Berlin Sportpalast - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Postcard of a Sportpalast render (Top). Joseph Goebbels giving his Total War speech in early 1943 (Bottom).

The Berliner Sportpalast was a building in Berlin. It was built in 1910 and demolished in 1973. The Berlin Sportpalast was used for several winter sport venues and also for meetings. It was in the Schönberg section of Berlin. The Sportpalast could hold up to 14,000 people and was for some years the biggest meeting hall in Berlin. The Berlin Sportpalast is well known for speech of Joseph Goebbels in 1943 about the "Total War".

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