“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
Joseph Goebbels, Reichsminister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945
It has been said that the ability to perpetuate myths is one of the most powerful cultural catalysts: newspapers, cable T.V, and now the internet all play [...]
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Recently new archival material has been uncovered that sheds light on a previously unsubstantiated rumor. Mussolini-also known as Il Duce-was for a short period of time in the employment of British MI-5. According to Cambridge historian Peter Martland, who discovered details of the deal struck with the future dictator, said: “Britain’s least reliable ally in [...]
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