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Just in case somebody starts quoting Hitler in attempt to appear sophisticated, this quote is actually misattributed. Moreover, variations of this quote were actually said by Hitler and Goebbels, but about the Jews and anti-German propaganda, not themselves (see big lie). Indeed, why would Hitler say anything incriminating himself publicly enough, so it could be quoted much later?
ok I changed the qutoe. I didn't actually look at the background of the quote just the idea of it. The idea is that it is taking advantage of the fact that due to the Availability heuristic, Representativeness heuristic etc., ideas that are more vivid are going to be more likely to be believed. Of course, it didn't mention this, but you would also need to limit the dissemination of contrary information