Propaganda Adolf Hitler Quotes

Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.

The receptivity of the 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.

Only the Jew knew that by an able and persistent use of propaganda heaven itself can be presented to the people as if it were hell and, vice versa, the most miserable kind of life can be presented as if it were paradise. The Jew knew this and acted accordingly. But the German, or rather his Government, did not have the slightest suspicion of it. During the War the heaviest of penalties had to be paid for that ignorance. -- Mein Kampf, Chapter 10

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.

I have in this War a burning private grudge—which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler (for the odd thing about demonic inspiration and impetus is that it in no way enhances the purely intellectual stature: it chiefly affects the mere will). Ruining, perverting, misapplying, and making for ever accursed, that noble northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe, which I have ever loved, and tried to present in its true light.

Jede Propaganda hat volkstümlich zu sein und hat sich auf das Verständnis der am wenigsten intelligente dieser Platz, den sie zu erreichen sucht which means All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

Stalin is one of the most extraordinary figures in world history. He began as a small clerk, and he has never stopped being a clerk. Stalin owes nothing to rhetoric. He governs from his office, thanks to a bureaucracy that obeys his every nod and gesture. It's striking that Russian propaganda, in the criticisms it makes of us, always holds itself within certain limits. Stalin, that cunning Caucasian, is apparently quite ready to abandon European Russia, if he thinks that a failure to solve her problems would cause him to lose everything. Let nobody think Stalin might reconquer Europe from the Urals! It is as if I were installed in Slovakia, and could set out from there to reconquer the Reich. This is the catastrophe that will cause the loss of the Soviet Empire.

Propaganda, only propaganda is necessary. There is no end of stupid people.

Say the very simplest and most obvious things, say them as often as possible, and put into the saying all the screaming passion which one human voice can carry -- that was Adolf Hitler's technique. No matter whether it was true or not -- for (Hitler) meant literally his maxim that the bigger the falsehood, the easier to get it believed; people would say you wouldn't dare make up a thing like that. Imagine the worst possible about your enemies and then swear that you knew it, you had seed it, it was God's truth and you were ready to stake your life upon it -- shout this, bellow this, over and over, day after day, night after night...when ten million join in it becomes history.

The people in their overwhelming majority are so feminine by nature and attitude that sober reasoning determines their thoughts and actions far less than emotion and feeling. And this sentiment is not complicated, but very simple and all of a piece. It does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this way and half that way, never partially, or that kind of thing.

The receptivity of large masses is very limited. Their capacity to understand things is slight whereas their forgetfulness is great. Given this, effective propaganda must restrict itself to a handful of points, which it repeats as slogans as long as it takes for the dumbest member of the audience to get an idea of what they mean.

The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their               power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence, 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.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it intends to direct itself.” —Adolf Hitler

(As Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf put it, propaganda “must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.… [P]ersistence is the first and most important

Se uma doutrina que encerrasse mais inveracidade ao lado de idêntica brutalidade na propaganda, fosse oposta a social-democracia, triunfaria do mesmo modo, por mais áspera que fosse a luta.

Toda propaganda debe ser popular, adoptando su nivel intelectual a la capacidad respectiva del menos inteligente de los individuos a quienes se desee que vaya dirigida. De esta suerte, es menester que la elevación mental sea tanto menor cuanto más grande sea la masa que deba conquistar.

When the first news of the Nazi camps was published in 1945, there were those who thought the facts might be exaggerated either by Allied war propaganda or by the human tendency to relish 'atrocity stories.' In his column in the London magazine Tribune, George Orwell wrote that, though this might be so, the speculation was not exactly occurring in a vacuum. If you remember what the Nazis did to the Jews before the war, he said, it isn't that difficult to imagine what they might do to them during one. In one sense, the argument over 'Holocaust denial' ends right there. The National Socialist Party seized power in 1933, proclaiming as its theoretical and organising principle the proposition that the Jews were responsible for all the world's ills, from capitalist profiteering to subversive Bolshevism. By means of oppressive legislation, they began to make all of Germany Judenrein, or 'Jew-free.' Jewish businesses were first boycotted and then confiscated. Jewish places of worship were first vandalised and then closed. Wherever Nazi power could be extended—to the Rhineland, to Austria and to Sudeten Czechoslovakia—this pattern of cruelty and bigotry was repeated. (And, noticed by few, the state killing of the mentally and physically 'unfit,' whether Jewish or 'Aryan,' was tentatively inaugurated.) After the war broke out, Hitler was able to install puppet governments or occupation regimes in numerous countries, each of which was compelled to pass its own version of the anti-Semitic 'Nuremberg Laws.' Most ominous of all—and this in plain sight and on camera, and in full view of the neighbours—Jewish populations as distant as Salonika were rounded up and put on trains, to be deported to the eastern provinces of conquered Poland. None of this is, even in the remotest sense of the word, 'deniable.

[H]igher government authorities knew little or nothing of the value and nature of propaganda. Only the Jew knew that, by an able and persistent use of propaganda, heaven itself can be presented as hell, and vice versa, the most miserable kind of life as paradise. Only he knew this, and acted accordingly. But the German, or rather his government, hadn't the slightest idea of this... During the war, we paid the heaviest of penalties for this ignorance.

Het is de taak van de propaganda, om aanhangers te werven; de taak van de organisatie is, om leden te maken. Hij, die verklaart, het eens te zijn met de idealen van de beweging, is aanhanger; hij die voor de beweging strijdt, is lid. De sympathie van de aanhanger wordt gewonnen door de propaganda. Het lid wordt er door de organisatie toe gebracht, om zelf mee te werken, teneinde nieuwe aanhangers te winnen, waaruit dan weer nieuwe leden kunnen groeien.

Toda acción de propaganda tiene que ser necesariamente popular y adaptar su nivel intelectual a la capacidad receptiva del más limitado de aquellos a los cuales está destinada. De ahí que su grado netamente intelectual deberá regularse tanto más hacia abajo, cuanto más grande sea el conjunto de la masa humana que ha de abarcarse. Mas cuando se trata de atraer hacia el radio de influencia de la propaganda a toda una nación, como exigen las circunstancias en el caso del sostenimiento de una guerra, nunca se podrá ser lo suficientemente prudente en lo que concierte a cuidar que las formas intelectuales de la propaganda sean, en lo posible, simples.

Whatever definition we may give of the term 'public opinion,' only a very small part of it originates from personal experience or individual insight. The greater portion results from the manner in which public matters have been presented to the people, through an overwhelmingly impressive and persistent system of 'information.'... By far the most effective branch of political education-that which is best expressed by the word 'propaganda-is conducted by the press. The press is the chief means employed in the process of political 'enlightenment.' It represents a kind of school for adults. This educational activity, however, is not in the hands of the state but in the clutches of powers that are of very inferior character.

Whatever definition we may give of the term 'public opinion,' only a very small part of it originates from personal experience or individual insight. The greater portion results from the manner in which public matters have been presented to the people, through an overwhelmingly impressive and persistent system of 'information.'... By far the most effective branch of political education-that which is best expressed by the word 'propaganda'-is conducted by the press. The press is the chief means employed in the process of political 'enlightenment.' It represents a kind of school for adults. This educational activity, however, is not in the hands of the state but in the clutches of powers that are of very inferior character.

Christians like yourself invariably declare that monsters like Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, and Kim Il Sung spring from the womb of atheism. ... The problem with such tyrants is not that they reject the dogma of religion, but that they embrace other life-destroying myths. Most become the center of a quasi-religious personality cult, requiring the continual use of propaganda for its maintenance. There is a difference between propaganda and the honest dissemination of information that we (generally) expect from a liberal democracy. ... Consider the Holocaust: the anti-Semitism that built the Nazi death camps was a direct inheritance from medieval Christianity. For centuries, Christian Europeans had viewed the Jews as the worst species of heretics and attributed every societal ill to their continued presence among the faithful. While the hatred of Jews in Germany expressed itself in a predominately secular way, its roots were religious, and the explicitly religious demonization of the Jews of Europe continued throughout the period. The Vatican itself perpetuated the blood libel in its newspapers as late as 1914. And both Catholic and Protestant churches have a shameful record of complicity with the Nazi genocide. Auschwitz, the Soviet gulags, and the killing fields of Cambodia are not examples of what happens to people when they become too reasonable. To the contrary, these horrors testify to the dangers of political and racial dogmatism. It is time that Christians like yourself stop pretending that a rational rejection of your faith entails the blind embrace of atheism as a dogma. One need not accept anything on insufficient evidence to find the virgin birth of Jesus to be a preposterous idea. The problem with religion—as with Nazism, Stalinism, or any other totalitarian mythology—is the problem of dogma itself. I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.

Mejor se habría obrado imputando totalmente la culpa al enemigo, aun en el caso de que esto no hubiese sido verdad, como en realidad lo era. ¿Cuál fue la consecuencia de esta indecisión? La gran masa de un pueblo no se compone de diplomáticos o sólo de catedráticos de Derecho, ni siquiera de personas capaces de pensar con acierto, y sí de criaturas propensas a la duda y a las incertidumbres. Cuando se verifica en una propaganda el menor indicio de reconocer un derecho a la parte contraria, se crea inmediatamente la duda en cuanto al derecho propio. La masa del pueblo es incapaz de distinguir dónde acaba la injusticia ajena y dónde comienza la suya propia. Ella, en un caso como éste, se vuelve indecisa y desconfiada, sobre todo cuando el adversario no comete la misma cretinez, sino, por el contrario, lanza todas las culpas sobre el enemigo. Nada más natural, pues, que finalmente el pueblo termine creyendo más en la propaganda enemiga que en la propia, dada la uniformidad y coherencia de aquélla.

WHO WAS J.F. LEHMANN? This book postulates that Adolf Hitler made a subtle, but all-important shift from proselytizing the myth of Germans as the oppressed victims of an “international Jewish conspiracy” to that of the superior race and oppressor because of J.F. Lehmann. It is not until after J.F. Lehmann brought Hitler the infamous Baur-Fischer-Lenz book on eugenics that Hitler’s speeches shifted from the stab-in-the-back myth, or the “Dolchstoßlegende,” with Germans as the oppressed victims of betrayal, to the eugenic propaganda of Germans as the pinnacle of white-supremacy. Weakness and superiority are incompatible attributes, and J.F. Lehmann is responsible for the shift away from the weakness inherent in victimhood to a racial superiority. Thus, it begs to question, who was this pivotal figure in Adolf Hitler's life, and why is his name and history not part of the commonly accepted history of The Holocaust? Nothing of The Holocaust or World War II can be understood without documenting who was Julius Friedrich Lehmann. Yet, J.F. Lehmann barely makes it onto the radar of even the most thorough books on the subject, and then only to name him as the person who delivered the Baur-Fischer-Lenz book to Adolf Hitler at Landsberg prison.

As a whole, and at times, the efficiency of the truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, as always concentrating it on a single enemy. The more uniformly the fighting will of a people is put into action, the greater will be the magnetic force of the movement and the more powerful the impetus of the blow. It is part of the genius of a leader to make adversaries of different fields appear as always belonging to one category only, because to weak and unstable characters, the knowledge that there are various enemies will lead only too easily to incipient doubts as to their own cause. As soon as the wavering masses find themselves confronted with too many enemies, objectivity at once steps in, and the question is raised whether actually all the others are wrong and their own nation or their own movement alone is right. Also, with this comes the first paralysis of their own strength. Therefore, a number of essentially different enemies must always be regarded as one in such a way that in the opinion of the mass of one‘s own adherents the war is being waged against one enemy alone. This strengthens the belief in one‘s own cause and increases one‘s bitterness against the attacker.

Aquello que de ordinario denominamos "opinión pública" se basa sólo mínimamente en la experiencia personal del individuo y en sus conocimientos; depende más bien casi en su totalidad de la idea que el individuo se hace de las cosas a través de la llamada "información pública", que es persistente y tenaz. Del mismo modo que el credo religioso resulta de la educación, al paso que el sentimiento religioso duerme en lo más íntimo del ser, de la misma manera la opinión política de la masa es el resultado final del trabajo, a veces increíblemente arduo e intenso, de la inteligencia humana. La prensa es el factor responsable de mayor volumen en el proceso de la "educación" política, a la cual en este caso se le asigna con propiedad el nombre de propaganda; la prensa se encarga ante todo de esta labor de "información pública" y representa así una especie de escuela para adultos, sólo que esa "instrucción" no está en manos del Estado, sino bajo las garras de elementos que en parte son de muy baja ralea. Precisamente en Viena tuve en mi juventud la mejor oportunidad de conocer a fondo a los propietarios y fabricantes espirituales de esa máquina de educación colectiva. En un principio debí sorprenderme al darme cuenta del tiempo relativamente corto en que este pernicioso poder era capaz de crear un determinado ambiente de opinión, y esto incluso tratándose de casos de una mixtificación completa de las aspiraciones y tendencias que, a no dudar, existían en el sentir de la comunidad. En el transcurso de pocos días, esa prensa sabía hacer de un motivo insignificante una cuestión de Estado notable e, inversamente, en igual tiempo, relegar al olvido general problemas vitales o, más simplemente, sustraerlos a la memoria de las masas.

It is untrue that I or anybody else in Germany wanted war in 1939. It was desired and instigated exclusively by those international statesmen who were either of Jewish origin or working for Jewish interests. I have made so many offers for the reduction and elimination of armaments, which posterity cannot explain away for all eternity, that the responsibility for the outbreak of this war cannot rest on me. Furthermore, I never desired that after the first terrible World War a second war should arise against England or even against America. Centuries may pass, but out of the ruins of our cities and monuments of art there will arise anew the hatred for the people who alone are ultimately responsible: International Jewry and its helpers! As late as three days before the outbreak of the German-Polish War, I proposed to the British Ambassador in Berlin a solution for the German-Polish problem -- similar to the problem of the Saar area, under international control. This offer cannot be explained away, either. It was only rejected because the responsible circles in English politics wanted the war, partly in the expectation of business advantages, partly driven by propaganda promoted by international Jewry. But I left no doubt about the fact that if the peoples of Europe were again only regarded as so many packages of stock shares by these international money and finance conspirators, then that race, too, which is the truly guilty party in this murderous struggle would also have to be held to account: the Jews! I further left no doubt that this time we would not permit millions of European children of Aryan descent to die of hunger, nor millions of grown-up men to suffer death, nor hundreds of thousands of women and children to be burned and bombed to death in their cities, without the truly guilty party having to atone for its guilt, even if through more humane means.

In truth, “Arab” terrorism in the Holy Land originated centuries before the recent tool of “the Palestinian cause was invented.” In towns where Jews lived for hundreds of years, those Jews were periodically robbed, raped, in some places massacred, and in many instances, the survivors were obliged to abandon their possessions and run. As we have seen, beginning with the Prophet Mohammad’s edict demanding racial purity—that “Two religions may not dwell together . . .”—the Arab-Muslim world codified its supremacist credo, and later that belief was interpreted liberally enough to allow many non-Muslim dhimmis, or infidels, to remain alive between onslaughts in the Muslim world as a means of revenue. The infidel’s head tax, in addition to other extortions—and the availability of the “non-believers” to act as helpless scapegoats for the oft-dissatisfied masses—became a highly useful mainstay to the Arab-Muslim rulers. Thus the pronouncement of the Prophet Mohammad was altered in practice to: two religions may not dwell together equally. That was the pragmatic interpretation.181 In the early seventeenth century, a pair of Christian visitors to Safed [Galilee] told of life for the Jews: “Life here is the poorest and most miserable that one can imagine.” Because of the harshness of Turkish rule and its crippling dhimmi oppression, the Jews “pay for the very air they breath”.182 Reports like these could be multiplied. The audacity of Haj Amin al-Husseini’s claim that the “Jews always did live previously in Arab countries with complete freedom and liberty, as natives of the country” and that, “in fact, Muslim rule has always been tolerant . . . according to history Jews had a most quiet and peaceful residence under Arab rule,” is shown to be a cynical lie. This simply shows that Haj al-Husseini learned a lot from his visit to Nazis Germany. Adolf Hitler, whom he greatly admired, developed the propaganda tactic of “the Big Lie.

Cualquiera que sea el talento que se revele en la dirección de una propaganda, no conseguirá el éxito si no se toma en consideración siempre e intensamente un postulado fundamental: ella tiene que conformarse con poco; sin embargo, ese poco tendrá que ser repetido constantemente. La persistencia, en este caso, es, como en muchos otros de este mundo, la primera y más importante condición para el éxito. Los temas de propaganda, precisamente, no pueden ser dirigidos por estetas, ni por "blasés". Los primeros imprimen, por la forma y por la expresión, un sello a la propaganda que, dentro de poco, sólo tiene poder de atracción en los círculos literarios; los segundos, deben ser cuidadosamente evitados, pues su falta de sensibilidad hace que se busquen constantemente nuevos atractivos. Esas personas se cansan de todo con facilidad; lo que ellos desean es la variedad y son incapaces de una comprensión de las necesidades de sus conciudadanos todavía no contaminados por su pesimismo. Ellos son siempre los primeros críticos de la propaganda, o, mejor dicho, de su contenido, el cual les parece demasiado arcaico, etcétera. Sólo quieren novedades, sólo buscan variedad y se vuelven de esa forma enemigos mortales de una conquista eficiente de las masas, desde el punto de vista político. Después que una propaganda, en su organización y en su contenido, comienza a orientarse por las necesidades de aquéllos, pierde toda unidad y se dispersa completamente. La propaganda, por consiguiente, no fue creada para proporcionar a esos señores blasés una distracción interesante y sí para convencer a la masa. Ésta necesita -por ser de más lenta comprensión- de un determinado período de tiempo, antes de estar en condiciones de tomar conocimiento de un hecho y, solamente después de repetirles millares de veces los conceptos más elementales, es cuando su memoria entrará a retenerlos. La variación en la propaganda no debe alterar jamás el sentido de aquello que es el objeto de esa propaganda, sino que desde el principio hasta el fin debe significar siempre lo mismo. El motivo en cuestión puede ser considerado desde puntos de vista diferentes, mas es condición esencial que toda exposición entrañe en resumen, invariablemente, la misma fórmula. Sólo de esta suerte es posible hacer que la propaganda sea eficaz y uniforme. Sólo la línea maestra, que nunca debe ser abandonada, es capaz, guardando la acentuación uniforme y coherente, de hacer madurar el éxito final. Sólo entonces se podrá constatar con asombro cuán formidables y casi incomprensibles resultados es capaz de producir una persistencia tal. El éxito de toda propaganda, sea en el campo del comercio o en el de la política, supone una acción perseverante y la constante uniformidad de su aplicación. También en esto fue ejemplar la

¿a quién debe ser dirigida la propaganda, a los intelectuales o a la masa menos culta? ¡La propaganda siempre deberá dirigirse a la masa! Para los intelectuales, o para aquellos que hoy, lamentablemente, así se consideran, no se debe hablar de propaganda y sí de instrucción científica. Semejantes son las condiciones con las que hoy designamos la palabra propaganda. El fin de la propaganda no es la educación científica de cada cual, y sí llamar la atención de la masa sobre determinados hechos, necesidades, etcétera, cuya importancia sólo de esta forma entra en el círculo visual de la masa. El arte está exclusivamente en hacer esto de una manera tan perfecta que provoque la convicción de la realidad de un hecho, de la necesidad de un procedimiento, y de la justicia de algo necesario. La propaganda no es y no puede ser una necesidad en sí misma, ni una finalidad. De la misma manera como en el supuesto del cartel, su misión es la de llamar la atención de la masa y no enseñar a los cultos o a aquellos que procuran cultivar su espíritu; su acción debe estar cada vez más dirigida al sentimiento y sólo muy condicionalmente a la llamada razón. Toda acción de propaganda tiene que ser necesariamente popular y adaptar su nivel intelectual a la capacidad receptiva del más limitado de aquellos a los cuales está destinada. De ahí que su grado netamente intelectual deberá regularse tanto más hacia abajo, y cuanto más grande sea el conjunto de la masa humana que ha de abarcarse. Mas, cuando se trata de atraer hacia el radio de influencia de la propaganda a toda una Nación, como exigen las circunstancias en el caso del sostenimiento de una guerra, nunca se podrá ser lo suficientemente prudente en lo que concierne a cuidar que las formas intelectuales de la propaganda sean simples en lo posible. Cuanto más modesta sea su carga científica y cuanto más tenga en consideración el sentimiento de la masa, tanto mayor será su éxito. Esto, sin embargo, es la mejor prueba de lo acertado o erróneo de una propaganda, y no la satisfacción de las exigencias de algunos sabios o jóvenes estetas. El arte de la propaganda reside justamente en la comprensión de la mentalidad y de los sentimientos de la gran masa. Ella encuentra, por la forma psicológicamente adecuada, el camino para la atención y para el corazón del pueblo. Que nuestros sabios no comprendan esto, la causa reside en su pereza mental o en su orgullo. Comprendiéndose la necesidad de la conquista de la gran masa, por medio de la propaganda, se saca la siguiente conclusión: es errado querer dar a la propaganda la variedad, por ejemplo, de la enseñanza científica. La capacidad receptiva de la gran masa es sumamente limitada y no menos pequeña su facultad de comprensión; en cambio, es enorme su falta de memoria. Teniendo en cuenta estos antecedentes, toda propaganda eficaz debe concretarse sólo a muy pocos puntos y saberlos explotar como apotegmas hasta que el último hijo del pueblo pueda formarse una idea de aquello que se persigue. En el momento en que la propaganda sacrifique ese principio o quiera hacerse múltiple, quedará debilitada su eficacia por la sencilla razón de que la masa no es capaz de retener ni asimilar todo lo que se le ofrece. Y con esto sufre detrimento el resultado, para acabar a la larga por ser completamente nulo. Cuanto más importante sea el objetivo a alcanzar, tanto más cierta, psicológicamente, debe ser la táctica a emplear.

Unscrupulous leaders can manipulate this mechanism in whole populations. Adolf Hitler, for example, repeatedly described the Jews as Untermenschen (subhumans) and through the skilful use of propaganda was able to induce enough Germans to project their shadow on to them as to make the Holocaust possible. The

Known as “Leni,” Helene Bertha Amalie Riefenstahl was born on August 22, 1902. During the Third Reich she was known throughout Germany as a close friend and confidant of the Adolf Hitler. Recognized as a strong swimmer and talented artist, she studied dancing as a child and performed across Europe until an injury ended her dancing career. During the 1920’s Riefenstahl was inspired to become an actress and starred in five motion pictures produced in Germany. By 1932 she directed her own film “Das Blaue Licht.” With the advent of the Hitler era she directed “Triumph des Willens” anf “Olympia” which became recognized as the most innovative and effective propaganda films ever made. Many people who knew of her relationship with Hitler insisted that they had an affair, although she persistently denied this. However, her relationship with Adolf Hitler tarnished her reputation and haunted her after the war. She was arrested and charged with being a Nazi sympathizer, but it was never proven that she was involved with any war crimes. Convinced that she had been infatuated and involved with the Führer, her reputation and career became totally destroyed. Her former friends shunned her and her brother, who was her last remaining relative, was killed in action on the “Eastern Front.” Seeing a bleak future “Leni” Riefenstahl left Germany, to live amongst the Nuba people in Africa. During this time Riefenstahl met and began a close friendship with Horst Kettner, who assisted her with her acknowledged brilliant photography. They became an item from the time she was 60 years old and he was 20. Together they wrote and produced photo books about the Nuba tribes and later filmed marine life. At that time she was one of the world's oldest scuba divers and underwater photographer. Leni Riefenstahl died of cancer on September 8, 2003 at her home in Pöcking, Germany and was laid to rest at the Munich Waldfriedhof.

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

the Party attempts to create terms that unite all contradictions, and thereby do away with them. “Socialism with Chinese characteristics” is one of these. Or the “socialist market economy.” These formulations contain left and right, up and down, Maoist and neo-liberal all at once. Language has overruled logic and in doing so believes itself untouchable. Of course, in reality it is becoming ever more empty and absurd, but in a country where what matters is power and not letters, that doesn’t really make a difference. Here, more often than not, the function of words is to convey an order rather than a meaning: Nod! Swallow! Forget! Kneel! And so the propaganda machine feels perfectly free to compare the Dalai Lama with Adolf Hitler, and at the same time to warn the country’s newspaper editors never to confuse “truth and lies, good and evil, beauty and ugliness.” The true, the good, and the beautiful are always the Party and its Word.

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.” —Adolf Hitler Despite

The Royal Bank Letter, a Canadian publication, made this observation: A prophetic expert on the subject of tyranny through ignorance, Adolf Hitler, wrote inMein Kampf that propaganda, to be effective, must operate on the level of the “most stupid” members of society. Hitler, who loathed universal education, knew that ignorance goes hand-in-hand with gullibility. He realized that he could best “work his wicked will,” as Winston Churchill put it, when his audience was kept in the dark.

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.” —Adolf Hitler

By the clever and continuous use of propaganda, a people can even be made to mistake heaven for hell, and vice versa. —Adolf Hitler

Garvey told a reporter that he represented the future of black nationalism, while Du Bois represented the past.63 That future, he believed, hinged on what he was convinced would be the future of twentieth-century politics: mass politics, mass propaganda, and the power of the disciplined and mobilized nation. That conviction drew him to the figure of Benito Mussolini. Garvey expressed great admiration for the Italian dictator until he invaded Ethiopia in 1936. He even claimed that far from his movement’s being patterned after Mussolini’s Blackshirts, the influence flowed the other way around: “When we had 100,000 men and were training children, Mussolini was still unknown.” Garvey would insist that “the UNIA were the first Fascists.”64 He reserved the same admiration for Adolf Hitler. For Garvey, Jews were the symbol of the “lying, wheedling” West, and Jewish international finance was a power that “can destroy men, organizations, and nations.” No black was safe from that power, he warned his followers. The “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” taught “that a harm done by a Jew to a Gentile is no harm at all, and the Negro is a Gentile.” Anti-Semitism and the appeal of modern mass movements also led him to seek a partner in an unusual quarter: the Ku Klux Klan.

For example, in November 1996 Walendy was fined 20,000 marks by a district court in Dortmund for having in his possession twelve illegal copies of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf. The judge noted sourly, The planned distribution of the books manifests an extreme and therefore particularly dangerous mindset. The books are propaganda for dismantling the constitutional and legal system of the Federal Republic of Germany, and establishing a National Socialist system of injustice…This must be judged very severely.[52] However, judging by the appearance and physical condition of the offender, who at the time was 70 years of age and suffering from progressive heart disease, it would seem that the judge’s characterization of him as an “agitator” intent on “dismantling the constitutional and legal system of the Federal Republic of Germany” in order to “establish a National Socialist system of injustice” seems a bit far-fetched.

The Big Lie: This is a propaganda technique and logical trick (fallacy). The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his 1925 book, Mein Kampf, about the use of a lie so “colossal” that no one would believe that someone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.” The source of the big lie technique is in a particular passage, taken from chapter 10 of James Murphy’s translation of Mein Kampf. (Adolf Hitler,

The big lie is a term routinely attributed to Adolf Hitler. Supposedly Hitler used the term to describe Nazi propaganda. In his autobiography, Mein Kampf, Hitler contrasts the big lie with little or ordinary lies. “The great masses of the people,” he writes, “more easily fall victim to the big lie than to a little one, since they themselves lie in little things, but would be ashamed of lies that were too big. Such a falsehood will never enter their heads, and they will not be able to believe in the possibility of such monstrous effrontery and infamous misrepresentation in others.” 3 Hitler, however, is not referring to his own big lies. Rather, he is referring to the lies allegedly promulgated by the Jews. The Jews, Hitler says, are masters of the big lie. Now recognize that Mein Kampf is a tireless recitation of libels and calumnies against the Jews. The Jews are accused of everything from being capitalists to being Bolsheviks, from being impotent to lusting after Nordic women, from being culturally insignificant to being seekers of world domination. The charges are contradictory; they cannot simultaneously be true. Yet while lying about the Jews and plotting their destruction, Hitler accuses the Jews of lying and of plotting the destruction of Germany. Hitler employs the big lie even as he disavows its use. He portrays himself as a truth-teller and attributes lying to those he is lying about—the Jews. Could there be a more pathological case of transference, and specifically, of blaming the victim? The big lie is now back, and this time it is about the role of fascism and Nazism in American politics. The political Left—backed by the mainstream of the Democratic Party—insists that Donald Trump is an American version of Hitler or Mussolini. The GOP, they say, is the new incarnation of the Nazi Party. These charges become the basis and rationalization for seeking to destroy Trump and his allies by any means necessary. The “fascism card” is also used to intimidate conservatives and Republicans into renouncing Trump for fear themselves of being branded and smeared. Nazism, after all, is the ultimate form of hate, and association with it, the ultimate hate crime.

The receptivity of the 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.” —Adolf Hitler

I thank heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler, who built a front line of defense against the anti-Christ of Communism.” It was a throwaway comment made in an interview with the New York World-Telegram from his office at Calvary Church on Park Avenue and Twenty-first Street, and it did not reflect his wider thinking on the subject. Still, it illustrates how easily even the most serious Christians were initially taken in by Hitler’s conservative pseudo-Christian propaganda.