"If you repeat a lie often enough,it becomes a truth".-the biggest misquotation of the propaganda minister in Nazi Germany,J.Goebbels.Do not get me wrong.I do not want to say that this saying is not valid for propaganda in general.My pervious post on propaganda can only affirm that it totally is but i just want to underline that this is more common technique for the modern propaganda ,than the propaganda in Nazi Germany.I do not say that the Nazi Propaganda did not use lies, but only that Goebbels did not usedit as technique(at least not conciously) and that the so called 'big lie' is not revealing the big secrets of the 'dark art' of Nazi Germany by Goebbels,as most of the members of popular internet culture and admirers of internet quotations think.
What Goebbels in his speech "Churchill's lie factory" has said is :The essential English leadership secret does not depend on particular intelligence.Rather,it depends on remarkably stupid thick-headedness.The English follow the principle that when one lies,one shoul lie big and stick to it.They keep up their lies,even at the risk of looking ridiculous.
So in fact,he has refered to England and the Allies and their usege of the technique of lying.
But this quote is for sure true since,it is so many times repeated that it is Goebbels who has said it and that by it he is discovering the hidden sides of Nazi propaganda' ,that it finally becomes truth.
What Goebbels in his speech "Churchill's lie factory" has said is :The essential English leadership secret does not depend on particular intelligence.Rather,it depends on remarkably stupid thick-headedness.The English follow the principle that when one lies,one shoul lie big and stick to it.They keep up their lies,even at the risk of looking ridiculous.
So in fact,he has refered to England and the Allies and their usege of the technique of lying.
But this quote is for sure true since,it is so many times repeated that it is Goebbels who has said it and that by it he is discovering the hidden sides of Nazi propaganda' ,that it finally becomes truth.
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