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Sounds familiar? Except have access to the Internet, so there is no excuse for them.

> Ruth Maier, an Austrian Jew who has escaped nazis to Norway, but who will die in fas chambers in Aushwitz some two years from now, writes in her diary of some german soldiers telling locals that the poles had killed sixty thousand german civilians in Poland before germany invaded Poland to protect the rest of them. The Norwegian local asked the soldiers if they really believe that they're in Norway to "protect" the Norwegians as they now say in the newspapers. The soldiers said that they indeed are in Norway from the British. And this they do believe. We've talked both in this series and in the about the impact of propaganda. While to the rest of the world the invasion of Poland was a dasterdly act of unwarranted aggression, but to an average german citizen it was justified, or even necessary because the Poles were killing all the ethnic germans in Poland and planned to invade Germany. I mean, that's what the radio and newspaper was telling them about every day for the whole last Summer. I mean, they wouldn't lie about it, right? Why would anyone lie about it.

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