Det finns en anledning till att propaganda fungerar bättre när man inte kan komma undan den. En av Nazitysklands mest skrämmande bedrifter var inte bara att regimen producerade propaganda. Regeringar hade producerat propaganda tidigare, och de har producerat gott om den sedan dess. Det som gjorde den nazistiska propagandamaskinen så formidabel var dess ambition att […]
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There is a reason propaganda works better when you cannot get away from it. One of the most frightening accomplishments of Nazi Germany was not simply that the regime produced propaganda. Governments had produced propaganda before, and they have produced plenty of it since. What made the Nazi propaganda machine so formidable was its ambition
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Sometimes when someone becomes an icon or they have an image attached to them, they get reduced down, and people only see that one particular image. For example, with somebody like JFK, it might be, “He was preppy and he dressed well, and his dad had money,” and then that becomes the whole story. With
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När vi nu uppmärksammar 65-årsdagen av Dag Hammarskjölds död fortsätter en fråga att dominera diskussionen om flygkraschen i Ndola 1961: Vem dödade Dag Hammarskjöld? Det är en förståelig fråga, men det är inte den bästa utgångspunkten. Om vi vill förstå vad som hände Hammarskjöld natten mellan den 17 och 18 september 1961 bör vi först
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As we stand at the 65th anniversary of Dag Hammarskjöld’s death, one question continues to dominate discussion of the 1961 Ndola crash: Who killed Dag Hammarskjöld? It is an understandable question, but it’s not the best place to begin. If we want to understand what happened to Hammarskjöld on the night of September 17–18, 1961,
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