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Today we look at common myths and propaganda stories that have percolated down to our days.
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:00 - What is propaganda?
00:06:44 – Captain Lindemann survived the opening minutes of Bismarck’s last battle
00:12:12 - The French are ‘cheese eating surrender monkeys’ / can’t fight
00:25:43 - German ‘technological superiority’
00:33:16 - Britain ‘can’t design ships’
00:39:13 - Japanese/Italian’s ‘technologically backward’ in WW2
00:43:30 - USN AA superior to all throughout WW2
00:48:18 - Minimising effectiveness of weapons/systems/tactics (revisionism)
00:54:55 - Overly doing the counter to propaganda
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