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Behind the Aegis

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Tue Jun 19, 2018, 12:52 PM Jun 2018

(Jewish Group) Massachusetts High School Apologizes After Nazi Quote Is Printed in Yearbook

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

A Massachusetts high school student captioned his senior photo in the school’s yearbook with a quote generally attributed to the Nazi leaders Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Hitler, the school’s principal said in an apologetic letter to parents this week.

Hundreds of copies of the yearbook had been printed and distributed to students at Andover High School in Massachusetts before the school became aware of the problem and stopped selling the yearbook. The school is now offering to replace the page or cover the quote up with a sticker.

“We are appalled and angered that this quote was submitted, and I ask you to please accept my deepest apologies on behalf of our faculty, staff, and administration for the insertion of these words in the yearbook,” the principal, Philip Conrad, wrote in the letter. “Quoting a racist dictator bent on genocide or his minister of propaganda has no place in our school or our community and it is deeply upsetting to all of us.”

The quote, which reads “Make the lie big, keep it simple, keep saying it and eventually they will believe it,” is widely associated with Hitler and Goebbels’s use of propaganda to build the Nazi empire. The quote is not attributed in the yearbook, and appears in black text underneath the photo of the student, who has not been identified.

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(Jewish Group) Massachusetts High School Apologizes After Nazi Quote Is Printed in Yearbook (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Jun 2018 OP
Little bit of bad history here. MosheFeingold Jun 2018 #1

MosheFeingold

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1. Little bit of bad history here.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 02:30 PM
Jun 2018

The actual quote is Goebbels, and it is this:

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/joseph-goebbels-on-the-quot-big-lie-quot

Mr. Schicklgruber's (aka Adolf H) claimed this technique was used by Jewish to blame Germany's loss in World War I on German general Erich Ludendorff, who was a prominent nationalist and antisemitic political leader in the Weimar Republic.

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