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A Simple Primer On "War Propaganda" From An Unexpected Source
Stop us when this becomes familiar:
The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan. As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided, the effect will piddle away, for the crowd can neither digest nor retain the material offered. In this way the result is weakened and in the end entirely cancelled out.
Source: Chapter 6, "War Propaganda" of Adolf Hilter's 1926 "Mein Kampf"
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Speaking of false flags, press complicity in starting wars, and general psychopathy...last night an interesting program about the Roosevelts, with the U.S.S. Maine blowing up in Havana harbor conveniently timed with Hearst/Pullitzer's yellow journalism and Teddy's insatiable desire for blood, gore and glory. One "expert" went so far as calling dear Teddy an Imperialist and a "Killer"! At least he actually went and put his neck on the line, even if it was for an abhorrent cause. I'd settle for a regiment of modern day Rough Riders consisting of Bush, Cheney, Clinton x2, Obama, Holder, Clapper, Alexander, etc., etc., etc.
It’s not just the unwashed masses who get duped by those in power. I finally got around to reading the book, Double Cross, by Ben Macintyre. I highly suggest it for anyone who doubts the ability of creative and imaginative people to deceive others on a grand, country-sized scale; even their enemies of similar intelligence and power and even during times of intense scrutitiny.
Keep in mind, the described events in this excellent documentary all took place more than 70 years ago during WWII. There was no internet, cloud storage, cellular network, U-Tube, Facebook, Twitter, satellite surveillance, or computer automated analysis to assist the composers and conductors of this Grand Deception. All they had to work with was the postal system, wireless radio, homing pigeons, and a relatively small cadre of willing spies and deceivers.
Unfortunately, all the access and control of information resources the intelligence community has today only increases the possibility they will used it subversively. In fact, I can’t imagine one plausible reason why they wouldn’t be orchestrating even Grander Deceptions all the time.
As long as minds remain feeble and malleable, propaganda will always have a great place to reside and flourish.
https://twitter.com/Zhitnipalzhi/status/511568432215891969/photo/1
The quote is so spot on about Putin regime propoganda!
Perfect!
Right.... President Putin is so bad he is making the Ukraine Fuerher bomb and kill his own citizens.
Funny crowd these Nazi's were: lots of moaning about internationalist Jews, yet 90% of the German war machine was directed against the Russians. The Ruski's lost 30 million people if I remember correctly.
Against the USSR in fact created by Jewish Bolshevism........do you get your history from milk cartons ?
So you kill 30 million of their citizens?
One word: OBEY.
It doesn't help to go into details about boots on necks and skulls cracked like melons. There's a certain elegance in simplicity, n'est-ce pas?
Joeseph Goebbels, the Third Reich's propaganda minister, put the idea more succinctly: A convoy is only as fast as the slowest ship.
From what I can see he was right. Most amerikans have a memory of about 3 - 5 days. And the government tries to keep the message to one line or less.
For instance many I chat with already forgot the two Malaysian airliners. One actually called me a liar about WTC 7 imploding. According to him, it never did. These instances are very common. Forgot YelloCake, DU, Seal Team 6, and some even think OBL is still alive.
Either it's the food, the water or in the air but whatever is causing it is scary. Sometimes I wish I were like them. Life would be so much simpler.
I hear ya bro, but to be honest, in many ways we are missing alot of the Truth. It seems the more I know, the more I don't know.
"The ideology of the Volk had its own female aesthetic. Beauty—according to this ideology—was a product of a healthy diet and athleticism, not of cosmetics. German girls and women were not supposed to paint their fingernails, pluck their eyebrows, wear lipstick, dye their hair, or be too thin. Nazi leaders condemned the entire cosmetics boom of the 1920s as Jewish commerce, as a cheapening of German femininity that turned women into prostitutes and led to racial degeneration. German men should mate with the girl next door, not the urbanite or the Hollywood-style vamp. A young woman’s natural glow should radiate from physical exertion, from being outdoors, and, in its most celebrated form, from pregnancy."
— Wendy Lower, Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields, 2013
Wonder if Barry O's book will be valuable in the future?
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"very few points" for average German @ 1933. No more than one point for average American @ 2014.
Mein Kamp
Chapter 6
War Propaganda
In the original German
And a good English translation:
http://www.radioislam.org/historia/hitler/mkampf/eng/index.htm
5 minute read
straightforward and to the point
If you read Mein Kampf you can see he considered the British to have superior propaganda and far more effective than anything Germany produced in WW1.
Goebbels used Crystallizing Public Opinion by Edward Bernays to improve German propaganda, but the British and American advertising industry were able to build a lead in Propaganda which exists today - though largely to brainwash their own populace
World War I with its 31,508,200 persons dead, wounded or missing was not enough: the warmongers and their propagandists for war would claim as additonal 52,199,262 deaths alone in World War II (USA total dead was 500,000). These figures are from the BBC; others may differ slightly.
Ralph Raico, from same article below, describes how the demonization of peoples and the use of horrific false flags were used to fan the flames of US entry into WWII:
Franklin Roosevelt repeatedly deceived the American people during the period before Pearl Harbor. . . . He was like a physician who must tell the patient lies for the patient’s own good. . . . The country was overwhelmingly noninterventionist to the very day of Pearl Harbor, and an overt attempt to lead the people into war would have resulted in certain failure and an almost certain ousting of Roosevelt in 1940, with a complete defeat of his ultimate aims.
Churchill himself never bothered to conceal Roosevelt’s role as co-conspirator. In January, 1941, Harry Hopkins visited London. Churchill described him as “the most faithful and perfect channel of communication between the President and me . . . the main prop and animator of Roosevelt himself”:
In 1976, the public finally learned the story of William Stephenson, the British agent code named “Intrepid,” sent by Churchill to the United States in 1940. Stephenson set up headquarters in Rockefeller Center, with orders to use any means necessary to help bring the United States into the war. With the full knowledge and cooperation of Roosevelt and the collaboration of federal agencies, Stephenson and his 300 or so agents “intercepted mail, tapped wires, cracked safes, kidnapped, . . . rumor mongered” and incessantly smeared their favorite targets, the “isolationists.” Through Stephenson, Churchill was virtually in control of William Donovan’s organization, the embryonic U. S. intelligence service.
Churchill even had a hand in the barrage of pro-British, anti-German propaganda that issued from Hollywood in the years before the United States entered the war. Gore Vidal, inScreening History, perceptively notes that starting around 1937, Americans were subjected to one film after another glorifying England and the warrior heroes who built the Empire. As spectators of these productions, Vidal says: “We served neither Lincoln nor Jefferson Davis; we served the Crown.” A key Hollywood figure in generating the movies that “were making us all weirdly English” was the Hungarian migr and friend of Churchill, Alexander Korda. Vidal very aptly writes:
For those who find disagreeable today’s Zionist propaganda, I can only say that gallant little Israel of today must have learned a great deal from the gallant little Englanders of the 1930s. The English kept up a propaganda barrage that was to permeate our entire culture . . . Hollywood was subtly and not so subtly infiltrated by British propagandists.
While the Americans were being worked on, the two confederates consulted on how to arrange for direct hostilities between the United States and Germany. In August, 1941, Roosevelt and Churchill met at the Atlantic conference. Here they produced the Atlantic Charter, with its “four freedoms,” including “the freedom from want,” a blank-check to spread Anglo American Sozialpolitik around the globe. When Churchill returned to London, he informed the Cabinet of what had been agreed to. Thirty years later, the British documents were released. Here is how the New York Times reported the revelations:
On July 15, 1941, Admiral Little, of the British naval delegation in Washington, wrote to Admiral Pound, the First Sea Lord: “the brightest hope for getting America into the war lies in the escorting arrangements to Iceland, and let us hope the Germans will not be slow in attacking them.” ...
But Churchill did not neglect the “back door to war,” embroiling the United States with Japan as a way of bringing America into the conflict with Hitler. Sir Robert Craigie, the British ambassador to Tokyo, like the American ambassador Joseph Grew, was working feverishly to avoid war. Churchill directed his foreign secretary, Anthony Eden, to whip Craigie into line:
Churchill threw his influence into the balance to harden American policy towards Japan, especially in the last days before the Pearl Harbor attack...
Great read.
A lot of the same items I have read during my life-long study of WW2.
Another good book is "Churchill and Secret Service."
Of course, it was FDR himself who clued anyone in who was paying attention with is famous quote that "..you can be sure if anything happens in politics it is not by (chance) accident."
Thanks, lakecity, for the references. And as fate would have it, Raico has another big one on Lew Rockwell today entitled Who Started World War I?
Intermixing his profound knowledge of history, Raico, in this review of The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, by Christopher Clark (HarperCollins, New York 2013, 697pp.) concludes:
“Clark demolishes another myth, that of the delirious throngs. ‘In most places and for most people’ the news of general mobilization came as ‘a profound shock.’ Especially in the countryside, where many of the soldiers would perforce be drawn from. Peasants and peasants’ sons would furnish the cannon fodder, much of it in France and Germany, the vast bulk of it in Austria-Hungary and Russia. In tens of thousands of villages there reigned ‘a stunned silence,’ broken only by the sound of ‘men, women, and children’ weeping.
“It was into this Witches’ Sabbath that, from 1914 on, Woodrow Wilson slowly but steadily led the unknowing American people.”
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/09/ralph-raico/who-started-world-war-i/
Is it time now to move on from Hitler and zero in on Churchill, the greatest war propagandist of all time?
Rethinking Churchill by Ralph Raico
EXCERPTS regarding Hitler (the entire article is a must read):
…History outdid herself when she cast Churchill as the adversary in the duel with Hitler. It matters not at all that in his most famous speech “we shall fight them on the beaches . . . we shall fight them in the fields and in the streets” he plagiarized Clemenceau at the time of the Ludendorff offensive that there was little real threat of a German invasion or, that, perhaps, there was no reason for the duel to have occurred in the first place. For a few months in 1940, Churchill played his part magnificently and unforgettably.
…. That Churchill was a racist goes without saying, yet his racism went deeper than with most of his contemporaries. It is curious how, with his stark Darwinian outlook, his elevation of war to the central place in human history, and his racism, as well as his fixation on “great leaders,” Churchill’s worldview resembled that of his antagonist, Hitler.
So far Churchill had been engaged in politics for 30 years, with not much to show for it except a certain notoriety. His great claim to fame in the modern mythology begins with his hard line against Hitler in the 1930s. But it is important to realize that Churchill had maintained a hard line against Weimar Germany, as well. He denounced all calls for Allied disarmament, even before Hitler came to power. Like other Allied leaders, Churchill was living a protracted fantasy: that Germany would submit forever to what it viewed as the shackles of Versailles.
…Churchill had been a strong Zionist practically from the start, holding that Zionism would deflect European Jews from social revolution to partnership with European imperialism in the Arab world. Now, in 1936, he forged links with the informal London pressure group known as The Focus, whose purpose was to open the eyes of the British public to the one great menace, Nazi Germany. “The great bulk of its finance came from rich British Jews such as Sir Robert Mond (a director of several chemical firms) and Sir Robert Waley-Cohn, the managing director of Shell, the latter contributing 50,000.” The Focus was to be useful in expanding Churchill’s network of contacts and in pushing for his entry into the Cabinet.
Though a Conservative MP, Churchill began berating the Conservative governments, first Baldwin’s and then Chamberlain’s, for their alleged blindness to the Nazi threat. He vastly exaggerated the extent of German rearmament, formidable as it was, and distorted its purpose by harping on German production of heavy-bombers. This was never a German priority, and Churchill’s fabrications were meant to demonstrate a German design to attack Britain, which was never Hitler’s intention.
…In 1940, Churchill at last became Prime Minister, ironically enough when the Chamberlain government resigned because of the Norwegian fiasco which Churchill, more than anyone else, had helped to bring about. As he had fought against a negotiated peace after the fall of Poland, so he continued to resist any suggestion of negotiations with Hitler. Many of the relevant documents are still sealed after all these years but it is clear that a strong peace party existed in the country and the government. It included Lloyd George in the House of Commons, and Halifax, the Foreign Secretary, in the Cabinet. Even after the fall of France, Churchill rejected Hitler’s renewed peace overtures. This, more than anything else, is supposed to be the foundation of his greatness.
...Lloyd George, Halifax, and the others were open to a compromise peace because they understood that Britain and the Dominions alone could not defeat Germany. After the fall of France, Churchill’s aim of total victory could be realized only under one condition: that the United States become embroiled in another world war.
…A moral postulate of our time is that in pursuit of the destruction of Hitler, all things were permissible. Yet why is it self-evident that morality required a crusade against Hitler in 1939 and 1940, and not against Stalin? At that point, Hitler had slain his thousands, but Stalin had already slain his millions. In fact, up to June, 1941, the Soviets behaved far more murderously toward the Poles in their zone of occupation than the Nazis did in theirs. Around 1,500,000 Poles were deported to the Gulag, with about half of them dying within the first two years. As Norman Davies writes: “Stalin was outpacing Hitler in his desire to reduce the Poles to the condition of a slave nation.” …
…Churchill’s aim was not simply to save world civilization from the Nazis, but, in his words, the “indefinite prevention of their [the Germans'] rising again as an Armed Power.”
Little wonder, then, that Churchill refused even to listen to the pleas of the anti-Hitler German opposition, which tried repeatedly to establish liaison with the British government. Instead of making every effort to encourage and assist an anti-Nazi coup in Germany, Churchill responded to the feelers sent out by the German resistance with cold silence. Reiterated warnings from Adam von Trott and other resistance leaders of the impending “bolshevization” of Europe made no impression at all on Churchill. A recent historian has written: “by his intransigence and refusal to countenance talks with dissident Germans, Churchill threw away an opportunity to end the war in July 1944.” To add infamy to stupidity, Churchill and his crowd had only words of scorn for the valiant German officers even as they were being slaughtered by the Gestapo…
Ralph Raico, former Professor Emeritus in European history at Buffalo State College is a senior fellow of the Mises Institute.. Raico received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where his adviser was Friedrich Hayek.)
http://www.lewrockwell.com/1970/01/ralph-raico/man-of-blood/
Both FDR and Churchill were simply puppets of what Hitler called "the international bankers" at the time.
After sucking the lifeblood of the productive people for decades thru the too-many too-huge entitlement titties, I welcome the parasite proletariat hordes being consumed as shrapnel buffers.
Hitler and his ilk understood the power of Myths as ready-made propaganda memes
see http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2008/05/myths-memes-and-boredom.html
Myth of the Roman Empire : see
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2006/11/roman-empire-and-nazis-hitler-was-...
Effective propaganda can drive suicide troops
All tried propaganda to create suicide troops , but it never gelled. See
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2011/03/suicide-troops-causes-state-instab...
But hard fact is the best propaganda of all . See
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2008/12/most-influential-human-in-last-tho...
Hitler's propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, learned propaganda from American progressives -- like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton!
You are so fucking stupid. sbenard: how old are you? 15?
last i heard 10-AND he is a she
Uhh, more likely he read Bernay's work, there, Poindexter.
What lies at the heart of National Socialism is that interest on debts issued by private banks must be abolished in order to emancipate the German people from interest slavery so that they can become slaves of the alloy of state and big industrial means of production. The only way to consume what produced by advanced technologies is war.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/09/13/hitler-and-the-banksters-the-abo...
http://national-socialist-worldview.blogspot.com/2012_09_01_archive.html
http://national-socialist-worldview.blogspot.com/2012/09/gottfried-feder...
You would think that somebody reading this would then know that he/she would be manipulated when the author later made his crazy speeches. And his book was well read. But he was probably right on how stupid the sheep are.
Speaking of such, I thought the many Left-hand sniffers, CAIR rectum-snooters, and Buchenwald Oven Operator's Union (BOOU) members would enjoy the new fall TV season line up including this trailer for an Iraqi sitcom:
#4491 - Satan and a Jewish Woman Give Birth to ISIS in an Iraqi TV Satire
Al-Iraqiya TV (Iraq) - September 9, 2014 - 03:51
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/4491.htm
Ya know Mein Kampf continues to be a best seller in the ME, especially among the so called palestinians.
Ah, I see MEMRI is having its ongoing Jewish fundraiser.
As for the revelation that “Mein Kampf continues to be a best seller in the ME, especially among the so called palestinians,” what a golden opportunity for the worldwide “jewish community” to express its “alarm” and growing “concern” over the spread of anti-Semitism in the world as Israel murders Gazan children and civilians in retaliation for throwing rocks or shooting off primitive rockets from their Israeli-built concentration camps on Palestinian soil.
In the meantime, as Yancey Ames writes, “Just as Duranty lied about Ukrainian famines and covered up for the Jewish gulag commissars, the Zionist presstitutes of today cover up for the Israel massacres of Gaza”… where Netanyahu “is merely purging anti-Zionist elements, Jewish commissar style” as is Yats the Rat purging Russian Ukrainians from eastern Ukraine.
Maybe it’s time for you to review Malcolm Muggeridge’s 1930s classic “Winter in Moscow” that got him blacklisted for exposing the Jewish-controlled horror in the Soviet Union. You know, as sort of guide to understanding today’s media bias and MEMRI propaganda.
By the way, has the “Buchenwald Oven Operator's Union (BOOU)” ever informed you that no Allied wartime photos of Auschwitz reveal gas chambers or a trace of the enormous amounts of smoke which were supposedly constant over the camp? Nor do they show evidence of "open pits" in which bodies were allegedly burned.
very few JEWS are Semitic, so lets cut all this 'anti-semitic' talk ok?
So how much are your BOOU dues? Effing low life
Bill Ayers, Obama's close friend and political supporter, said "of necessity 30 million people in the usa will have to be REEDUCATED".... libtard talk for executed.... IS THAT EVIL ENOUGH FOR YOU .......
Not quite the full measure of evil until the implementation...and it will happen.
What's in that tube, Bill?
Ebola, Barry. Here, take this.
The antidote?
Yeah.
I figured this was easier than building re-education camps.
Good idea, Bill.
pretty sure that is NeoCON talk for re-eduction camp for those dullards like yourself, and then death to all who refuse to be hypnotised
Just say No, and Go elsewhere.
Hitler was a PR genius… Burn all the books - except mine, that ought to boost sales!
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. Mencken
http://greghallett.com
The youtube translates to english
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8J38gn7Ga8
http://dublinsmick.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/hitler-was-a-rothschild-and-...
These are for serious researchers, children should stay away.
For the most part the historical record is based on theories and not facts. When I find a historian whose research is based on evidence like a forensic researcher, it’s time to listen. David Irving was considered an international expert on the history of WWI and II eras. Once he started writing about Hitler and Churchill and the lies recorded and used by most historians he was gravely criticized, not only his peers, but banned in many countries. If one comes too close to the truth and the world will hate you. Most of the criticism originated with SPLI and ADL.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwp7tVZuXKM
A good number of people need to figure out how to re-educate themselves. I certainly did. The question is how many can keep an open mind when viewing. I have no problem with nationalists. As far as I am concerned it is the only way to fend off a New World Order.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uvyw8_8hws
David Irving? Holocaust denier? Give me a fucking break. Another ZH looney tune.
Takes one to know one.Didn't you know in order to post on ZH you had to be looney. I am in this world, not of it.
I look for the facts, not a bunch of theoretical BS.
You're full of crap. He's no holocaust denier, he's a holocaust skeptic as far as the inflated bullshit propaganda that has come out of the "holocaust" -something laregly created in the early 70's. He does deny the existence of gas chambers and extermination camps (as compared to work camps as we did with the japanese Americans) , as there is no credible evidence that they existed. Irving is the foremost World war 2 historian -bar none. No one has come close in numbers to shaking the hands of people who actually shook then hands of Hitler. irving interviewed and obtained first hand documents and diaries and testimony of thousands of nazis and families of nazis who knew and worked with Hitler. They befriended him as they trusted him to report the truth. He is a Brit who is fluent in German, who reviewed and translated hundreds of thousands of documents from individuals and government archives. When the Soviet Union fell in 1991, it was Irving who made the effort and received permission from Russia to go into their archives and view, translate and copy all of the Goebells diaries - something no one else wanted to do as they did nothing to support the Holocaust "myth" as it has been reported and propagandized to us for decades. Funny how the memoirs of Churchill, Degaule and Eisenhower shortly after the war have no mention of the present day Holocaust as we know it. Irving cites original documents and testimony from his first hand research, while as all the Holocaust historians simply cite each other and each of their own conclusory remarks, none of which is reliable as real history. No one wants to do real research or engage in real historical debate, as they all fear they will suffer the fate of Irving -impoverishment, ridicule and imprisonment.
So the soldiers who discovered the death camps were mistaken?
"Death camps", that's a convenient phrase. What death camps are you referring to? There were plenty of "death camps" created by many during those years. Dig deep into the historical record and you may discover something and who is to blame. Have you read any of Irving? Did you attempt to go to the links? War is hell and it is a racket.
So the soldiers who discovered the death camps were mistaken?
When we look at the definition of propaganda we find it is a form of communication that is aimed towards influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position by presenting only one side of an argument. Propaganda is usually repeated and dispersed over a wide variety of media in order to create the chosen result in audience attitudes.
Today a program at the White House creates a message by spinning, scrubbing, molding, and shaping it, they then send it out to the public. They often go as far as to make a, "call to action", where those listening are encouraged to push forward their agenda. This is one of the ugly realities of modern communication, the ability to send out millions of messages directly and unfiltered, More on this subject in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/04/white-house-propaganda-machine.ht...
According to Jesuit historian Eric Jon Phelps, Mein Kampf was written by Hitler's Jesuit priest handler. Hitler was even given speech lessons by his Zionist handlers under the control of the Jesuits through their control of the Knights of Malta. Hitler was funded through Wall St from 1928 on and in fact the Jesuit controlled Fed stole America's gold to fund Hitler and WW2. A fact that has been suppressed to this day.
see
Vatican assassins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F31TmQ9GwU