Если кто не понимает о чем @Miha пишет и задается вопросом - как и почему кто-то может так рассуждать, то ответ очень простой - ничего оригиналъного в его словах нет. Это просто перевод того, что уже произошло 70+ лет назад.
Просто почитайте то что написано вот здесь и вы поймете что это слово в слово то, что пишет @Miha.
https://owlspace-ccm.rice.edu/access/content/user/mab3/justifyingawar.html
( К сожалению по русски найти не смог, ибо в ру-нете о Германии часто неверно пишут)
Просто почитайте то что написано вот здесь и вы поймете что это слово в слово то, что пишет @Miha.
https://owlspace-ccm.rice.edu/access/content/user/mab3/justifyingawar.html
( К сожалению по русски найти не смог, ибо в ру-нете о Германии часто неверно пишут)
Whenever Hitler wanted to launch a military campaign against any enemy in Europe, he needed the help of his Propaganda Ministry to justify it to a German people who were not extremely fond of the idea of a long drawn out war. Hitler began easing the people�s minds by appealing to the sense of embarrassment he said Germany had felt since the end of World War I and the Treaty of Versailles. He repeated that the treaty humiliated Germany and reduced it to a diminutive state that was threatened by ever encroaching enemies inside Europe. In April of 1938, Hitler accused Czechoslovakia and Poland of being bridges for the Soviet Union and Communism to attack Germany. Hitler soon made it his military priority to capture Poland and eliminate any Communist and anti-German ideas from coming across his borders. But to do this, he must first eliminate the Czechoslovakian threat, however small it was. His main point of interest was the Sudetenland, the area nearest to Germany that was comprised of a majority ethnic German population. ..... To smooth the transition, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels gave several speeches on the subject, in which he claimed that the Czechoslovakian government had asked Germany to do this and that the annexation would be good for both the German and Czechoslovakian people. Ironically, Czechoslovakian leaders were neither invited nor consulted during the conference in Munich.
Germany Invades Poland
With Czechoslovakia in hand, Hitler turned his attention to his attack on Poland. To shift the blame for the attack on Poland, Goebbels created false reports claiming that there were anti-German rallies taking place across the Polish border in the town of Danzig. In these rallies, Goebbels claimed that the Polish citizens were singing anti-German songs and burning Hitler in effigy. It was only natural then, that the Germans should increase their military presence on the Polish-German border. Despite the ominous, and illegal, German military building on the Polish border, Hitler maintained the lie that his intentions for Poland were still peaceful, but that an invasion might be necessary to suppress the anti-German activities across the border. On August 31, 1939, the Germans launched Operation Himmler, their plan to give the appearance to the rest of the world that Germany had been attacked by the Polish. This propaganda move involved several false attacks launched by �Polish� soldiers. These attacks were in fact staged by the Germans, complete with murdered concentration camp inmates dressed in Polish uniforms. This was all that Goebbels needed in order to convince the German people that Germany needed to invade Poland as a defensive maneuver. The next morning, Germany launched its �counteroffensive� and rolled through Poland almost unscathed. Goebbels used this immediate success to make the people believe that a quick skirmish would be all that was needed to solve the Polish problem. This was an immensely popular idea because the German people did not want a long and drawn out war over something that they felt was a minor inconvenience. In his speech on New Year Eve 1939, Goebbels called the war �a war for our national existence� and called for the entire nation to rise up and unite against the Western powers. Goebbels tried to explain to the people that war had been a last resort and that it should all be over soon. At the same time however, Hitler was drawing up his own plans that would determine the extent of the war.
Hitler Looks West
Almost immediately following his capture of Poland, Hitler wanted to turn his attention to Western Allies. After some convincing from his top aides, including Goebbels, Hitler decided to wait until the following spring to turn his attention to the west. This gave Goebbels time to ease the German people�s minds towards the idea of aggression against the West. This proved to be more difficult than Goebbels imagined because the German people did not really want the war to drag on into the next year. However, Goebbels pointed out the �fact� that France was coercing the other European countries into encircling Germany to apply diplomatic pressure. Goebbels also preached on the technological, spiritual, and moral superiority of the German race as reasons why any campaign against any enemy would be brief, just as the German people wanted. However, once the campaign against France began in May 1940, the German people had such an inflated idea of success that any minor setback on the road to Paris was seen as nearly catastrophic. This was never truer than when Germany ran into the roadblock to European supremacy that was Great Britain. At this point, Hitler�s hands were tied. Goebbels warned him that the people would not support the increased aggression Hitler saw necessary to overthrow the island empire. Goebbels tried to tell the people that �a worldwide empire, such as the British, does not collapse in a matter of weeks�, but this did not help. What the Germans needed came in the form of devastating Allied air raids on Hamburg and Berlin. The German people had suffered directly at the hands of the British and would now support Hitler�s Battle of Britain, which he launched midway through 1940.
With Czechoslovakia in hand, Hitler turned his attention to his attack on Poland. To shift the blame for the attack on Poland, Goebbels created false reports claiming that there were anti-German rallies taking place across the Polish border in the town of Danzig. In these rallies, Goebbels claimed that the Polish citizens were singing anti-German songs and burning Hitler in effigy. It was only natural then, that the Germans should increase their military presence on the Polish-German border. Despite the ominous, and illegal, German military building on the Polish border, Hitler maintained the lie that his intentions for Poland were still peaceful, but that an invasion might be necessary to suppress the anti-German activities across the border. On August 31, 1939, the Germans launched Operation Himmler, their plan to give the appearance to the rest of the world that Germany had been attacked by the Polish. This propaganda move involved several false attacks launched by �Polish� soldiers. These attacks were in fact staged by the Germans, complete with murdered concentration camp inmates dressed in Polish uniforms. This was all that Goebbels needed in order to convince the German people that Germany needed to invade Poland as a defensive maneuver. The next morning, Germany launched its �counteroffensive� and rolled through Poland almost unscathed. Goebbels used this immediate success to make the people believe that a quick skirmish would be all that was needed to solve the Polish problem. This was an immensely popular idea because the German people did not want a long and drawn out war over something that they felt was a minor inconvenience. In his speech on New Year Eve 1939, Goebbels called the war �a war for our national existence� and called for the entire nation to rise up and unite against the Western powers. Goebbels tried to explain to the people that war had been a last resort and that it should all be over soon. At the same time however, Hitler was drawing up his own plans that would determine the extent of the war.
Hitler Looks West
Almost immediately following his capture of Poland, Hitler wanted to turn his attention to Western Allies. After some convincing from his top aides, including Goebbels, Hitler decided to wait until the following spring to turn his attention to the west. This gave Goebbels time to ease the German people�s minds towards the idea of aggression against the West. This proved to be more difficult than Goebbels imagined because the German people did not really want the war to drag on into the next year. However, Goebbels pointed out the �fact� that France was coercing the other European countries into encircling Germany to apply diplomatic pressure. Goebbels also preached on the technological, spiritual, and moral superiority of the German race as reasons why any campaign against any enemy would be brief, just as the German people wanted. However, once the campaign against France began in May 1940, the German people had such an inflated idea of success that any minor setback on the road to Paris was seen as nearly catastrophic. This was never truer than when Germany ran into the roadblock to European supremacy that was Great Britain. At this point, Hitler�s hands were tied. Goebbels warned him that the people would not support the increased aggression Hitler saw necessary to overthrow the island empire. Goebbels tried to tell the people that �a worldwide empire, such as the British, does not collapse in a matter of weeks�, but this did not help. What the Germans needed came in the form of devastating Allied air raids on Hamburg and Berlin. The German people had suffered directly at the hands of the British and would now support Hitler�s Battle of Britain, which he launched midway through 1940.