WOW - Morning Joe and Mika's idea of a man with the 'right tone'...all surface bullsh*t... Jake Tapper would love the guy... Oh God to be that shallow... New York Times boys would be lining up to kiss his butt...
Rather too proud for remorse or apology, much like Heidrich's wife: "Es war eine schöne Zeit.
Isn’t it funny. One J. Goebbels has been replaced by an entire apparatus that is the American Main Stream Media. If she were younger the employment opportunities would be endless.
AH! The always effective "Sgt. Schultz" defense.
That is a pretty heavily photoshopped picture at the top of that story. It is pretty unfair to portray her that way.
She was a clerk for goodness sake. Look around your office at the clerks. They were not approving propaganda themes. They were typing.
The takeaway I get from this woman’s story, is that our side needs to recruit people like her. IOW, insiders. Nobodies, low level functionaries with access to documents and hard information. People who are able to copy and hack and funnel useful information.
Overcoming their loyalty to their bosses is hard, but it can be done.
Conversely, people on our side who are pretty good actors can be placed in those positions with access.
She meant she didn’t know their side was gonna lose
When I was stationed in Berlin in the mid 70’s, a lady that worked in the chow hall at Tempelhof said she was in the Hitler youth (like she had a choice) and during the last days of the war in Berlin, the only Nazi official she would see out in the streets making speeches was Goebbles. She said all the others were cowards hidden away in their bunkers.
She knew. What would you do? She can confess that she knew what was going on and then some radical would come and knock her in the head. Someone may do it anyway. She couldn’t oppose authority and she couldn’t tell the Russians everything. Death at their hands would have been a gift compared to what would have happened to her. How sad.
It's easy to sit here and say we'd never follow orders like the Nazis did had we been alive in Germany during WW2, or that we'd never own slaves if we happened to be a white landowner in Mississippi in 1843.
Fact is, most of us would be good Nazis and most of us would be slaveowners under different circumstances.
Given human nature, it's pretty amazing that the United States of America has survived all these 200+ years in the current form. I don't think many other nations can boast of such stable government over such a long period of time without a major revolution. It even survived the War Between the States. But I fear our time as a Republic is running out unless we elect leaders that will put us back on track.
Wonder in 50 years will secretaries of Npr, cnn, nbc, abc, cbs, msnbc, etc., insist they knew absolutely nothing?