“ROTTEN THING”
NAZI PROPAGANDA N.Z. TOURIST’S VIEW An interesting commentary on the effectiveness of Nazi propaganda is contained in a letter received by Mr. and Mrs. W. Lynch. Stortford Lodge, Hastings, from their son, Mr. D. Lynch, who visited Germany in the course of a bicycle tour of Europe just before the invasion of Poland.
“What a rotten thing is propaganda,” he writes. Tn Germany they believe most of what they read —of Hitler being a man of peace and Chamberlain a man of war, of Germany’s strength and England's weakness, and of Germany’s rights to colonies.’’
In. Poland the people believed that war would mean an early victory for hem because of internal German troubles, he said. The Poles seemed lo believe that war was inevitable. Further evidence of the Nazi antiBritish attitude was the fact that a train in whicli Mr. Lynch travelled notices were printed in four languages, German, French, Italian and Polish, but English was omitted. Mr. Lynch had the ‘strictness of military censorship in Poland brought home to him when he was detained at Plock, a Polish town just north-east of Warsaw, for taking photographs while travelling on a steamer on the iiiver Vistula.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20050, 23 September 1939, Page 2
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