Brainwash:
- -a forcible indoctrination to induce someone to give up basic political, social, or religious beliefs and attitudes and to accept contrasting regimented ideas
-to indoctrinate so intensively and thoroughly as to effect a radical transformation of beliefs and mental attitudes
-make someone believe something by repeatedly telling him or her that it is true and preventing any other information from reaching him or her.
Update:
"The OSS psychological profile of Hitler described his use of the big lie:
'His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.'"
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/joseph-goebbels-on-the-quot-big-lie-quot
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Dr Goebbels' big lie.
I had to look that one up, and found this attributed to him, along with the OSS description of Hitler that I placed in the post update:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/joseph-goebbels-on-the-quot-big-lie-quot
Also at the link, an alternative title for this post shows up: Falsehood & Calumny
Updated added:
The OSS psychological profile of Hitler described his use of the big lie:
"His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it."
Shades of Alinsky
JVL is an excellent source. They do their homework diligently.
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