G. Edward Griffin Quotes
In 1938, I. G. Farben sent a letter to (a major drug firm), one of its American subsidiaries, (that)..all advertising contracts must contain '...a legal clause whereby the contract is immediately cancelled if overnight the attitude of the paper toward Germany should be changed.
Griffin, G. Edward. World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17. American Media, 1974.
This quotation shows how large the American Post WWII German Propaganda Effort was. See {589369} for an earlier description.
After the Germans surrendered, the Army ran a huge propaganda enterprise. See {589368} to learn how it expanded.
This referred to ships being torpedoed by the German U-Boats in the poster.
This has been true in just about every conflict. In WWII however, there were a highly disproportionate ration of atrocities with those of the axis forces dwarfing those of the U. S. and its allies. Further, after the war, those allied atrocities that did take place were published. In addition, one basic difference is in the policies of the fighting forces and their governments as opposed to individual actions by soldiers. In WWII, the allied atrocities were of the latter type, but the axis atrocities involved both.
Dodd, in Berlin from 1933 to the onset of WWII, was able to see first hand what Hitler and the Nazi Movement was really like, Although he for the United States and Churchill for England warned early on, the politics of the times would not allow any action to stop or curtail Hitler. America, in particular, had a strong isolationist Republican wing and in addition, a small but loud core of pro Fascist, Hitler admirers such as Charles Lindburg, Father Coughlin, and Henry Ford. America had virtually no serious military capacity at the time, and with the Depression, FDR had all he could do to just gradually build up the military. By the time the Democracies realized that Dodd and Churchill were right, it was too late to prevent WWII. Dodd died in 1940 just when it was clear that he had been right.
He had knocked out Joe Louis earlier. Hitler and the Nazi propaganda machine promoted the championship fight to prove their racial policies. Schmelling was Aryan—the Master Race of the World according to the Nazis while Joe Louis, a Black American, was considered to be an untermenchen—a lower man. For the two boxers, this was all nonsense, but symbolically this boxing match was a geopolitical event. Louis won by a knockout in a minute and a half of the first round and for a while the German racial propaganda machine was silenced.
G. Edward Griffin is an American author, filmmaker, and conspiracy theorist. Griffin's writings promote a number of right-wing views and conspiracy theories regarding various of his political, defense and health care interests. In his book World Without Cancer, he argued in favor of a pseudo-scientific theory that asserted cancer to be a nutritional deficiency curable by consuming amygdalin. He is the author of The Creature from Jekyll Island (1994), which advances debunked conspiracy theories about the Federal Reserve System. He is an HIV/AIDS denialist, supports the 9/11 Truth movement, and supports a specific John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory. He also believes that the Biblical Noah's Ark is located at the Durupınar site in Turkey.
