neutral gegenüberzustehen, sondern wir wollen die Menschen so lange bearbeiten, bis sie uns verfallen sind, bis sie auch ideenmäßig einsehen, daß das, was sich heute in Deutschland abspielt, nicht nur hingenommen werden muß, sondern auch hingenommen werden kann.
"Merken Sie sich eins; bei uns zu Haus' sind nur die Mannschaften Ostmärker. Die Herren Offiziere sind Österreicher! Servus Doktorchen!"

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Post by Max » 02 Mar 2022, 14:13

bis sie uns verfallen sind,
until they have fallen for us ??
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Post by ostland » 02 Mar 2022, 21:37

No more like, “until they have totally succumbed to our teachings”
"Merken Sie sich eins; bei uns zu Haus' sind nur die Mannschaften Ostmärker. Die Herren Offiziere sind Österreicher! Servus Doktorchen!"

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Post by Mannheim » 02 Mar 2022, 23:40

Excellent! Thanks very much everyone, especially ostland.
Kein Irrtum ist so groß, der nicht seinen Zuhörer hat.

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