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When I peeked into the copy of Peninsula that was distributed to my door, I was quite pleasantly surprised to see rational, logical treatments of a controversial subject in a magazine from which I had come to expect nothing but mind-numbing propagandist talk...
Consider Tom Paine, the immigrant artisan who became the ablest propagandist of the American Revolution. At first he could find no one in Philadelphia willing to print the pamphlet he called Common Sense. It was too fiery, he was told, too seditious, and at this point a more cautious man might have learned to seal his lips. But finally a fellow radical, notorious, among other things, for living openly "in sin," agreed to roll the presses. Common Sense was born, with its great news that Americans had it in their power to overthrow the "crowned ruffians," the "royal brute...
After the war, Hitler joined a new and violently anti-Semitic group, the $ forerunner of the National Socialist German Workers' Party -- Nazi for short. There, for the first time since adolescence, he found a home and friends. Within a year, he became the chief Nazi propagandist. Judaism, he told his audiences, had produced the profiteers and Bolsheviks responsible for the defeat of the fatherland and the strangulation of the economy. Jews were bacilli infecting the arts, the press, the government. Pogroms would be insufficient. "The final aim must unquestionably be the irrevocable Entfernung ((removal)) of the Jews...
...Lithuania three weeks after the invasion, while Otto von Habsburg, son of Austria-Hungary's last Emperor, detailed for Gertraud Lessing the incongruously lavish meal he ate at the Ritz in Paris the night the government fled the city. Franz Spelman, who visited filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's famous propagandist, at her villa near Munich, discovered a well-coiffed blond who had just returned from scuba diving in the Caribbean and looked 20 years . younger than her age (87). Leonora Dodsworth tracked down Edda Ciano, Mussolini's eldest daughter, at her elegant apartment in Rome. "She has Il Duce...
Bonn and Moscow have been at arm's length for five years, ever since West Germany agreed to deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles aimed at the U.S.S.R. The gulf widened in 1986 when Kohl compared Gorbachev with the infamous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. Now the missiles are going, and Gorbachev has evidently swallowed his personal grievance in hopes of cashing in on Europe's newfound enthusiasm for his grand plan for reform. And cash in he did. The 70 top-ranking West German businessmen who accompanied Kohl offered the Soviets a $1.7 billion line of credit and some 30 trade...