Word: goebbelsism
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¶Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels invited German mobs to lynch downed Allied airmen. "It is too much to ask of us that we call out German soldiers to protect murderers of children from the righteous anger of their parents."
One night on the Berlin radio Germans heard the faultless, schoolmaster prose of Dr. Goebbels: "The enemy's preparations for invasion are practically completed. . . . [Behind the Westwall] are a hidden host of unknown preparations."
But "little Paul Joseph Goebbels could fool the people no longer. Though they showed no sign of crackup to the outside world, though they knew their army and even, perhaps, the vestiges of their surface navy, would put up a good stout fight, it was not so simple as all...
"Hitler at the present time is surrounded for the greater part by members of the Wehrmacht. He lives among these men on the Obersalzberg at Berchtesgaden. He seldom sees Goring, Goebbels and Himmler. In Hitler's house nowadays certain subjects are taboo; for instance, that of total war and...
Even more accurate, in an easier role, is Victor Varconi. He thickened his eye brows, blended the mannerisms of a body guard and a devoted wife, became a dead ringer for Rudolf Hess. Luis Van Rooten's Heinrich Himmler is verisimilitudinous enough to make flesh crawl. Even when resemblances...