Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 |
"There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the **er, and this will always be "the man in the street." Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology." --Joseph Goebbels
I asked it before and I'll ask it again: would the world really have been worse off if Germany and the Nazis had won WW2? I don't see how.
ReplyDeleteWe would have missed out on Adenauer and Erhard and replaced them with the continuation of a paranoid, militarist, expansionist, racist junta. So I don’t think it’s a foregone conclusion that Germany would still be the lynchpin of the Euro economy that it is today.
DeleteGodwin's Law.
ReplyDelete@PH, not rewlly. Nobody mentioned Hitler. Oh crap, o just did.
DeleteI invoke my corollary to Godwin's Law:
ReplyDeleteThe first person to invoke Godwin's Law is probably a Nazi. ;)
You say Nazi like it's a bad thing ;-)
Delete