Keep in mind that propaganda wars can kill people. Les not forget that Hitler was able to turn his conspiracy theory ideas about what should happen to the Jews into reality. Germany pre-hitler's rise was a vibrant democracy with many political parties.
> Keep in mind that propaganda wars can kill people.
Quoting Albert Speer [1]:
> Albert Speer, Hitler's architect and later Minister for Armaments and War Production, later said the regime "made the complete use of all technical means for domination of its own country. Through technical devices like the radio and loudspeaker, 80 million people were deprived of independent thought."
and to quote Goebbels himself [2], i.e. the Nazis' propaganda minister:
> It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we have without the radio...It is no exaggeration to say that the German revolution, at least in the form it took, would have been impossible without the airplane and the radio…[Radio] reached the entire nation, regardless of class, standing, or religion. That was primarily the result of the tight centralization, the strong reporting, and the up-to-date nature of the German radio.
Vibrant democracy is probably an exaggeration. It was a fledgling democracy that didn't have much of a tradition of peaceful transfer of power. Opposing political parties regularly devolved into armed conflict.
