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There is a programme on television about Hitler and I wanted to watch it but I am recording it so OH can watch the spitting.(Where they sometimes kick a ball to work up a good flob!)

I must be going soft.

Yes -definitely going soft! :-D
The Hitler programme was good :-D

It seems you can fool a good many of the people for much of the time if you catch them at the right time.

No doubt this what the programme will tell me.

:-D :-D :-D

You're not going soft Sharron you're lulling OH into a false state...where he thinks he rules bless.... :-)

Must be serious. I postponed my chick-flick about Adolf for it!

:-D

Have you watched it yet?

Oh, yes. It needs watching again with full attention.

It needs to be watched by everybody really, just so we are aware of the power of propaganda.

What was it called and what channel Sharron?

'Hitler's Propaganda Machine' on 'Yesterday'.

I agree, Sharron, should be watched by as many as possible!

Thanks Sharron I'll see if I can watch it....

Found it on YouTube just watched it. Agreed should be viewed by all. Just shows how "easy" it is to fool so many. In that respect they were geniuses.

going on tour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zY1orxW8Aw

That is a scene from a musical so you would do as well to watch 'The Lonely Goatherd' on YouTube.

However, should you wish to watch some National Socialist Propaganda made to please the masses ('bread and circuses'?), 'Triumph of the Will', is available in it's entirety on YouTube.

Not sure who you thought you were being funny at there Rollo.....Sharron had mentioned a serious documentary and the easiest way for me to see it was on YouTube.

Yesterday / History channel are pretty lightweight and will never get into the true horrors of Hitler's Germany. fwiw the technqiues of Goebbels are still widely taught and used in modern politics & advertising.

by far the most effective way to destroy fascists is to take the p I ss
but if you want to light a candle for Horst Wessel try this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5mUlyHwwwY
https://www.anesi.com/east/horstw.htm

That would be handy if you fancied a bit of a sing-along I suppose.

Or you could just have a read of some William Shirer. He was there watching it all unfold.

Shirer "The Rise of the Third Reich" was on my required reading list back in the day at uni. where I read Law.

Albert Speer "Inside the Third Reich" takes a student closer to seeing how the irrational came to power and remained there until defeated by external powers. Orwell dealt very well with the impossibility of removing an authoritarian regime from within.

There are any number of web sites with (free) online publications giving limpid witness to the Third Reich on a day to day basis. However if you don't speak German then there is no option but that of derivative texts. This is quite a good one:
https://spartacus-educational.com/GERcrystal.htm

IMHO Aaron Banks, Farage, UKIP, Brexit, Davis, Fox and their fellow travellers are fascists following in the bloody footsteps of the SA and Ernst Rohm.

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."