Mein Kampf
and forms of presentation which were seen to be sound found employment throughout the war, without even the slightest change. At first the propaganda seemed crazy in the impudence of its statements; later it became unpleasant, and finally was believed. After four and a half years a revolution whose slogan originated in enemy war propaganda broke out in Germany.
The English understood another thing: that the possible success of this intellectual weapon lies in wholesale use, but that success more than pays the cost.
Propaganda with them was a weapon of the first order, while with us it was the last living for jobless politicians and the sheltered post of second-rate heroes.
And taken all in all its success was nil.
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