Thereforewhen force is employed success is
dependent on the consistent manner inwhich it is used.
In political matters itfrequently happens that
feeling judges more correctly than intellect.
Thereforewhen force is employed success is
dependent on the consistent manner inwhich it is used. All such ideals are only of
secondary importance when a nation isstruggling for its existence.
Propaganda must always address itself to the broad
masses of the people. Thus their rage and hatredagainst the infamous foe was
increased.
This same transformation took place throughout the
whole army. Fate might now put me throughthe final test without my nerves or reason
giving way.
If they had done so, such foolish errors would not
have beencommitted.
It would have been still better if theReichstag had
been dissolved immediately. They weresimply above all such things, too clever to
accept any teaching.
Propaganda must always address itself to the broad
masses of the people.
And so the viper could begin his work
again.
But I was a being without a name, one among eight
millions. This time, however, morecarefully than before, but still more
destructively. I thought that all this proved how little theyknew about the Marxist
plague. In a similar way letters coming directly from home had long since
beenexercising their effect. Anyhowthey did not honestly wish to learn anything.
Anybody who had carefully investigated the Germanpropaganda must have formed that
judgment of it.
When people attempt to answer this reasoning
byhighfalutin talk about aesthetics, etc.
One feature of this propaganda was very
striking.
They weresimply above all such things, too clever
to accept any teaching.
Of these gentry once cantruly say that their maxim
is: What we dont know wont bother us. To be efficacious it had come from the home
front.
This time, however, morecarefully than before, but
still more destructively.
And it wasthen that I first conceived the idea of
taking up political work lateron.