War propaganda – some true, some exaggerated, some distorted, some invented – on both sides of the trenches.
By Joseph Sobran ∙ August 1, 1995
Pal Joey Joseph Sobran is a nationally-syndicated columnist, lecturer, author (most recently of Alias Shakespeare), and editor of the monthly newsletter Sobran's (PO Box 1383, Vienna, VA 22183). “Pal Joey” is reprinted from the August 1995 issue of Sobran's, and “The Hiss Case” from the January 1997 issue. Thanks to cable TV, I recently caught…
By Gregory P. Pavlik ∙ September 1, 1995
Gregory P. Pavlik wrote this essay as an editor for The Freeman, published monthly by the Foundation for Economic Education (30 S. Broadway, Irvington-on-Hudson, NY 10533). It is reprinted from the September 1995 issue. Pavlik is also editor of the 1995 work, Forgotten Lessons: Selected Essays of John T. Flynn. The first use of an…
By Mark Weber ∙ November 1, 1995
In a book originally published in 1946, American writer Bergen Evans neatly disposes of a wartime fable about a German “death camp” in France, and at the same time discredits the durable myth that quicklime dissolves bodies. Writes Evans: In fiction and journalism, however, in so far as one can make that distinction, quicklime is…
By Joseph Sobran ∙ July 1, 1995
Joseph Sobran is a nationally-syndicated columnist, author and lecturer. He is a former senior editor of National Review, and currently Washington, DC, correspondent for The Wanderer and the Rothbard-Rockwell Report. He edits a monthly newsletter, Sobran's (… [now defunct; ed]). “Holy War” first appeared in the May 18, 1995, issue of The Wanderer, a traditionalist…
By Mark Weber ∙ September 1, 1993
Manufactured “rumors,” designed to mislead and demoralize the German public during the Second World War, were proposed to the British War Cabinet's Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee in October 1941. “Rumor” number five, which was suggested by the Joint Intelligence Committee, is a story that the Germans were using poison gas to secretly kill off their own…
By Robert Faurisson ∙ July 1, 1991
The myth of the “gassing” of the Jews during the Second World War is only a recurrence – or a recycling – of a myth from the First World War: that of the “gassing” of Serbs by the Germans, the Austrians, and the Bulgarians. On March 22, 1916, the London Daily Telegaph printed, on its…
By Francis Parker Yockey ∙ July 1, 1990
Far more important to Europe than the propaganda about domestic affairs in America is that about foreign affairs. The numen “democracy” is used also in this realm as the essence of reality. A foreign development sought to be brought about is called “spreading democracy”; a development sought to be hindered is “against democracy,” or “fascistic.”…
By William B. Hesseltine ∙ April 1, 1989
“Most shocking barbarities begin to be reported as practiced … upon the wounded and prisoners … that fall into their hands,” read an editorial in the New York Times. “We are told of their slashing the throats of some from ear to ear; of their cutting off the heads of others and kicking them about…
By Mark Weber ∙ December 1, 1988
Ilya Ehrenburg, the leading Soviet propagandist of the Second World War, was a contradictory figure. A recent article in the weekly Canadian Jewish News sheds new light on the life of this “man of a thousand masks.”[1] Ehrenburg was born in 1891 in Kiev to a non-religious Jewish family. In 1908 he fled Tsarist Russia…
By Jack Wikoff ∙ July 1, 1988
Heckling Hitler: Caricatures of the Third Reich, by Zbynek Zeman. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1987, Pb., 128 pp., illustrated, $14.95, ISBN 0-87451-403-7. Heckling Hitler, a recent selection of the Jewish Book Club, is a collection of 178 anti-Hitler, anti-National Socialist and anti-German political cartoons of the Weimar Republic and Nazi eras….
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