ATROCITY PROPAGANDA/PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE
In order to wage a war, the first battle fought is for the hearts and minds of your own people. Naturally, the inherent violent nature of war brings about great psychological resistance in civilized nations.
To break this resistance, patriotism is not enough to make the public h@te the enemy. I can love my country and object to war. But if I made to h@te my enemy, I am psychologically invested in their destruction.
To manufacture h@te, there can be no ambiguity as to who the enemy is. Moreover, they must appear as the vile, murd€rous aggressor. To satisfy these requirements, propaganda has been the historical tool of the trade.
Atrocity propaganda is the weaponization of compassion, using your emotions to cloud your judgment and reason. To accomplish this feat, nothing pulls on the heart strings quite like an atrocity. Where there is none, a well placed lie reverberates through the hearts and minds of the masses.
On April 18, 1945, following the liberation of Buchenwald, several commanders ordered that local civilians from the neighboring city of Weimar be rounded up and forced to take a tour of the camp. The reason for this forced tour that was sold to the public was so that they could "see for themselves the horror, brutality and human indecency that they had supported"
However, there was a more sinister agenda at play. Upon their arrival at the camp, the civilians were escorted to a carefully curated display table where they were shown lampshades made out of "human" skin, shrunken heads, and soap stamped with "R.I.F." which they were told stood for "Rein-jüdisches-Fett" or "pure Jewish fat. " These sight of these items caused a visceral reaction to all who saw them, and their horrified visage is captured by the camera as they walked past.
The depravity of someone making lampshades and parchment out of human skin is enough to churn the stomach of anyone. The idea of soap being made from the fat of human corpses is unconscionable. The only problem with these stories? They weren't true. What these people were forced to witness was a carefully crafted, premeditated lie.
General Lucius D. Clay, Commander in Chief of U.S. Forces in Europe and Military Governor of the U.S. Occupation Zone of Germany in 1948 found that the lampshade charge was baseless, and there were no articles made of human skin. Moreover, the items that had been shown were actually made from goat skin.
The "human soap" that was shown stamped with RIF actually stood for Reichsstelle für industrielle Fettversorgung ("National Center for Industrial Fat Provisioning", the German government agency which was responsible for the wartime production and distribution of soap and washing products). RIF soap was a poor quality substitute for soap and did not contain any fat, human or otherwise
Yet, the damage had already been done. The lie was carried in the hearts and minds of all those who bore witness, and it has echoed throughout the last 80 years. The atrocity propaganda that was deployed that day in 1945 created a lie that has been endlessly repeated over the last 8 decades and is on record as a part of the testimonies given under oath and admitted as evidence during the Nuremberg trials. The soap and lampshades lie is still repeated to this day as a testament to the horrors of the holocaust.
No matter how many times it has been disproven by historians and scholars, the lie persists.
Furthermore, after 1945, there was no longer a question about the need for a jewish state or any resistance or opposition to the billions paid out in reparations by Germany that would ultimately fund the construction of Israel 3 years later.
In order to wage a war, the first battle fought is for the hearts and minds of your own people. Naturally, the inherent violent nature of war brings about great psychological resistance in civilized nations.
To break this resistance, patriotism is not enough to make the public h@te the enemy. I can love my country and object to war. But if I made to h@te my enemy, I am psychologically invested in their destruction.
To manufacture h@te, there can be no ambiguity as to who the enemy is. Moreover, they must appear as the vile, murd€rous aggressor. To satisfy these requirements, propaganda has been the historical tool of the trade.
Atrocity propaganda is the weaponization of compassion, using your emotions to cloud your judgment and reason. To accomplish this feat, nothing pulls on the heart strings quite like an atrocity. Where there is none, a well placed lie reverberates through the hearts and minds of the masses.
On April 18, 1945, following the liberation of Buchenwald, several commanders ordered that local civilians from the neighboring city of Weimar be rounded up and forced to take a tour of the camp. The reason for this forced tour that was sold to the public was so that they could "see for themselves the horror, brutality and human indecency that they had supported"
However, there was a more sinister agenda at play. Upon their arrival at the camp, the civilians were escorted to a carefully curated display table where they were shown lampshades made out of "human" skin, shrunken heads, and soap stamped with "R.I.F." which they were told stood for "Rein-jüdisches-Fett" or "pure Jewish fat. " These sight of these items caused a visceral reaction to all who saw them, and their horrified visage is captured by the camera as they walked past.
The depravity of someone making lampshades and parchment out of human skin is enough to churn the stomach of anyone. The idea of soap being made from the fat of human corpses is unconscionable. The only problem with these stories? They weren't true. What these people were forced to witness was a carefully crafted, premeditated lie.
General Lucius D. Clay, Commander in Chief of U.S. Forces in Europe and Military Governor of the U.S. Occupation Zone of Germany in 1948 found that the lampshade charge was baseless, and there were no articles made of human skin. Moreover, the items that had been shown were actually made from goat skin.
The "human soap" that was shown stamped with RIF actually stood for Reichsstelle für industrielle Fettversorgung ("National Center for Industrial Fat Provisioning", the German government agency which was responsible for the wartime production and distribution of soap and washing products). RIF soap was a poor quality substitute for soap and did not contain any fat, human or otherwise
Yet, the damage had already been done. The lie was carried in the hearts and minds of all those who bore witness, and it has echoed throughout the last 80 years. The atrocity propaganda that was deployed that day in 1945 created a lie that has been endlessly repeated over the last 8 decades and is on record as a part of the testimonies given under oath and admitted as evidence during the Nuremberg trials. The soap and lampshades lie is still repeated to this day as a testament to the horrors of the holocaust.
No matter how many times it has been disproven by historians and scholars, the lie persists.
Furthermore, after 1945, there was no longer a question about the need for a jewish state or any resistance or opposition to the billions paid out in reparations by Germany that would ultimately fund the construction of Israel 3 years later.
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