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   Topaz to All   
   Big Lie   
   03 Dec 17 19:50:03   
   
   From: mars1933@hotmail.com   
      
   Another Fake Hitler Quote from a Novel   
      
    Last July I exposed a speech ostensibly composed entirely of Hitler   
   quotes as being composed mostly, in fact, of fake Hitler quotes.   
      
   The debunking of fake Hitler quotes seems to be a never-ending task,   
   because people are inventing new ones. One of the fake quotes that I   
   debunked was this:   
   "It's not the truth that matters, but victory."   
   That fake Hitler quote is from a novel, Mist of Love, Fog of War by   
   Alain J. Zgheib, published only in 2016.  From the same novel, we have   
   this:   
   "And the victor will never be asked if he told the truth."   
   The fake quotes from that novel spread very quickly. I have   
   encountered them several times.   
      
   According to Snopes, this is also from a novel:   
      
   It is from a slightly older novel, Pat Miller's Willfully Ignorant   
   from 2014.   
      
   The propagation of a fake quote like this raises some questions.   
      
   One could ask about the thought-processes of the person who decided to   
   take a sentence from a novel and to misrepresent it as a quote from   
   Adolf Hitler. Obviously such a person has no scruples.   
      
   More important, however, is what it says about the people who readily   
   embrace such a misrepresentation.   
      
   In the first place, it shows that, despite the obsession with Adolf   
   Hitler in popular culture, much of the general public knows   
   practically nothing about him. They never perused Mein Kampf to get a   
   general idea of what Hitler said -- which is rather the opposite of   
   what is attributed to him here. The whole spirit of Mein Kampf is   
   blunt and honest.   
      
   Furthermore, it suggests that they are still under the influence of   
   old war-propaganda alleging that Hitler presented in Mein Kampf   
   theories about how to deceive the public. Anyone who investigates what   
   Hitler wrote will find that he warned against the Big Lie as a tactic   
   of the Jews. But the vast majority of people will never check, and the   
   few who have checked either could not or would not obliterate that   
   false belief.   
      
   Dinesh D'Souza, in his public presentations about his idiotic book The   
   Big Lie, speaks as if Hitler had advocated the Big Lie. D;Souza   
   indicates in his book that he knows better, but for whatever reason he   
   chooses in his public presentations to conform to the old, false   
   propaganda. The fact that he can do this in presentations at   
   universities without suffering embarrassment is remarkable. Perhaps   
   the people who recognize the deception just don't want to be seen   
   defending Hitler. (Many of Dinesh D'Souza's followers however are   
   simply stupid.)   
      
   The belief  that Hitler would have written such statements in a book   
   for publication also shows an utter lack of critical thinking.   
      
      
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   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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