Adolf Hitler 'planned propaganda cable TV'

[JawJaw]

From UK Daily Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/3239289/Adolf-Hitler-planned-propaganda-cable-TV.html




By Chris Irvine
Last Updated: 9:22AM BST 22 Oct 2008

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler and the Nazis were working on a Big Brother-style cable television propaganda industry to be broadcast across Germany.

Plans for the system were first found when Soviet soldiers entered Berlin but have recently been reexamined by researchers for a new Russian documentary.

The Orwellian screens would have been set up in public places and would show "people's television", depicting how the Aryan race should live, with the Nazis focusing on news, sport and education.

Ideas included building rooms beside laundries so women could gather round the TV to watch the broadcasts.

Prototype programmes included Family Chronicles: An Evening with Hans and Gelli, which was an early reality TV show depicting a wholesome Aryan life of a young German couple.

Engineer Walter Burch was asked to make the idea a reality, and tabled a document to Hitler called "Plan to supply people's transmitter to German homes" which would result in the laying of a broadband cable between Berlin and Nuremberg.

Other plans included showing footage of executions of Nazi traitors




Fascinating stuff!

Of course, such a propaganda channel would never survive, would it.....;) :think:

[Greeby]

1. Too easy nt

[JawJaw]

4. Heheh

The scheduling does look strangely familiar, doesn't it...

[countingbluecars]

2. What is the German word for fox? nt

[Junkdrawer]

5. Limbaugh n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. ...

:spray:

[Botany]

8. Fox

n/t

[spinbaby]

24. Fuchs

Which curiously resembles a naughty English word.

[Matariki]

25. Der Fuchs

So fitting...

:rofl:

[madokie]

3. seems to be working pretty well here

[YOY]

7. Soviets used some similary propaganda-ish stuff themselves.

Never to the level and type that resembles FOX so well though.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

9. Der Comcastenzie.

[NickB79]

22. LOL!!!

It all makes sense now.

[supernova]

10. Sorta makes sense

When have the GOP fascist wannabes ever come up with an original idea?

[Union Thug]

11. The irony is that we get much of the same type of programming in our own media

it may be tacit, but the messaging is there - Madison Ave and their staffs of cognitive scientists and psychologists have us buying shit we don't need with money that we don't have, and engineering our perceptions of success, society and our place within it.

[JawJaw]

13. Edward Bernays has a lot to answer for... n/t

[FredStembottom]

12. ...and they "got 'er done" with radio.

The Volksempfaenger:





All Fuehrer, all the time!

(These images from: Phil's Old Radios. Read more about the Volksempfaenger there - and enjoy one of the best web-sites on the entire Internets! http://antiqueradio.org/VolksempfaengerVE301dyn.htm)

[Neshanic]

14. Meanwhile at Fox, new memo instructs announcers to call viewers "cousins".

[originalpckelly]

15. By the way, Fox in German is Fuchs.

:rofl:

Fuchs News from now on. :P

[Liberal In Texas]

18. Damn you beat me to it!

[Liberal In Texas]

16. Were they going to call it FUCHS?

(German for FOX.)

[Swamp Rat]

17. Mishun akomplisht

[Minnesota_Lib]

19. So exactly when did these plans fall into young Mr. Murdoch''s hands?

[Adsos Letter]

20. German's were already subject to a constant stream of propaganda...

through the ubiquitous "people's radio," inexpensive, broadly distributed radio receivers designed to make Nazi propaganda a constant backdrop in the workplace, etc.

One can only imagine what they would have done with TV... :puke:

[NickB79]

21. Apparently rocket scientists weren't the only Germans we brought back to the US

[Initech]

23. I'm sure Josef Goebbels never dreamed of anything like Fox News.

[kenny blankenship]

26. Of course, such a propaganda channel would never survive, would it...

Not unless there were 500 of them!

[Oeditpus Rex]

27. Here's a still from the first experimental broadcast:

[peekaloo]

28. Hitler said "It's good for what Ailes you".

No?