Because if you really think about it, in an extremely disturbing and distressing sense, the Nazis won the war. Goebbels admits that militarily, Nazi Germany had lost the war. It was utterly crushed by the might of the world's three strongest powers, the United States, Soviet Union and British Empire. By 1945, the Soviets were rushing across Western Poland/Eastern Germany while the Anglo-American armies crossed the German-French border and invaded the Ruhr.