Goebbels for Press Secretary of GOP (could be called the fine art of lying)
I have a new man who could help out the GOP get the word out to their impassioned followers. He walks with a limp but he's dead set against people with disabilities. He can twist words with equally as much skill as Mitt Romney and Paul Romney. One of my favorite German posters was a simple election poster that just said Ja, without giving any explanation to what these people were really saying yes too. He is slavishly loyal to one leader and to power. Joe Goebbels.
Goebbels was truly the master of repeating a lie so often it becomes the truth. He was a man who appeared to have no moral compass, other than the one he held to his pursuit of power. He could literally take any position and argue it so vehemently that you would have sworn he really believed that his lies was the truth. Another words Frank Lunz had nothing on Joe Goebbels.
The propaganda Goebbels created was an odd bled of nostalgia for the past, for being a purer simpler time; while holding up the modern as a means that the German exceptionalism had a way of showing its power over the inferior others. They worshiped the military and the cult of the dead and sacrificing for the nation. One person said that without "the cult of the dead" Nazism meant actually nothing.
Goebbels thought nothing of lying to the German people. When the Germany army at Stalingrad was surrounded and had to surrender, Goebbels kept putting out reports like the army was still there and fighting so it didn't panic the German populace. He had the fake German army even sending Christmas greeting to the people, though the real army had already surrendered. When the army was first surrounded, horrific letters came back to Germany from Russia, because the German government couldn't turn off the tap without potentially panicking the people about what had happened to their army. For a period of weeks some truth actually reached the German people and Goebbels and the Nazi hierarchy could do nothing about it. In the last weeks of the war Goebbels perhaps did some of his greatest work and turning the downfall of Germany into a victory of sorts.
"Under the debris of our shattered cities," wrote Joseph Goebbels in 1945 with a breathless intoxication reminiscent of expressionist. plays of the twenties, and indeed of his own diaries of that decade, "the last so-called achievements of the middle-class nineteenth century have been buries...Together with the monuments of culture there crumble also the last obstacles to the fulfillment of our revolutionary task. Now that everything is in ruins, we are forced to rebuild Europe. In the past, private possessions tied us to bourgeoisie restraint. Now the bombs, instead of killing all Europeans, have only smashed the prison walls which held the captive...In trying to destroy Europe's future, the enemy has succeeded in smashing its past, and with that, everything old and outworn has gone."
Ekstein, Modris, The Rites of Spring, pgs. 328-329
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