German morale faltering

23rd February 1943: British intelligence assesses German attitudes to the war in the wake of Stalingrad

Colourised image of the Nazi gathering at the Sports Palast addressed by Goebbels.

Somewhere between the fanatical Nazis who attended the Sports Palast to hear Goebbels call for Total War and the tiny minority who were actively prepared to speak out lay the majority of ordinary Germans. It was to be expected that they were growing uneasy about the war an…