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Goebbels' Principles of Propaganda #15 [1]
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Date: 2023-12-18
PROPAGANDA TO THE HOME FRONT MUST PREVENT THE RAISING OF FALSE HOPES WHICH CAN BE BLASTED BY FUTURE EVENTS
The Battle of Hopes and Dreams
Goebbels felt that predicting military or political success was “too risky.” See Leonard Doobs, Goebbels Principles of Propaganda.
There was too much danger that there would be a battlefield defeat, or even not as much of a success as expected. Then, later claims would lack credibility, and the loss would cause spirits to be “deflated” more than if nothing had been said at all.
But Goebbels struggled with “false hopes that seemed to spring from the Germans themselves, a form of wishful thinking which occurred spontaneously.” So messaging from the Nazis had to raise morale, but not in a way that could be disproven by actual events.
Share The Tell with Christine Axsmith
2023
This is one propaganda principle that is ignored today.
Remember the predictions of a Republican sweep of U.S. Congressional elections in 2022? The commentariat was united in its prediction of Democrat defeat. They were so wrong, even they were embarrassed.
The same is happening today with social media trends being mistaken for actual movements in public opinion. I’ll let you fill in the blanks.
In an age where news is global, and a protest on one side of the globe impacts people on the other side of the globe, common sense would indicate that the chattering classes would be more tepid in their predictions. Alas, no.
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