• PugJesus@piefed.socialOPM
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    1 month ago

    I don’t think the Brits ever figured out if it was successful OR unsuccessful. Propaganda can be funny like that. XD

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      1 month ago

      This lie was repeated for years in American pop culture, so I think then and future generations of Americans fell for it more than the Germans did.

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      There’s evidence that the nazis at least knew about the claim, but everything I’ve ever found backs you up 100%, there’s no evidence that the nazis ever fell for or or dismissed it. I can’t imagine anyone gave it more than a minute’s thought though, like even back then it was pretty transparently silly.