On this day in 1943, the first indications that all was not tickety-boo with Hitler’s Holocaust came to light when Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels delivered a speech at the Berlin Sportpalast to a large but carefully selected audience calling for “total war”. That the German people four years into World War Two were only now being asked to endure those same rations and privations as their British and French counterparts had long suffered is remarkable evidence of Hitler’s determination to mollycoddle his Chosen People. So this total war speech of Goebbels was the first public admission by the Nazi leadership that there were serious cracks in the veneer of the Nazi’s monolithic war machine.

Meanwhile, in the Bavarian Heartland of Hitler’s earliest triumphs, three Munich University students were captured and arrested for their clandestine campaign against the Third Reich. Here at last was evidence that not every German citizen had been quite so Nazified as the outside world had been led to believe.

The tale of their tragic story will be told much sooner than even cynics can imagine. Watch this space…