Tuesday, March 28, 2006
The Fatherland
Last night, we watched the PBS documentary Prisoner of Paradise about a Nazi Potemkin village in Czechoslovakia--set up by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels in 1944--that successfully duped the International Red Cross into issuing a report describing this German concentration camp as a humanitarian relocation center.
Perhaps someday, American propaganda--disguising its role in subverting prodemocracy movements around the globe during the Cold War and its aftermath--will also be scrutinized as a means of deceptive mass communication. Comparisons with antecedents in Nazi Germany would be most enlightening.
Perhaps someday, American propaganda--disguising its role in subverting prodemocracy movements around the globe during the Cold War and its aftermath--will also be scrutinized as a means of deceptive mass communication. Comparisons with antecedents in Nazi Germany would be most enlightening.
