Herman Goering on the efficacy of terror…
How long ago where these words uttered 60 years ago, They did a thorough job on the people of America, these thugs in the White House didn't they 
I havn’t seen this in quite a while, but someone posted it over at 4rthur.com; part of a conversation between Herman Goering and G.M. Gilbert (The prison psychologist at Nuremberg) prior to sentencing at Nuremberg.
“We got around to the subject of war again and I said that, contrary to his attitude, I did not think that the common people are very thankful for leaders who bring them war and destruction.
“Why, of course, the people don’t want war,” Goering shrugged. “Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.”
“There is one difference,” I pointed out. “In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.”
“Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”
Full Transcript of the Nuremberg Diary here.
Really makes you think huh?
Link Here
DOCUMENT NO. 3593 PS OFFICE OF U.S. CHIEF OF COUNSEL
Interrogation of Hermann Goering
(taken at Nurnberg, Germany on 13 October 1945 at 1045 by Dr. R.M. Kempner)
I havn’t seen this in quite a while, but someone posted it over at 4rthur.com; part of a conversation between Herman Goering and G.M. Gilbert (The prison psychologist at Nuremberg) prior to sentencing at Nuremberg.
“We got around to the subject of war again and I said that, contrary to his attitude, I did not think that the common people are very thankful for leaders who bring them war and destruction.
“Why, of course, the people don’t want war,” Goering shrugged. “Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.”
“There is one difference,” I pointed out. “In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.”
“Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”
Full Transcript of the Nuremberg Diary here.
Really makes you think huh?
Link Here
DOCUMENT NO. 3593 PS OFFICE OF U.S. CHIEF OF COUNSEL
Interrogation of Hermann Goering
(taken at Nurnberg, Germany on 13 October 1945 at 1045 by Dr. R.M. Kempner)
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