Reading it was a big wake up call for me too. At first I thought "Well if they're vilifying Trump so much, I'm sure that happened a lot in the past too" and tried reading it with an open mind. I found myself nodding a lot when he was decrying how awful journalists are. A lot of the specific German politics at the time lost me though.
For anybody interested in more I would suggest watching The Greatest Story Never Told. Still take it as propaganda of course, but the other side of the media and hollywood entertainment.
Reading it was a big wake up call for me too. At first I thought "Well if they're vilifying Trump so much, I'm sure that happened a lot in the past too" and tried reading it with an open mind. I found myself nodding a lot when he was decrying how awful journalists are. A lot of the specific German politics at the time lost me though.
For anybody interested in more I would suggest watching The Greatest Story Never Told. Still take it as propaganda of course, but the other side of the media and hollywood entertainment.
Reading it was a big wake up call for me too. At first I thought "Well if they're vilifying Trump so much, I'm sure that happened a lot in the past too" and tried reading it with an open mind. I found myself nodding a lot when he was decrying how awful journalists are. A lot of the specific German politics at the time lost me though.