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To: bert

I did a search after reading Goebbels’ principles, good find. Here are all of them. Nicely formatted on a website, cannot duplicate here.

https://www.physics.smu.edu/pseudo/Propaganda/goebbels.html

Goebbels’ Principles of Propaganda

When reading these propaganda principles, keep in mind that they were applied in wartime (WWII) and involve issues that don’t arise otherwise. It’s a long list, but Goebbels was dealing with the complexity of an all-out war. While reading them you may realize that some of the principles are generally applicable and not limited to wartime. Some might be quite familiar today. It is interesting to note that Goebbels’ principles derive from Hitler’s own ideas of propaganda.

Propagandists must have access to intelligence concerning events and public opinion.

Propaganda must be planned and executed by only one authority.
It must issue all the propaganda directives.
It must explain propaganda directives to important officials and maintain their morale.
It must oversee other agencies’ activities which have propaganda consequences.

The Propaganda consequences of an action must be considered in planning that action.

Propaganda must affect the enemy’s policy and actions.

By suppressing propagandistically desirable material which can provide the enemy with useful intelligence.

By openly disseminating propaganda whose contents or tone causes the enemy to draw the desired conclusions.
By goading the enemy into revealing vital information about himself.
By making no reference to a desired enemy activity when any reference would discredit that activity.

Declassified, operational information must be available to implement a propaganda campaign.

To be perceived, propaganda must evoke the interest of an audience and must be transmitted through an attention-getting medium.

Credibility alone must determine whether propaganda output should be true or false.

The purpose, content, and effectiveness of enemy propaganda; the strength and effects of an expose’; and the nature of current propaganda campaigns determine whether enemy propaganda should be ignored or refuted.

Credibility, intelligence, and the possible effects of communicating determine whether propaganda materials should be censored.

Material from enemy propaganda may be utilized in operations when it helps diminish that enemy’s prestige or lends support to the propagandist’s own objective.

Black rather than white propaganda must be employed when the latter is less credible or produces undesirable effects.

Propaganda may be facilitated by leaders with prestige.
Propaganda must be carefully timed.

The communication must reach the audience ahead of competing propaganda.
A propaganda campaign must begin at the optimum moment.
A propaganda theme must be repeated, but not beyond some point of diminishing effectiveness.
Propaganda must label events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans.
They must evoke responses which the audience previously possesses.
They must be capable of being easily learned.
They must be utilized again and again, but only in appropriate situations.
They must be boomerang-proof.

Propaganda to the home front must prevent the raising of false hopes which can be blasted by future events.

Propaganda to the home front must create an optimum anxiety level.

Propaganda must reinforce anxiety concerning the consequences of defeat.
Propaganda must diminish anxiety (other than that concerning the consequences of defeat) which is too high and cannot be reduced by people themselves.

Propaganda to the home front must diminish the impact of frustration.
Inevitable frustrations must be anticipated.
Inevitable frustrations must be placed in perspective.
Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.
Propaganda cannot immediately affect strong counter-tendencies; instead it must offer some form of action or diversion, or both.

These would be principles guiding the conduct of propaganda operations.


50 posted on 07/25/2016 8:11:50 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: little jeremiah
Thanks for that reference.

Here is my go to site for the same list. Both lists reference Goebbels' Principles of Propaganda by Leonard W. Doob.

Regarding the war, Goebbels was appointed by Hitler in 1933 so there were 5 years during which the propaganda methods were developed and implemented.

What is apparent to any present reader is that the DNC has very effectively learned the lessons of Goebbels teaching and practice them day in and day out. He would be proud

51 posted on 07/25/2016 8:27:06 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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To: little jeremiah

Goebbels was a model of integrity and honesty compared to the American media.

Goebbels never bragged about how he got tingles up and down his legs when watching the Fuhrer.


56 posted on 07/25/2016 9:35:54 AM PDT by detective
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