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charliehall
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“I think not using stuff made in Germany during the war is a good moral issue.”

Actually I think every Jew should see Leni Riefenstahl’s “Triumph of the Will”, a 1935 Nazi propaganda film. It is one of the most masterful works of propaganda in history and had a lot to do with why the Nazis had little opposition in Germany.

And then follow it up with Frank Capra’s “Why We Fight”, a series of American propaganda films that were used to increase American support for the war. Clips from Riefenstahl’s film were used — and countered.

(And if you really want to see horrible but effective propaganda, see D. W. Griffith’s 1915 “The Birth of a Nation”. It turns the Ku Klux Klan into heroes.)