Walking softly among the noise and haste... and I don't mean here on the forum, more like feeling an increase in celular velocity. I've been pondering the last few days my personal reasons for making a study of Adolf Hitler and the purveyors of war. There is a lot of confusing data to weed through and that I am finding valuable. Stripping away assumptions, lies, beliefs on all fronts allows us to see more clearly. We are the living legacy of centuries of social and
genetic engineering, if we take this as a given (ET involvement, hyperdimensional realities, Annunaki, ancient aliens, etc.) we carry within us an intelligent ability to see
beyond the screen to a deeply buried truth.
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
― C.G. Jung
We've all been overly exposed to certain quotes assigned to Adolf Hitler and his
tribe. One of the most used ones is: “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.” (I've also seen this quote assigned to other SS officers as well.)
propaganda (n.)
1718, "committee of cardinals in charge of Catholic missionary work," short for Congregatio de Propaganda Fide "congregation for propagating the faith," a committee of cardinals established 1622 by Gregory XV to supervise foreign missions. The word is properly the ablative fem. gerundive of Latin propagare (see propagation). Hence, "any movement to propagate some practice or ideology" (1790). Modern political sense dates from World War I,
not originally pejorative. Meaning "material or information propagated to advance a cause, etc." is from 1929.
The above quote is often used as an example of Hitler's known use of propaganda to lead the world against Jewry and of his supposed hatred and despotic character. The question in me that begged to be answered was when and where did he say this and in what context? A rather cursory research of the internet only brought up opinions and no references. Um? I finally came to Mein Kampf (My Struggle) which I've never read so I found a PDF copy and downloaded it. Searching the single word propaganda I came upon this quote on page 362:
We had experience of this when we made our own first public appearance. In all truth it can be said that we did not court public favour but made an onslaught on the follies of our people. In those days the following happened almost always: I presented myself before an assembly of men who believed the opposite of what I wished to say and who wanted the opposite of what I believed in. Then I had to spend a couple of hours in persuading two or three thousand people to give up the opinions they had first held, in destroying the foundations of their views with one blow after another and finally in leading them over to take their stand on the grounds of our own convictions and our Weltanschhauung [World View].
I learned something that was important at that time, namely, to snatch from the hands of the enemy the weapons which he was using in his reply. I soon noticed that our adversaries, especially in the persons of those who led the discussion against us, were furnished with a definite repertoire of arguments out of which they took points against our claims which were being constantly repeated. The uniform character of this mode of procedure pointed to a systematic and unified training. And so we were able to recognize the incredible way in which the enemy’s propagandists had been disciplined, and I am proud to-day that I discovered a means not only of making this propaganda ineffective but of beating the artificers of it at their own work. Two years later I was master of that art.
In every speech which I made it was important to get a clear idea beforehand of the probable form and matter of the counter-arguments we had to expect in the discussion, so that in the course of my own speech these could be dealt with and refuted. To this end it was necessary to mention all the possible objections and show their inconsistency; it was all the easier to win over an honest listener by expunging from his memory the arguments which had been impressed upon it, so that we anticipated our replies. What he had learned was refuted without having been mentioned by him and that made him all the more attentive to what I had to say.
362
Reading these words I find a refreshing self honesty, not a coward hiding in the shadows. I hear a person who is not afraid to reveal what he knows.
Came across this
website while looking for a downloadable version of Mein Kampf. A bit heavy on Christian indoctrination and from my current perspective missing many links to how the Christian god Jehovah is an inappropriate construction ... however it does have some interesting data.
To end with another quote of Rudolf Hess:
"I hope that the outside world will realise that Hitler's government has no idea of steering towards war, even though this has often been asserted abroad. As Adolf Hitler himself has said, Germany has no need of another war to avenge the loss of her military honour, because she never lost that honour. Germany does not want war of any kind. Germany wants real and abiding peace."
~ Rudolf Hess