Curt Martin Riess Quotes

Curt Martin Riess was a German journalist and writer.

Reiss was born of Jewish-German origins in Wurzburg, Germany, and later fled in 1933 to Paris, France not long after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933. Riess received his higher education in Berlin, Munich, Heidelberg, Zurich and Paris, with an emphasis on literature and economics. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. June 1902 – 1993
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Curt Martin Riess Quotes

“Nobody knew better than Goebbels that a Propaganda Ministry was almost a contradiction in terms. Propaganda is the more effective the less people know that they are supposed to be influenced, and vice versa.”

Curt Martin Riess

Source: Total Espionage: Germany’s Information and Disinformation Apparatus 1932-41 (1941), Joseph Goebbels: A Biography (1948), p. 101

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