Not the first year on the network has been a statement attributed to the propaganda of the Third Reich to the Reichs minister, and today it sounds in unison with the rhetoric of a number of authoritarian regimes. We checked whether Joseph Goebbels spoke like this.

Completely quote, sounding, as often indicated, “At the opening of the Ministry of Propaganda (RPL) on March 12, 1933,” looks like this: “Our democratic scribblers and oppositionists are pouring our country with mud, working out the money that the West pays them. These oppositionists exist for US money and are obedient dogs of their overseas owners; It is no secret that all the so -called "opposition" - the enemies of our people - are financed by the Plutocratic West, live on their handouts. "

This statement is called a quote by Goebbels and many Internet resources, among which "Ukrainian truth","In the west.ru","Sneplus" And "Picabu", And users of social networks (Telegram, Twitter, "VKontakte"). It was given by such famous people as a producer Alexander Rodnyansky, oppositionist Gennady Gudkov, financier Glory to Rabinovich, blogger Dmitry Chernyshev (mi3ch), writer and journalist Nikolai Kononov, journalist Mikhail Sokolov and political strategist Konstantin Kalachev. And although most often the quote is used to conduct parallels between the state rhetoric of the Third Reich and the modern Russian Federation and Belarus, the Belarusian propagandist Grigory Azarinok described This is a statement as a "brilliant."

Let's start with the circumstances in which, stated, Goebbels's quote was uttered. RPL (Reichspropagandaleitung) is not a Ministry of Propaganda, but a structure within the Nazi party (NSDAP) for working with the press, cinema, radio and education system. As a party body, it has existed since 1926, even before the National Socialists arrived in power, and later remained formally independent of the Ministry of Education and Propaganda of the Reich. And here Last really founded on March 13 (not 12), 1933, shortly after Victory NSDAP in the elections. The department was headed by Paul Joseph Goebbels, at that time the youngest member of the Cabinet of Ministers in Hitler's government.

About Goebbels's activities in those days can be traced on his diary. On March 11, he talked with workers in the Berlin Park of Luustgarten (the text of this speech, apparently, was not preserved). On March 12, he participated in mourning events in honor of the fallen in the First World War, stood next to Hitler when he performed on the radio. On March 13, he announced his appointment, and the next day he swore to the Reichsprezident of Hindenburg. Finally, on March 15, Goebbels held a press conference dedicated to his new work in the capital's hotel Kaiserkhof. The speech made there later entered Collection “The revolution of the Germans. 14 years of national socialism. " However, neither this text, nor the transcript of other speeches for 1929-1933, which formed the collection, contain the references of "democratic scribblers living on the handouts of the West." We could not find anything similar in others publications With the performances and diaries of Goebbels, in his propaganda text "30 articles about the war for the German people", as well as on the site Bundesarchive. Moreover, neither in German, nor in English, the statement is practically not found on the network.

Some Internet users admit that the real author of the phrase is not Goebbels, but Adolf Hitler. Supporters of this version note Similarity between the quote checked and The words of the FuhrerSounded in a conversation with politician Hans Ritter von Lex on March 13, 1933, but readers themselves can make sure that this similarity is very distant.

Another thing is the history of the use of quotes in Russian. The oldest preserved mention of the phrase dates back to 2007, when it appeared on forum Belarusian analytical newspaper "Secret research". At the same time, the user who mentioned it referred to the message from the administrator of the forum Vadim Dekhinsky, judging by the chronology, on December 29, 2006. This message was deleted five years later, in December 2011, today only an empty field remained from it.

What is the reason for this removal? It turns out that a few days before this action, the user of the Living Journal Labas (Igor Petrov), the author of the series of publications "Service of the lost quotes", released his own investigation, in which he found out that at that time the DEVINSKYA message still existing was the first case of mentioning not only this, but a whole group of quotes signed by the names of Goebbels, Hitler, Mussolini and Franco. These quotes, which Disractible Along with a collection, as indicated, as indicated, “from the books of V. Koha” Anatomy of fascism (Prague, 1999. P. 11, 216, 217) and A. D. Grishin and V. S. Kravchenko, “Fascism in Europe” (Moscow, 1992. P. 55) were taken. Both of these books never existed, which is proved even by a runaway search for the World Wide Web.

Even before the investigation of Petrov, one of the users contacted Vadim Dekhinsky, part -time editor -in -chief of the newspaper Secret Research, and this is what the one answered: “As far as I remember, these quotes are taken from the letter of our reader, written by his hand (more precisely, the reader sent us his article, but we did not publish it because of its politicization, I brought excerpts in the post). Perhaps, when reading his handwriting, I incorrectly brought some letters. I did not check these quotes, trusting the author of the letter-a very serious person, especially since in context everything seems normal, and I met somewhere somewhere before. Well, most importantly, I didn’t have to check these quotes, since I was not going to use them in any publication (and, of course, I would have checked if I wanted to use them in some article). ”

Then, in the spring of 2008, Delainsky argued that there was also a certain unknown speech by Goebbels of March 12, 1933, but five days after the investigation of Igor Petrov, which contained good evidence of the opposite, deleted the initial message with the selection. We add that some other quotes from that selection in fact were in no way related to the authors indicated under them.

Thus, according to Vadim Dekhinsky, who first published them, the primary source of the whole series of statements was an article by an unknown reader with reference to non -existent books.

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