Convinced that tuning in to Churchill’s soaring speeches was not only a dangerous vice but also a traitorous act, he was determined to crush so-called “radio offenders” at any cost. Still worse, Goebbels knew that growing numbers of Germans had begun listening, too. Every time Churchill took to the airwaves it was as if he were injecting adrenaline-soaked courage directly into the British people. “England cannot hold out forever!” What the Nazis’ minister of propaganda resented even more than the British prime minister’s stubbornness, however, were his powers of persuasion. “When will that creature Churchill finally surrender?” he complained. In the winter of 1940, as Germany’s brutal bombing campaign against Britain dragged on, Joseph Goebbels poured out his frustrations in his diary. THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
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