re: #47 Charles Johnson

To make my point clear, if an uncensored propaganda outlet like YouTube had been available in World War II, I have no doubt the Third Reich would have made full use of it to justify their mass murder.

They had newspapers and newsreels and Axis Sally. They had the means to communicate what they were doing to their own people and to anyone with a radio who was willing to listen.

But they didn’t justify it, nor even admit it. Not to their own populace at large, and certainly not to the wider world. They may have considered themselves in the right in their own minds, (but who knows? maybe they knew full well who they were and what they were up to and that it was way wrong) but they definitely knew that the wider world would disapprove and they calculated that the publicity would not work to their advantage.