In a broadcast to the German people on 2 May 1945 , he became one of the first commentators to refer to an `` Iron Curtain '' across Europe , a phrase he had picked up from an article by Joseph Goebbels and which was later made famous by Winston Churchill .
He was one of the first to talk about an `` Iron Curtain '' coming down across Europe , in a broadcast to the German people on 2 May 1945 , a phrase which he had picked up from an article by Joseph Goebbels , and later used by Winston Churchill in a speech that made the phrase famous .