This is The Most Astonishing donation I've handled in my time as "Book Lady" since 2018: an anti–Nazi pamphlet from London, 1936:
"Germany's Foreign Policy as stated in 'Mein Kampf' by Adolf Hitler," tucked into the 1st English translation (1933) of MK: My Battle.
The pamphlet sums up the book's main passages, such as this one on "the art of lying".
Short version--read the whole thing in the photo:
"The bigger the lie, the more readily it will be believed:
'...The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses are... more easily deceived than they are ...intentionally bad.
The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one,
for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell big ones.
...SOMETHING THEREFORE ALWAYS REMAINS AND STICKS FROM THE MOST IMPUDENT OF LIES, a fact which all... concerned in the art of lying know only too well...."
I’d like to give that book to my disaster of a representative in Congress, Mary Miller, the one who just said that "Hitler was right on one thing."
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty convincingly documented that pre-presidency Trump had a book of Hitler's speeches as his bedside reading.
(Trying for a third time — Blogger won't let me leave a comment.)
There is also "if you say it with conviction it will be believed", so go ahead, look them in the eye, state your made-up "fact" and they will believe you.
ReplyDeleteMICHAEL: Mary Miller is shocking.
ReplyDeleteRIVER: You got it---say it with conviction.
It helps me to remember this in the GOOD sense---to state my opinion/facts without back-pedaling or apologies.