at the start of the second world war, goebbels ordered to broadcast special announcements at the cinema and on the radio. on 26 may 1940, he published the new weekly newspaper "das reich" ("the imperium") for the first time. in 1942, goebbels took part in the wannsee conference. he was one of the nazi leaders who planned the final solution to kill all the jewish people. in 1943, he gave a well known speech in the berlin sportpalast where he called the germans to support total war. the coup on 20 july 1944 failed, because of goebbels' quick thinking. he broadcast on radio that the coup had failed, before the plan of claus schenk graf von stauffenberg could succeed.