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Members Only #160 - Crow's Eagle's Nest

The Fifth Column

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The Propaganda Ministry in Nazi Germany

I'm totally fascinated by this idea of the propaganda ministry and Joseph Gerbels, which was not like, oh, tell a lie a million times and people will believe it. This is what dumb people think about Nazi Germany. But when you actually look at this stuff, the idea was to never draw attention to things. It was to overwhelm people with entertainment in propaganda. Am I historian? Not professionally, no. Do I try to pretend I am one sometimes? Sure, he doesn't go around pretending that I am in a way that I have a business card or I ever identify myself as such because I'm not. He's just trying to call someone an Aussie because he has

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