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92Propaganda and Spin: The Manipulation of Mass Actions, Attitudes and Behaviors
Just to paraphrase Bernays, The conscious ad intelligent manipulation of organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society", is to say what we say when we examine and interrogate contemporary media as it affects and effects in it myriad forms and manifestations as we use, interact with them or use them amongst ourselves, and as we upgrade to new and emerging and merging technologies, we end up trusting them and fall the the interpretation as to what we se
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68Hitler and the Forgotten Moment in History
A moment in time that could have changed all our histories, yet historians don't mention it. Perhaps now this moment may be remembered.
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71Who Was Nazi Horst Wessel?
Horst Wessel leading his Brownshirts Horst Wessel was the son of a Lutheran minister. He was bright, did well in school but did drop out of law school due to the influence of National Socialism and was soon, against his mother’s wishes, a member...
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75German Cinema: Nazi Films and the Lessons We Can Learn
This is an overview of few of the films that arose from the Nazi Regime. It overviews some of the directors and their work.
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71German Cinema: Nazi Control Reshapes the Industry
This is an overview of the impact the Nazis had on German Cinema. It highlights some of the motivations and consequences of the regime takeover and how it impacted the then booming industry.
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71Is Water-boarding TORTURE?
I’m not sure why I haven’t written on this subject up until now. There is a part of me that sits in disbelief when I hear the topic on the news or in discussion. There is a part of me that thinks how can we even be discussing this topic as an...
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75Downfall: A Film Review
"Es ist aus. Der Krieg ist verloren..." The greatest movies are those that capture, torture and then motivate your mind. Out of well documented tragedies of the past century, two places always evoke my imagination: Petrograd of 1917 and Berlin of...
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63The Thule Society to whom Hitler came ?
The Thule Society was founded by Baron von Sebbetendorf during the First World War. He enlisted 250 members in München and another 1,500 elsewhere in Bavaria. Among the members were journalists, poets,...
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78Ian Kershaws the End
After almost 40 years, Ian Kershaw has written what he says is "the last thing I do on the Nazis" (Moss). It is fitting that this last work of his in the field focuses on the last days of the Third Reich between the failure of the Stauffenberg plot...
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54Hubmovies Review: Downfall (2004)
It is unlikely that any film involving the most infamous of all tyrants, Adolf Hitler, could not attract much controversy from every society, for as long as his heinous crimes are remembered with great sorrow and anger. Therefore it was no surprise...
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