Hitler quote (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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One doesn't have to be a Republican (and I'm not) to find DAD's comment
to be beneath the dignity of this list.

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> Hmph. Hitler was a Republican? Not a surprise.
> DAD
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> Not in YBQ.  Venerable and occasionally quoted, if not confirmed
genuine by
> me:
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> 1933 James Waterman Wise _Swastika: The Nazi Terror_ (N.Y.: Smith &
Haas) 33
> [GB Snippet]: "To win the sympathy of the broad masses," he wrote,
"you
> must *tell them the crudest and most stupid things*."
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> Note that what's crude and stupid may be perfectly true or cunningly
false.
> The point is to keep 'em entertained.
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> No further comment needed.
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> JL
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> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
truth."
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