A great Hermann Goering quote... (Hey Tom_Paine, you'll like this one)

trumad

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Sun Jun-20-04 03:34 PM
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A great Hermann Goering quote... (Hey Tom_Paine, you'll like this one)

This is from the testimony of Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg trials, not long before Hitler's vice-fuhrer poisoned himself in his jail cell:

"It is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."

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stavka

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Sun Jun-20-04 03:35 PM
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1. ...ah, words from a true master of evil.

Great with the uniforms too...

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walldude

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Sun Jun-20-04 03:38 PM
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2. That quote

is the heading at liberalslant.com Boy did the the Bushies study that one or what...

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fdr_hst_fan

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Sun Jun-20-04 03:41 PM
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5. I remember reading a joke about

Fatboy Hermann (doesn't he resemble Rush just a little?): When meat became scarce in Berlin during the war, he walked down the Unter den Linden in a see-through raincoat so that everyone could see what two sides of beef looked like!

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Cleita

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Sun Jun-20-04 03:38 PM
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3. I used to have that quote on my signature line, so everyone

would see it everytime I posted. It's good to remind us regularly about how timely that quote is for us today as well by posting it every now and then on DU. Thanks.

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trumad

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Sun Jun-20-04 03:39 PM
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4. You're welcome

My 67 year old dad sent that to me today... I'm glad to see he's on the ball....

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Ottmar

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Sun Jun-20-04 04:14 PM
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6. Another quote:

"Humans get involved rather in a large lie as on a small lie, because they tell often small lies in small affairs, but would be ashamed to withdraw themselves to large falsehoods. It would never come them into the head to produce kollossale untruths and they would never believe it that others would possess the insolence to rotate the truth so infamously. Even if the facts, which prove that it is like that, are brought into their spirits, they still will doubt and hesistate and will continue to think that there could be another explanation."

Adolf Hitler

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Jade Fox

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Sun Jun-20-04 04:34 PM
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8. That one is great too....

The translation is a little confusing, but what I am reading is: People
believe big lies because telling untruths about important matters is
not something they would do themselves, as apposed to small lies of
convenience. Even when shown the facts that prove the falsity of a big
lie, people cling to the belief that is must be true, and look for some
other explanation.

Welcome to DU Ottmar! :hi:

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Ottmar

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Sun Jun-20-04 04:48 PM
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9. You 've got it!

It's a babelfish-translation with some manual fine-tuning as I'm to tired to translate it all myself. But this quote is in German a bit long-winded too.

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Mayberry Machiavelli

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Sun Jun-20-04 04:15 PM
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7. I've forwarded this one a lot in the last year. The more things change,

the more they stay the same...

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