Dienstag, 3. Februar 2009 18:14
Am 2. Februar 1943 hielt der in die USA emigrierte ehemalige Anzeigenleiter der Frankfurter Zeitung, Dr. Eric Woldemar Stoetzner in Philadelphia folgende hier im Original-Wortlaut wiedergegebene Rede. Sie kann als der früheste Versuch eines Re-education-Konzepts interpretiert werden, wie mit den Menschen im besiegten Deutschland nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg umzugehen sei.
Mehr Hintergrundinformationen dazu finden Sie in meinem Buch “Marken, Moden und Kampagnen”. Teile davon stehen auch als pdf-file zum direkten Download zur Verfügung. Zu Eric Woldemar Stoetzner vgl. auch den Text “Deutsch-amerikanischer Januskopf” von Rainer Gries und mir in “Das Parlament” stoetzner3551
The Coming Battle of Human Minds
(Quelle: Horst Fischer: Die Stoetzner-Story, München 1986, S. 161ff.)
We are all well aware of three dimensions of the present world wide conflict: the dimension of land and the battles that are occurring there; the dimension of the seas, and the hard fighting on and under the waters; and the third dimension of the air.
But there is a fourth dimension a fourth front of this war which we do not so easily recognize. It is the so called propaganda front, the front of human minds.
This is a front where the conflict will be most severe after the other three fronts have been won and the battles there have ceased.
This is the front where we must fight for a mutual understanding between ourselves and our defeated enemies if the peace which follows is to last.
It has always taken great effort for people on this side of the Atlantic to understand Europe even in normal times. Such understanding has become more difficult now after totalitarian propaganda has upset all values and proportions on the Continent.
Reports from Europe and from this country, too, indicate there is one recurring question:
“What about Germany after the War?”
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