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I did not know the origin of the quote (lemmy.world)
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[–] habitualTartare@lemmy.world 64 points 8 months ago (4 children)

The origin of the quote is not Goebbels.

Someone else has traced the quotation to a novel by Upton Sinclair in The Profits of Religion (do a books.google.com search for the phrase and you will find it.

In short, it is highly unlikely that Goebbels said this. As is usually the case with such quotations, no one who cites it provides a source.

Randall Bytwerk, expert in Nazi propaganda (Prof. Randall Bytwerk)

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/30683/is-if-you-have-nothing-to-hide-you-have-nothing-to-fear-a-line-used-by-joseph#40126

[–] _cnt0@sh.itjust.works 48 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The problem with quotes from the internet is, that you cannot rely on their accuracy.

  • Abraham Lincoln, 1864
[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

wow that guy was really ahead of his time

[–] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Heh. Ahead, you say?

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 5 points 8 months ago

it's true, I was his hat

[–] GabrielBell12fi@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Eh. I still think "bureaucracy is the price we pay for impartiality" was said by Stalin :)

[–] squid_slime@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

what i had found is the quite is most often tied to authoritarian regimes through out history and the nazi's did use the quite but had not created it