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happydreams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 05:53 PM
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Hitler used "Readers Digest" to demoralize WWII American troops.
Mr. Wallace was forced to admit that after Dennis had published his overt fascist articles in the "American Mercury", which had earlier written articles favoring an American fascist party, he had been hired for editorial work on the "Readers Digest"."...Throughout the course of the war the Nazis made considerable use of the articles in the Digest becasue they were good for propaganda purposes. ....."American Mercury"
And the present writer has copies of "Der Westkaempfer", issue of January 30, 1945, containing one of the many anti-Russian articles the "Reader's Digest" printed which the Hitler propoganda machine reprinted for the purpose of undermining the morale of the American soldiers . ....

.....The Spanish fascist press, notably El Espanol of Madrid, reprinted one of the many Russia-baiting articles by Max Eastman, a "Reader's Digest editor who had formerly edited communist publications.




This is in book "1000 Americans" by hard-hitting muckraker George Seldes.
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Jed Dilligan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 05:55 PM
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1. I would be demoralized having to read anything in that rag. nt
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happydreams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 06:01 PM
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6. The Nazis tried real hard to divide the Allies. Near the end of the
war Allen Dulles assisted them and brought "good nazis" out of Germany that just were coincidently linked to his banking interests in Switzerland.
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Jed Dilligan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 06:03 PM
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8. And after the war, they succeeded beautifully
and many Waffen-SS officers took "good jobs" training anti-communist COIN forces in Latin America.
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 06:01 PM
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7. My favorite Harlan Ellison quote:
"Spiro Agnew masturbates with copies of The Readers Digest"

From 1968, Los Angeles Free Press.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 05:55 PM
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2. That would do it!
:)
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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 05:56 PM
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3. Whipped his nazi ass anyway!
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happydreams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 05:59 PM
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5. Slick you know nothing about this topic talking like that.
This is serious shit.
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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 06:23 PM
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12. You're right, I forgot the day the Wehrmacht paraded down Broadway
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cobalt1999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 05:57 PM
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4. Well the Cowboys demoralized him...
For those who haven't seen this classic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2triiYXSY8

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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 06:08 PM
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9. 'Facts and Fascism' is another great book by Seldes
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 06:12 PM
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10. I have an original of that book.
A treasure and an eye-opener.
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 06:15 PM
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11. Me too!
Found it at a second hand store years ago. :)

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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 07:46 PM
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13. Me too!
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 08:01 PM
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14. Well, the troops didn't use the Readers' Digest to READ!
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 08:06 PM
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15. Ahh shit!
:rofl: ah hahahahahahaha. :rofl:
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happydreams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 01:28 PM
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16. LOL!
:rofl:
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