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The Big Lie
A big lie is a propaganda technique used for political purpose. Big Lie may also refer to: Books * ''The Big Lie'', a 1991 children's novel by David Day * ''The Big Lie'', a 2008 book by Anthony Neilson * ''The Big Lie'', 2015 novel by Julie Mayhew which won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History * ''The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left'', a 2017 book by Dinesh D'Souza * ''The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020'', a 2022 book by Jonathan Lemire Film and television * ''The Big Lie'' (1951 film), a US Army anti-communist propaganda film * ''The Big Lie'' (1956 film) (Spanish: La gran mentira), a Spanish film directed by Rafael Gil * ''The Big Lie'' (2012 film) , an Israeli social drama film * "The Big Lie", a 1992 pilot episode of ''McGee and Me!'' * "The Big Lie", a 1999 episode of '' Voltron: The Third Dimension'' Music * "The Big Lie", a song by Gigolo Aunts Gigolo Aunts are an American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Lie
A big lie (german: große Lüge) is a gross distortion or misrepresentation of the truth, used especially as a propaganda technique. The German expression was coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his book '' Mein Kampf'' (1925), to describe the use of a lie so colossal that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously." Hitler claimed that the technique had been used by Jews to blame Germany's loss in on German general Erich Ludendorff, who was a prominent nationalist political leader in the Weimar Republic. According to historian Jeffrey Herf, the Nazis used the idea of the original big lie to turn sentiment against Jews and justify the Holocaust. Herf maintains that Joseph Goebbels and the Nazi Party actually used the big lie technique that they describedand that they used it to turn long-standing antisemitism in Europe into mass murder. Herf further argues that the Nazis' big lie was their depiction of Germany as an i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
