• DagwoodIII@piefed.social
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    5 days ago

    During WW1 there was a lot of anti-German propaganda. After the war it turned out that German troops had behaved like every other army. When the Nazis came to power many Americans assumed that the stories about them were the same old, same old.

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      The dangers of propaganda. It’s one of the reasons Allied Intelligence in WW2 opted to tell the truth, or at least more of it, since the self-discrediting propaganda in WW1 eventually became counter-productive.