Big lie
 Big lie(Propaganda)   | |
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A big lie (German: [Große Lüge] error: {{lang}}: text has italic markup (help)) is a propaganda technique. The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his 1925 book Mein Kampf, about the use of a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously." Hitler asserted the technique was used by Jews to unfairly blame Germany's loss in World War I on German Army officer Erich Ludendorff.
Official narrative
Wikipedia is correct to note that the expression featured in Adolf Hitler's biography, Main Kampf, and almost the whole article is focused on Nazi Germany; as of December 2015, there were only three sentences on usage elsewhere (about Frank Zappa and Thierry Meyssan respectively)
Modern relevance
Russ Baker asked in 2015: "How is it that a Big Lie of such magnitude could roll along, unflinchingly, after half a century?... It would seem there are more people who believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny than who believe Oswald did it alone."[1]
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
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| Truthdig | “I have studiously avoided blogging about “The U.S. government planned 9/11” conspiracy theories because, frankly, they strain credulity* (Editor’s note: I originally had written “…frankly, they’re crap; no government could keep a secret like that from leaking.” But as anything is theoretically possible, I decided to soften my statement); it seems unlikely to the extreme that the government could keep a secret like that from leaking.” | Blair Golson | 5 September 2006 |
