I'm looking for the video where Goebbels helds a speech during the funeral service for a nazi
Executive summary
A filmed moment of Joseph Goebbels speaking at a rainy funeral for two SA men on 30 January 1933 is documented in museum collections, and that collection record is the most direct lead to the footage the question seeks [1]. Other archive projects and scholarship catalog Goebbels’s many public addresses — including funeral-era speeches like the Horst Wessel memorial and later mass rallies — which provide context and alternate candidates if the user’s memory conflates events [2] [3].
1. Where the specific funeral speech is documented
A United States Holocaust Memorial Museum catalog entry describes Goebbels speaking “passionately, emotionally, at [the] rainy funeral of two SA men, Hans Eberhard Maikowski and Zavritz, who died 1/30/1933,” quoting lines such as “Deutschland free of Marxism… it was a dream, but now it is a reality,” which indicates the museum holds at least a descriptive record — and likely a film item — of that funeral address [1]. That USHMM record is the clearest primary finding in the supplied reporting that matches a filmed funeral speech by Goebbels.
2. Other funerals and memorial speeches often confused with this footage
Goebbels delivered several early-1930s memorial and rally speeches that have been widely circulated and compared in modern commentary; the Horst Wessel memorial speech (from 1930–1932-era commemorations) is frequently invoked and was used as a rhetorical template in Nazi propaganda, making it a common alternate candidate when people search for “Goebbels at a funeral” footage [3]. Archive collections and translations of Goebbels’s speeches compiled by the German Propaganda Archive / Calvin College offer translated texts and additional dates that can help identify which filmed addresses correspond to which event if the audio or lines are remembered but the occasion is uncertain [2] [4].
3. Broader archival context and where to look next
Major repositories and projects that collect Goebbels’s speeches and related film include institutional archives like the USHMM (which catalogs items with brief descriptions) and documentary collections of translated texts and recordings gathered by academic projects such as the German Propaganda Archive [1] [2]. University and research library finding aids and special collections (for example, the Center for Jewish History and other archival repositories) also list Goebbels materials and may hold film or audio copies referenced in catalog records [5]. These sources are the practical next steps for anyone seeking the original footage: consult the USHMM catalog entry noted above and contact the museum’s collections staff, and search major film and sound archives that catalog Third Reich propaganda material.
4. Why provenance matters and how propaganda shapes interpretation
Any filmed funeral speech by Goebbels is not a neutral historical artifact but an act of political theater produced amid a conscious propaganda campaign; scholars emphasize that Goebbels’s oratory was crafted to mobilize and mythologize martyrs for the movement, and memorial addresses were often staged and reused as propaganda templates [6] [7]. This means institutional descriptions (like the quoted line in the USHMM record) are valuable but must be read with the awareness that the footage served recruitment and legitimization goals, not impartial commemoration [6] [7].
5. Limits of available reporting and recommended practical steps
The supplied reporting establishes the existence of a USHMM catalog entry describing Goebbels speaking at the 30 January 1933 funeral [1] and points to broader speech collections [2] [4], but does not provide a direct downloadable video link in these snippets. To obtain the actual footage, consult the USHMM collection page referenced in the catalog entry and follow the museum’s access procedures; concurrently, search film holdings at major archives and in published documentary collections that preserve Nazi-era newsreels and propaganda films [1] [2]. Where memories conflate events, compare texts and dates from the Calvin archive translations to match lines to recorded footage [2] [4].